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Twentieth-Century Suburbs : a Morphological Approach.

Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages. This book describes the ways i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carr, C. M. H.
Otros Autores: Whitehand, J. W. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Colección:Planning, history, and the environment series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages. This book describes the ways in which these suburbs were created, particularly by private enterprise in England in the 1920s and 1930s, the physical forms they took, and how they have changed over time in response to social, economic and cultural change. Twentieth-Century Suburbs is concerned with the history, geo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (441 pages)
ISBN:9781136411571
1136411577