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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Planning, history, and the environment series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Dedication; 1. Conceptions of Suburbs; The origins and growth of suburbs; The significance of the single-family house; Intellectuals' views; Professionals' views; Popular taste and the speculative builder; Reappraising suburbs; 2. The Scale and Causes of Suburban Growth; Socio-economic change and suburban growth; The financing of residential building; The role of transport; Regional variations; Inter-city variations; Suburban growth in London; Suburban growth in Birmingham; 3. The Anatomy of Suburbs.
- Controlling suburban formDwelling types; Architectural style; Unanswered questions; Sources and areas; The beginning of a morphological period; Proposed and actual development; How uniform?; The Tudor Walters Report and reality; Conclusion; 4. Developers and Architects; Landowners; Builders; Architects; Study roads; Builders: the study areas; Architects: the study areas; Conclusion; 5. Post-War Change; Background to change; Changes to town plan and dwelling density; Changes to individual dwellings; Some issues to be explored; Changes in dwelling density: Birmingham and London.
- Chronologies of changeInter-area variations in amounts of change; Development control; The agents of change; Conclusion; 6. Change at the Microscale; The study areas; Individual roads; Socio-demographic change; Physical change and socio-economic change; Occupier change and building change; The neighbour effect; The changing suburban landscape; Conclusion; 7. Conclusion; Scales of decision-taking; The wider historico-geographical context; The microscale; The morphological period; Planning history and the history of urban development; Myth and misrepresentation; The tyranny of the market.
- Agents and agencies of changeSystemic and adaptive change; Responsibility for the landscape; Landscape as a resource; Suburban sprawl, the compact city and urban regeneration; References; Index.