TY - BOOK AU - Wetherell,Sam TI - Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain SN - 9780691208558 AV - NA2543.S6 W458 2021 U1 - 720.103 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Architecture and society KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Architecture and society-Great Britain-History-20th century KW - Business parks KW - City planning KW - Housing KW - Industrial districts KW - Shopping centers KW - Sociology, Urban KW - HISTORY / Social History KW - bisacsh KW - Adam Page KW - Alison Ravetz KW - Alistair Kefford KW - Anna Minton KW - Boom Cities KW - Building Research Station KW - Catherine Flinn KW - Charlotte Wildman KW - Dawn Foster KW - England KW - Erika Rappaport KW - Frank Mort KW - Greater London KW - Guy Ortolano KW - Helen Meller KW - James Greenhalgh KW - James Meek KW - John Boughton KW - Jordanna Bailkin KW - Judith Walkowitz KW - Judy Giles KW - Kennetta Hammond Perry KW - Kieran Connell KW - Lewis Mumford KW - Margaret Thatcher KW - Municipal Dreams KW - Otto Saumerez Smith KW - Planning for Affluence KW - Reconstructing Modernity KW - Rosemary Wakeman KW - Sarah Mass KW - Simon Gunn KW - Stockley Park KW - Team Valley KW - Thatcher's Progress KW - United Kingdom KW - Victor Gruen KW - architectural engineering KW - architecture KW - business park KW - private housing estate KW - public housing KW - social engineering KW - social infrastructure KW - state-directed development KW - urban forms KW - urban history KW - urban infrastructure KW - urban landscape KW - urban planning KW - urban space N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Industrial Estate --; 2. The Shopping Precinct --; 3. The Council Estate --; 4. The Private Housing Estate --; 5. The Shopping Mall --; 6. The Business Park --; 7. Conclusion: The Burden of Obsolescence --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park. Sam Wetherell shows how these spaces transformed Britain’s politics, economy, and society, helping forge a midcentury developmental state and shaping the rise of neoliberalism after 1980.From the mid-twentieth century, spectacular new types of urban space were created in order to help remake Britain’s economy and society. Government-financed industrial estates laid down infrastructure to entice footloose capitalists to move to depressed regions of the country. Shopping precincts allowed politicians to plan precisely for postwar consumer demand. Public housing modernized domestic life and attempted to create new communities out of erstwhile strangers. In the latter part of the twentieth century many of these spaces were privatized and reimagined as their developmental aims were abandoned. Industrial estates became suburban business parks. State-owned shopping precincts became private shopping malls. The council estate was securitized and enclosed. New types of urban space were imported from American suburbia, and planners and politicians became increasingly skeptical that the built environment could remake society. With the midcentury built environment becoming obsolete, British neoliberalism emerged in tense negotiation with the awkward remains of built spaces that had to be navigated and remade.Taking readers to almost every major British city as well as to places in the United States and Britain’s empire, Foundations highlights how some of the major transformations of twentieth-century British history were forged in the everyday spaces where people lived, worked, and shopped UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691208558?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691208558 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691208558/original ER -