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Twentieth-Century Suburbs A Morphological Approach
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 2001. The paperback released in 2014 is a reprint of the original** 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... Read more
Preface. 1. Conceptions of Suburbs. 2. The Scale and Causes of Suburban Growth. 3. The Anatomy of Suburbs. 4. Developers and Architects. 5. Post-War Change. 6. Change at the Microscale. 7. Conclusion. References. Index.
Biography
J.W.R Whitehand is a Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Birmingham. C.M.H Carr is a Lecturer in Planning at the University of Manchester.
'The language of the book is clear and mercifully free of jargon' RUDI (Resource for Urban Design Information)
