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The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning A Study in Economic and Social history...

272 Pages

by Routledge

272 Pages

by Routledge

272 Pages

by Routledge

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First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors which have made town planning one of the normal functions of government. The author begins with an examination of the rapid growth of towns in the nineteenth century and the consequent emergence of inescapable new problems of health, morality, and... Read more

Preface Introduction: The Economic and Social Factors in Town Planning Part I: The Problem 1. The Growth of Urban Population 2. The Process of Town Growth 3. Problems of Town Life and their Public Recognition Part II: The Search for a Solution 4. The Improvement of Central Urban Areas 5. The Creation of New Model Villages and Towns 6. Suburban Development Part III: A Town Planning Movement 7. The First Town Planning Act and its Origins 8. Approaches to Town Planning 1909- 1947 Select Bibliography Index of Place Names Index of Persons and Subjects

Author(s)

Biography

William Ashworth

Critics' Reviews

“Ashworth’s book, despite the subtitle is essentially a contribution to administrative history, treating the relation of governmental institutions and policies to the problems of town growth. This ‘institutional’ approach is salutary: it shows that British town planning is not the product of rationalistic social theory…”

-Eric E. Lampard, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 16, Issue 2 , June 1956 , pp. 269 - 271

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