TOWNS, PLANS AND SOCIETY IN MODERN BRITAIN by Helen Meller ( 9780521576444 )

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TOWNS, PLANS AND SOCIETY IN MODERN BRITAIN

By:

Helen Meller

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 August, 1997

Series:

New Studies in Economic and Social History 31

Pages:

152

Description:

A concise survey of how, and why, the urban environment has changed in Britain over the past two centuries.

Synopsis:

In this concise survey, Helen Meller aims to explore the interaction of the social and physical environment of cities. All modern societies have experienced mass urbanisation, and have been subject to the economic, social and technological forces which have produced this urbanisation. Yet all towns and cities are not the same. The author points out that historical and cultural factors have played, and are still playing, an important part in shaping responses to these forces. This becomes even more clearly evident when the urban environment becomes subject to planning. Urban regeneration has facilitated not just an improvement in the physical environment of cities but in their economic and social fortunes as well. This study is an accessible analysis of the way in which social, cultural and physical factors have created the quality of life in British cities over the past two centuries.

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