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

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

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Series: Routledge Revivals

General Architecture

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ISBN10: 1032947020
ISBN13: 9781032947020
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 1 2024
Pages: 272
Language: English

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 economic efficiency, and goes on to discuss the chief ways in which a remedy for these problems was sought in the later part of the century. Separate chapters are devoted to new model villages and towns to the spread of suburbs, and to the improvement of already established towns by means of clearance and rebuilding schemes, bye-law control, and efforts of private philanthropy. The final section of the book shows how the successes and failures of earlier attempts at reforms stimulated a demand for something more comprehensive, which found expression in the town planning act of 1909, and ends by considering the influences that brought to the town planning movement a new strength and importance in the 1930s and the war years.

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