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Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939

Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939

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General SociologyGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1474257364
ISBN13: 9781474257367
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 22 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This open access book investigates the dramatic and ambitious programmes of urban regeneration by politicians and planners in Liverpool and Manchester.

Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 is the first book to provide the hitherto unknown story of the innovative transformation of these cities.

Charlotte Wildman challenges academic scholarship in British history, which associates the post-1918 period with the emasculation of local government and the decline of civic culture. She shows that local politicians, planners, architects, businessmen and even religious leaders embraced innovative trends in creating distinct forms of urban modernities, which particularly changed the way women experienced the transformed city. Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 offers a complex, interactive and multipolar interpretation of the ways cities develop, pointing to new methods and ways of understanding both interwar Britain and urban history more generally.

At a time of debate and discussion about devolution and decentralisation of government, this book makes an opportune contribution to debates about urban governance and regionalism in contemporary Britain.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University Manchester.

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