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In 1970, the Architectural Press published New Lives, New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother's optimistic account of how the British landscape was materially transformed in the post-war decades. Reservoirs, power stations, television and radio-transmitter masts, electricity and telephone pylons, as well as local authority housing and new or improved roads, produced a new rurality. So too did state-subsidised agricultural intensification, wider public access to the countryside, and environmentally protective measures. These included landscape designations such as National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Central to Fairbrother's approach was the concomitant transformation in how British people interacted with these new landscapes in an age of increased mobility. This new edited collection of essays, New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain brings a fresh historical perspective to bear on Fairbrother's concerns. It examines how the changing relationship between government, state, and citizen gave rise to a distinct rural modernity during the middle decades of the twentieth century.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1: Linda M. Ross, Katrina Navickas, Matthew Kelly, and Ben Anderson: Introduction
2: Jeremy Burchardt: In-between Landscapes
3: Kristen Bluemel: Rural Modernity in Britain: Landscape, Literature, Nostalgia
4: Gareth Roddy: Seeing like a Quarryman: Landscape, Quarrying, and Competing Visions of Rural England along Hadrian's Wall, 1930-1960
5: Katrina Navickas: Building Amenity in Areas of Non-Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Southern Pennines
6: Ian Waites: The Post-war Power Station and the Persistence of an English Landscape Tradition
7: Moa Carlsson: England and the Isovist
8: Karen Sayer: The View from the Land, 1947-1968: 'Modernity' in British Agriculture, Farm, and Nation
9: Paul Readman: Landscape of Military Modernity: From 'Eyesores' to National Heritage?
10: Linda M. Ross: Nuclear Narratives: Rural Modernity, Identity, and Heritage in the Highlands and Islands
11: Ysanne Holt: Think Rural: Act Now
12: Ben Anderson and Matthew Kelly: What Happens When Rural Modernity Ceases to be Modern?
13: Tim O'Riordan: The New 'New Landscapes': A Personal View
Index