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Bringing together architectural, urban and social historians, this book charts the extraordinary changes that took place in British cities between the end of the Second World War and the early 21st century. This ambitious volume captures something of their diversity through its multi-disciplinary approach, with a large spectrum of scales, exploring gentrification and multiculturalism, shopping and night life, as well as demography and statistics.
For much of the first two thirds of the 20th Century, what 'modern' meant in the British urban context was the purging of the Victorian past. Even so, much of the terraced housing and the monumental architecture of city centres still dated from the nineteenth century. Disdained by architectural critics in the first half of the twentieth century, structures like Covent Garden's Market Building, Manchester's Royal Exchange and Liverpool's Albert Dock would become pivots of the conservation and restoration movement which accompanied Britain's 'urban renaissance' from the 1970s onwards.
Nevertheless, a series of long-term historical processes combined to transform British cities after 1950. Mass automobility brought with it motorways, underpasses and flyovers. Deindustrialisation left a profound mark on large areas of urban Britain, with enduring consequences for the communities affected. Immigration not only brought more diverse people and voices to British cities than ever before, but with them, a fresh variety of stores, restaurants, places of worship and venues for entertainment. Likewise, urban planning and the fruits of consumerism left their mark in the ubiquitous presence of civic centres, shopping malls and cultural quarters. The book shows how these processes did not operate separately, but in complex inter-relationship with one another, often producing unintended outcomes.
The result was cities where the past and the present were juxtaposed, adding to rather than diminishing their sense of place. This book is intended to enable an understanding of why British cities are as they are in all their messiness and mutability.
Contents
Preface; 1. Introduction: From the Victorian City to the Modern City, Simon Gunn and Otto Saumarez Smith; Ideas in the Air. 2. Urbanism After the Victorian City, Guy Ortolano; 3. Fuelling the City, Divya Subramanian; 4. Visible Cities: A Screen Tour in Ten Scenes, John Wyver; 5. The Community Architecture Movement, Holly Smith. People on the Ground. 6. Shifting Visions of Working-Class Community in Post-War England, Jon Lawrence; 7. Multicultural British Cities, Elizabeth Buettner; 8. Gentrification, John Davis; 9. On Queer Street, Matt Cook; 10. Students and the City, Keith Vernon; 11. The Jogger, the Mugger and the Hipster, Peter Mandler. Sites and Places. 12. The Active Suburb, Laura Balderstone; 13. The Inner City and the Welfare State, Nicholas Bullock; 14. A City Hidden in Plain Sight: Planning and Architecture in Southampton, Owen Hatherley; 15. Conservation, Planning and Regeneration, John Pendlebury. The Urban Economy. 16. Market Places and Piazzas, Sarah Mass; 17. Ports and Port Cities, David Edgerton; 18. On the (King's) Road: The Best Street in London, Lawrence Black; 19. Redeveloping the City, Alastair Kefford; 20. The Unmaking of the Industrial City, Christopher Lawson. Everyday Politics. 21. Waiting, Queuing, Traffic and Delays in Northern Ireland in the Troubles, Erika Hanna; 22. Women's Activism and the Post-War City, Krista Cowman; 23. 'After the Rhythm Comes the Blues': Race, Racism and Urban Space in Notting Hill, Saima Nasar; 24. 'In the Workhouse'? Homelessness in London, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite; 25. Faith in the City, William Whyte. Border Crossings. 26. Travelling Through the City: Access for All? Colin Pooley; 27. Scrambled Towns, Otto Saumarez Smith; 28. Music and the Revival of Urban Night Life, Simon Gunn; 29. Afterword: The Five Phases of the Modern British City, Peter Mandler; Image Credits; Notes on Contributors; Index
