Foundations

How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain

Dr Sam Wetherell

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Princeton University Press
04 January 2021

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politics

Foundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park.

By: Dr Sam Wetherell
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691193755
ISBN 10: 0691193754
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 04 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sam Wetherell is lecturer in the history of Britain and the world at the University of York. Twitter @samwetherell

Reviews for Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject An academic modernist sees opportunity in disruption. ---John Gapper, Financial Times [A] brilliant new history. . . . A highly convincing book, with the sort of clarity and panoramic scope that is too often, in books on this subject, lost in architectural and decorative minutiae. ---Owen Hatherley, Tribune Magazine Elegantly written. . . . [A] timely contribution. ---Alistair Fair, Architectural History