UID:
almahu_9949385796602882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429344176
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0429344171
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9781000734737
,
1000734730
,
9781000734331
,
1000734331
,
9781000734539
,
1000734536
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in urban history ; 6
Content:
"Urban motorways are among the greatest - and least forgiven - legacies of post-war planning in Britain. Ringways explores the genesis, development and collapse of London's controversial plans for nearly 500 miles of highways, to understand why such ambitious and unlamented programmes gained widespread support and triggered urban uproar. Combining a review of the wider intellectual climate with extensive archival research, Ringways asks how far the rise of the urban motorway can be attributed to urban contingency as opposed to far-seeing planners; how ideas of the environment changed as proposals were debated; and whether their fall was the work of popular revolt or expert regret"--
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (Master's)--University of Cambridge, 2006.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Dnes, Michael, 1985- Rise and fall of London's ringways, 1943-1973. New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 ISBN 9780367361570
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429344176
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429344176
