Invincible green suburbs, brave new towns : social change and urban dispersal in post-war England / Mark Clapson.

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Clapson, Mark.

Title & Author:

Invincible green suburbs, brave new towns : social change and urban dispersal in post-war England / Mark Clapson.

Publication:

Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Description:

241 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-233) and index.
Myths and misunderstandings -- The origins and extent of postwar urban dispersal -- Moving out -- Settling in -- Suburban neurosis and new town blues -- Suburban solidarities: social life on the postwar new estate -- Invincible suburbs? Brave new towns? Some conclusions and connections.

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ISBN:

071904135X (cloth)
9780719041358 (cloth)
0719041368 (pbk.)
9780719041365 (pbk.)

Subject:

New towns Great Britain.
Suburbs Great Britain.
Villes nouvelles Grande-Bretagne.
Banlieues Grande-Bretagne.
New towns.
Suburbs.
Suburbanisatie.
New Towns.
Voorsteden.
Great Britain.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200362
Call No.: HT169.57.G7 C53 1998
Status: Available

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