Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
The USA and the English City Since 1945
Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Planning, History and Environment Series
ISBN: 978-0-415-32230-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
This book explores the transatlantic debates about city planning and urban sociology from the end of the Second World War to the present day. While the Americanisation of the English town is greater than the Anglicization of the US city, these debates are not a one-way process but a complex interaction between town planners, social reformers, sociologists and other professional groups on both sides of the Atlantic.
‘From LA to MK and Back’ is a fascinating account of the influence of key planners, architects, sociologists and social reformers on how thinking about the city has developed over the last sixty years from post-war reconstruction via new towns, problems of the inner-city, and notions of community, to edge city, urban renaissance and the new urbanism.
Shows how the English town has been Americanized as a result of transatlantic collaboration and mutual influence since 1945, and how, to a lesser extent, the American city has been influenced by the English town.
