New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain

by Ross

In 1970, the Architectural Press published New Lives, New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother's optimistic account of how the British landscape was materially transformed in the post-war decades. Reservoirs, power stations, television and radio-transmitter masts, electricity and telephone pylons, as well as local authority housing and new or improved roads, produced a new rurality. So too did state-subsidised agricultural intensification, wider public access...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197267459
• ISBN13: 9780197267455
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: British Academy
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"