Remaking Cities (Routledge Revivals): Contradictions of the Recent Urban Environment

by Alison Ravetz

This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975. Always a fine balance between central control and market forces, it was challenged by strains within and between the environmental professions and protest by people dispossessed or alienated by re-shaped urban environments. Remaking Cities critiques the export of western-style planning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415855950
• ISBN13: 9780415855952
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"