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A Social History of Milton Keynes
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 59.95Established in 1967, Milton Keynes is England's largest new city and one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the UK. It is also a suburban city, genuinely liked and appreciated by most of its citizens. For many reasons, however, Milton Keynes is misunderstood, and its valuable recent lessons are mostly ignored in debates about national urban policy.... more...
Suburban Century
Bloomsbury Publishing 2003; US$ 109.95Bad architecture. Soulless. Destructive of communities. The suburbs are much-maligned places. We see this time and again in films like American Beauty and novels like The Ice Storm. But are they really as homogenous and conservative as we think they are? In this wide-ranging comparative study of England and the United States, Mark Clapson offers new... more...
The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Twentieth Century
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 37.95The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Britain is a jargon-free guide to the social, economic and political history of Britain since 1900. Opening with a general introduction and overview of twentieth century Britain, the book contains a wealth of chronologies, facts and figures, introductions to major themes, the historiography of twentieth... more...
Anglo-American Crossroads
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 23.99The postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research and urban planning have been particularly significant. Beginning with debates about reconstruction during the Second World War, Anglo-American Crossroads explores how Americanisation influenced key approaches... more...
Suburbanization in Global Society
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 144.95Suburbanization in Global Society presents new and innovative contributions in comparative suburban studies for urban regions around the globe. Research is post-1945 with a particular focus upon social and cultural change in suburbanisation processes in developed as well as emerging urban countries. more...
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