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S/A/28. Town Planning as Social Engineering has rarely lived up to its aspirations.

WORDS:
1800
DATE:
2008
PRICE:
19.99 GBP

The paper examines the development of town planning and social engineering in Britain from the 1950s onwards. The history of town planning in the country is reviewed discussing architectural genres, building materials, etc. The utopian-modernist design of Cumbernauld Town Centre, the high-rise Ronan Point and Edmonton in London are discussed.

 

KEYWORDS: Architecture, town planning, social engineering, utopian, modernist, high-rise,

 
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