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Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-century Britain
Sam Wetherell's landmark study of the built environment
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-century Britain
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes a graphic portrayal of the corrosive impact of commodification, but can’t sympathise with the characters
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RON JACOBS welcomes a timely history of the Anti Imperialist league of America, and the role that culture played in their politics
STEVE ANDREW appreciates a passionate account of the Scottish Club during the ‘lost decade’
By telling the story of a lawless frontier town from the point of view of the Lakota, Chinese labourers, prostitutes and displaced prospectors, makes for a potted history of capital, suggests ALEX HALL
Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-century Britain
by Sam Wetherell
(Princeton University Press, £30)
CITY planning may seem a distant and theoretical topic and it often presents itself thus to stay aloof from the masses. But this book is the opposite — compelling and lucid, extremely readable and persuasive, each page is a revelation.
In the face of conditions that render people helpless, it provides a convincing narrative, a rich historical context and suggests grounds for new thinking and action.
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