The Practice of Modernism: Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954-1972

摘要

During the decades following the 1939-45 War, damage done to British towns and cities was immense, as municipal authorities devised and implemented radical schemes to reshape and 'modernize' them. In the process councils destroyed far more than enemy action managed to inflict. It is as though certain places attempted to self-destruct: the case of Glasgow is particularly dramatic, for it had suffered somewhat less from aerial bombardment than other comparable British cities. In this book, Gold, drawing on a vast range of primary documentation and information gathered from interviewing architects involved in the post-War 'redevelopment' schemes, drily chronicles the whole sorry tale.