Lessons from the British and French new towns : paradise lost? /

Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? explores the evolution of the New Towns in both France and the UK from several perspectives including public policy, sociology, geography and heritage. UK and French New Towns have many similarities in terms of the role of the national st...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fée, David (Editor), Colenutt, Bob (Editor), Coady Schäbitz, Sabine (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Subjects:
City planning.
Urban policy.
Social Science > Sociology > Urban.
Urban & municipal planning.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Lessons from British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost?
  • Part I: The New Towns and Policymakers
  • Chapter 1: Reinventing the Healthy Garden City: Ebbsfleet's Learning from the New Towns
  • Chapter 2: Loss and Longing: Whatever Happened to the Egalitarian Ethos of the UK New Towns?
  • Chapter 3: Unpacking the Official View: Five Myths on British New Towns
  • Chapter 4: Beyond Your Wildest Dreams? Building New Towns in France Today
  • Part II: The New Towns and Their Residents
  • Chapter 5: Ways of Knowing the Landscape of the New Towns: A Lefebvrian Analysis
  • Chapter 6: The Suburban Urbanity of the New Towns: Everyday Life in Cergy-Pontoise and Milton Keynes
  • Chapter 7: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: Lessons Learned from the Years 19652019
  • Part III: The New Towns in their Wider Regional and International Context
  • Chapter 8: The London New Towns in Their Changing Regional Context
  • Chapter 9: Planning the World's New Towns A Tale of Two Countries, 19752013
  • Chapter 10: Learning from the Contrasting Histories and Trajectories of Harlow and Thamesmead
  • Part IV: The New Towns and Heritage
  • Chapter 11: Public Art in British New Towns: The Past, Present and Future
  • Chapter 12: Public Art in French New Towns: From Experiments to Heritage
  • Chapter 13: A Tangible Utopia: The Genesis of Built Experiments in French New Towns
  • Chapter 14: A Controversial Heritage: New Towns and the Problematic Legacy of Modernism
  • Conclusion
  • Index.

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