Successive Applications of Sticking-Plaster
Andrew Saint: The urban history of Britain, 1 November 2001
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain. Vol. III: 1840-1950
edited by Martin Daunton.
Cambridge, 944 pp., £90, January 2001,0 521 41707 4 Show More
edited by Martin Daunton.
Cambridge, 944 pp., £90, January 2001,
“... whether better alternative structures were possible. After all, the urban consequences of what Patrick Geddes christened the ‘neotechnic’ age were international in effect. Did German, Italian or American cities, with their constitutional guarantees, stronger civic elites but consequent rigidities, do better or worse in the face of the 20th-century ... ”