Twentieth-Century Suburbs: A Morphological Approach

by Carr,C.M.H

• ISBN13: 9780415257701
• ISBN10: 0415257700
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Twentieth-Century Suburbs,is concerned with the history, geography, architecture and planning of the ordinary suburban areas in which most British people live. It discusses the origins of suburbs; the ways in which they have been represented; the scale and causes of their growth; their form and architectural style; the landowners, builders and architects responsible for their creation; the changes they have undergone both physically and socially; and their impact on urban form and the implications for urban landscape management.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Conceptions Of Suburbs	1	(19)
The orgins and growth of suburbs	1	(6)
The significance of the single-family house	7	(3)
Intellectuals' views	10	(2)
Professionals' views	12	(2)
Popular taste and the speculative builder	14	(3)
Reappraising suburbs	17	(3)
The Scale And Causes Of Suburban Growth	20	(21)
Socio-economic change and suburban growth	22	(2)
The financing of residential building	24	(5)
The role of transport	29	(1)
Regional variations	30	(4)
Inter-city variations	34	(1)
Suburban growth in London	35	(3)
Suburban growth in birmingham	38	(3)
The Anatomy of Suburbs	41	(44)
Controlling suburban form	43	(5)
Dwelling types	48	(4)
Architectural style	52	(2)
Unanswered questions	54	(1)
Sources and areas	55	(4)
The beginning of a morphological period	59	(7)
Proposed and actural development	66	(2)
How uniform?	68	(12)
The Tudor Walthers Report and reality	80	(2)
Conclusion	82	(3)
Developers And Architects	85	(36)
Landowners	85	(2)
Builders	87	(3)
Architects	90	(2)
Study roads	92	(15)
Builders: the study areas	107	(4)
Architects: the study areas	111	(5)
Conclusion	116	(5)
Post-War Change	121	(32)
Background to change	121	(2)
Changes to town plan and dwelling density	123	(10)
Changes to individual dwellings	133	(3)
Some issues to be explored	136	(1)
Changes in dwelling density: Birmingham and London	137	(4)
Chronologies of change	141	(3)
Inter-area variations in amounts of change	144	(3)
Development control	147	(1)
The agents of change	148	(3)
Conclusion	151	(2)
Change At The Mocroscale	153	(28)
The study areas	155	(5)
Individual roads	160	(1)
Socio-demographic change	161	(1)
Physical change and socio-economic change	162	(2)
Occupier change and building change	164	(1)
The neighbour effect	165	(6)
The changing suburban landscape	171	(7)
Conclusion	178	(3)
Conclusion	181	(16)
Scales of decision-taking	181	(1)
The wider historico-geographical context	182	(2)
The microscale	184	(1)
The morphological period	185	(2)
Planning history and the history of urban development	187	(1)
Myth and misrepresentation	188	(1)
The tyranny of the market	189	(1)
Agents and agencies of change	190	(1)
Systemic and adaptive change	191	(1)
Responsibility for the landscape	192	(1)
Landscape as a resource	193	(1)
Suburban sprawl, the compact city and urban regeneration	194	(3)
References	197	(10)
Index	207