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Otto Saumarez Smith's [has written a] detailed and engrossing book about the mid-20th-century boom in urban redevelopment ... That the book ends with a sense of tragedy and intense disillusionment is less of a judgement on the characters involved and more on the inherent penny-pinching - or money-misdirecting, perhaps - of the British political class when presented with the chance to create a dignifying, elevating, equalising public realm. The strength of Boom Cities lies in its insistence that blaming individuals for the failures of a whole political and economic system is too easy. It makes us see the things that should have been different, and the ways in which they could still be. * Lynsey Hanley, New Statesman *

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Otto Saumarez Smith is an Assistant Professor in Architectural History at the University of Warwick.

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