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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 state in tackling urgent problems of housing and urban growth and in promoting innovative design and architecture. These innovative planned settlements have left a contested and complex legacy, but are once again on the political and urbanisation agenda in Europe, where a push for growth of housing and the desire for sustainability are the new drivers of urban planning and design. After years of the private development market being seen as the principal instrument of urban growth and planning, it is time to assess the urban legacy and the heritage of the UK and French New Towns. This book contrasts their evolution on both sides of the Channel and shows what can be learned about post war state planning and the future planning of new settlements.

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Author:   David Fée (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) ,  Bob Colenutt (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Sabine Coady Schäbitz (Coventry University, UK)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.469kg
ISBN:  

9781839094316

ISBN 10:   1839094311
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   18 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1- The New Towns and Policy Makers Chapter 1. Reinventing the Healthy Garden City: Ebbsfleet’s learning from the New Towns; Elanor Warwick Chapter 2. Loss and Longing: Whatever happened to the Egalitarian Ethos of the UK New Towns; Bob Colenutt Chapter 3. Unpacking the Official View: Four Myths on British New Towns; Helena Rivera  Chapter 4. Beyond your Wildest Dreams? Building New Towns in France Today; David Fée  Part 2- The New Towns and their Residents  Chapter 5. Ways of knowing the Landscape of the New Towns: A Lefebvrian Analysis; Susan Fitzpatrick  Chapter 6. The Suburbanity Urbanity of New Towns: Everyday Life in Milton Keynes and Cergy Pontoise; Ivan Nio  Chapter 7. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: Lessons learned from the Years 1965-2019; Danièle Gardrat and Frédéric Theulé  Part 3- The New Towns in their Wider Regional and International Context  Chapter 8. The London New Towns in their Changing Regional Context; Tony Champion  Chapter 9. Planning the World’s New Towns- A Tale of Two Countries, 1975-2013; Clément Orillard and Stephen Ward  Chapter 10. Learning from the Contrasting Histories and Trajectories of Harlow and Thamesmead; Julia Deltoro-Soto, Stephen Marshall Part 4- The New Towns and Heritage   Chapter 11. Public Art in British New Towns: The Past, Present and Future; Alina Congreve  Chapter 12. Public Art in French New Towns: From Experiments to Heritage; Loic Vadelorge  Chapter 13. A Tangible Utopia: Genesis of and Experiments in the French New Towns; Catherine Blain  Chapter 14. A controversial Heritage: New Towns and the problematic legacy of Modernism; Sabine Coady Schäbitz

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David Fée is a Professor of British Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle and head of CREC, the Sorbonne Nouvelle research centre on contemporary Britain. He specialises in the study of housing policies in the UK. Bob Colenutt is an Associate Lecturer at the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He is a researcher on commercial property development and the impact this has on communities. Sabine Coady Schäbitz is Associate Professor for Architecture at Coventry University. Her research and professional engagement focuses on cultural heritage and architectural and urban history.

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