The Architectures of Childhood: Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England
Author:   Roy Kozlovsky
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138246973


Pages:   292
Publication Date:   09 September 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Roy Kozlovsky
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138246973


ISBN 10:   1138246972
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   09 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; The Peckham experiment: functionalism and subjectivity; Adventure playgrounds: play on display; The architecture of educare; Children in hospital; Cradles of citizenship: housing and community planning; Team 10 and urban childhood; Afterword; List of references; Index.

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'... it (the adventure playground) now has the scholarly account that it deserves: architectural historian Roy Kozlovsky's very fine The Architectures of Childhood: Children, Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Postwar England ... Kozlovsky provides a sympathetic but critical account of adventure playgrounds. He particularly questions the belief that play is a human instinct that surmounts its historical context.' The Architectural Review 'Each chapter is readable and informative in its own right, but what links them together, and what makes Kozlovsky's study both more ambitious in its scope and more engaging than some of the design-led histories of the architecture the period, are strong theoretical underpinnings'. Journal of Historical Geography 'Roy Kozlovsky's book ... elegantly and convincingly shows the central place of childhood in England in the years around World War II.' Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth


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Dr Roy Kozlovsky, Department of Architecture, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

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