Twentieth-Century Suburbs (English, C. M. H. Carr | J. W. R. Whitehand)

About the Book

Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages. This book describes the ways in which these suburbs were created, particularly by private enterprise in England in the 1920s and 1930s, the physical forms they took, and how they h…

ISBN: 9780415257701