A01=Harold Orlans
Author_Harold Orlans
British social policy
Category=JBSD
Category=JH
Category=JHB
city
community planning
Contemporary Society
corporation
Corporation Chairman
country
Crawley Development Corporation
development
Development Corporation
Devious
Ensor's Comment
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Fairview Road
garden
Great North Road
greater
Greater London Plan
Greater London Region
Green Belt Cities
Hertfordshire County Council
Independent Councillor
Labour Leader
Local Government Act
local government relations
london
London County Council Housing Committee
new town development case study
plan
planning
Post War
postwar urbanisation
qualitative fieldwork
Reith Committee
Satellite Town
Stevenage Development Corporation
Sweet Stevenage
Town Hall
Town Planning Committee
urban sociology
Vice Versa
welwyn
Welwyn Garden City
Product details
- ISBN 9780415176378
- Weight: 770g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This is Volume XIX in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1952. In November 1946, the British Government founded the New Town of Stevenage, thirty miles north of London, as part of a long-term programme to move over a million people from the metropolis. This book tells the story of this New Town: the history of the decentralization policy, of the existing town of old Stevenage, and of the first four years of the new development; the sociology of the New Town plan and of the strong local opposition which aroused nation-wide interest and led to a court case that almost stopped the project; the nature of the Development Corporation established to plan and build the New Town and the difficulties experienced in its relations with other Government departments and the Stevenage District Council. The book is, therefore, an historical and sociological study of a pioneering Government venture and of its impact upon a small town. It represents the results of interviewing, observation, and documentary research conducted over an eighteen-month period from October 1948.
