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This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.

Produktbeschreibung
This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.
Autorenporträt
Alistair Kefford is Assistant Professor at Leiden University where he teaches history and urban studies. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, and a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. He worked for a number of years in local government planning and continues to engage with contemporary urban policy and regeneration. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals of history and urban studies and his research into 'the death of the high street' has been featured in high-profile publications such as The Financial Times.