Milton Keynes in British culture : imagining England /
"Milton Keynes, one of post war Britain's largest and most ambitious state projects has often been maligned, derided, mocked and dismissed in politics and in popular culture alike. By integrating the cultural reception of Milton Keynes into wider histories of British politics and popular c...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2018
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| Series: | Routledge studies in modern British history
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Table of Contents:
- Milton Keynes in British history
- Decline, status, and postwar landscapes
- Landscape value in modern Britain
- The plan for Milton Keynes, 1967-1972
- The post-tower-block city? 1972-1975
- Mirroring England, mirroring decline, 1976-1978
- The Concrete Cows, 1978-1979
- "You've never seen anything like it": the aspirational turn, 1979-1986
- Milton Keynes and "the middle," c. 1980-1989
- The wind-up: c.1986-1992