This is a module reading list for my module, ‘Boom cities and new towns in 20th century Britain’.
NB – I will type up the full list in text form asap. Screenshots of the Tallis reading list are temporary while I do this.
Core reading
- Stephen Ward, The Peaceful Path: Building Garden Cities and New Towns (2016)
- Municipal Dreams blog
- Mark Clapson, Invincible Green Suburbs, Brave New Towns (1998)
- John Boughton, Municipal Dreams: the rise and fall of council housing (2018)
- Otto Saumarez Smith, Boom Cities (2020)
- James Greenhalgh, ‘The new urban social history?’, Urban History, 2020
General reading
Primary sources
Garden cities
Homes fit for heroes
The Blitz and postwar reconstruction
New town utopia
Atomic
case studies
leisure and consumerism
new town blues?
segregated communities
global new towns
politics of council housing
the end of utopia?
