| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Urban History |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Author's Preface; Abbreviations; 1 The Fertile Ground; Railway Suburbs; A Surfeit of Transport; The New Suburban Man; Meeting the Demand; 2 Suburbia 1900-14; Future Respectability Assured; The Edwardian Fringe; Costs of Suburban Living; The Edwardian Villa; Maid, Piano and Park; The Electric Palace; 3 Council Cottages 1900-14; A Duty, but not an Obligation; Totterdown-on-Tram-way; Bricks of Clay at Norbury; Tennis at Tottenham; 4 Case Studies 1900-14 Ilford and Golders Green |
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Land of Griggs and CorbettPropriety by Easy Purchase; Flood, Flies and Mud; Providing the Arteries; Quite in the Country; An Entirely Fresh District; Gold in the Green; A Continuous Hammering; Living Together in the Garden Suburb; Colonisers of Golders Green; Transport Facilities Built Up; Completing the Suburb; 5 Some Homes for Heroes 1919-25; 'What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in'; Houses by Act of Parliament; Private Houses -- at a Price; More Legislation; 6 Speculators' Suburbia 1923-39; Private Building in Earnest; No Depression for the Builders |
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The ProvidersA Formless Suburbia; Middlesex Swamped; Along the Electric Rails of Surrey; Essex, Kent and the Rest; 7 Building Estates 1920-39; Methods of Development; Drains, Gas and Water; Roads, Made and Unmade; Constraints; Defects in Estate Design; Much in a Name; Suburban Shops; 8 Homes for the Mortgaged: The Suburban House and Garden 1920-39; Semis and Others; Architects Are We All; Modernism Spurned; Insecure Foundations; Coke Walls and Cathedral Windows; Behind the Front Door; The Hallowed Plot; A House for the Car; Caveat Emptor; 9 Council Cottages 1920-39; One Fifth for the Lowly |
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The LCC: Problems and AchievementOther Councils' Housing; 10 Life in the Ned-Georgian Suburbs; London Suburban Man; Snobbery and Status; Health in the Suburbs; Seasoned Travellers; At Home for Admiration; Suburban Screens; Superhet and Two-penny Library; Outdoors in Suburbia; Behind Suburban Curtains; 11 Suburban Money 1925-39; From Loan to Profit; Causes of Disaster; Price and Choice; Each to His Means; Mortgage Rates; Cash Down? No Worr; The Borders Case; 12 Selling The Suburb; Nightingales and Baronial Halls; By Car, Train and Steamer to the Show House |
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Boxers, Maharajahs and Free Refrigerators13 Transport for the Suburbs; Run the trains and They Will Come; Suburban Tram and Bus; Builders' Buses; Cheapest by Tram; The Magic Half-Mil; Metro-land; Encouraging the Railways; An Electric Suburbia; New Railways for the Northern Suburbs; A few Jewels in the Dross; 14 Neo-Georgian Case Studies: (I) Edgware, the Underground Suburb; The Beginnings of a Suburb; A Pioneer Rewarded; By Tube to the Best Sites; Disappointments; Signs of Progres; A New Hope; From Parish to Borough; Services and Amenities Follow Behind; Getting Together |
| Summary |
Annotation Originally published in 1973, 'Semi-Detached London' looks at the great suburban expansion of London between the two world wars. The book covers all aspects of urban history, presenting an authoritative and balanced account of the Great Suburban Age, and the final uninhibited forty years before the Green Belt and Development Plan. The roles of the speculative builder, the estate developer and the local authorities receive careful attention and the author's special knowledge of London's transport systems ensures that the leading part they played is fully developed. Students of social, urban and transport history will find this book a valuable source of reference |
| Notes |
"Originally published in 1973, Semi-Detached London looks at the great suburban expansion of London between the two world wars. The book covers all aspects of urban history, presenting an authoritative and balanced account of the Great Suburban Age, and the final uninhibited forty years before the Green Belt and Development Plan. The roles of the speculative builder, the estate developer and the local authorities receive careful attention and the author's special knowledge of London's transport systems ensures that the leading part they played is fully developed. Students of social, urban and transport history will find this book a valuable source of reference."--Provided by publisher |
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Housing-England-London Metropolitan Area-History-20th century
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London Metropolitan Area (England)-History
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Suburban life-England-London Metropolitan Area-History-20th century
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Transportation-England-London Metropolitan Area-History-20th century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351175142 |
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1351175149 |
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9781351175128 |
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1351175122 |
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