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| Author | : S. P. B. Mais |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2014-12-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107452589 |
First published in 1935, this book describes various aspects of life in London and the London City Council's role in maintaining an effective infrastructure.
| Author | : Stuart Petre Brodie Mais |
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| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1939 |
| Genre | : London (England) |
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| Author | : Stuart Petre Brodie Mais |
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| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1939 |
| Genre | : London (England) |
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| Author | : Stuart Petre Brodie Mais |
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| Release | : 1939 |
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| Author | : Edmund Yates |
| Publisher | : New York : Harper & Bros. |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 1885 |
| Genre | : Authors, English |
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| Author | : Matti O. Hannikainen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2017-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134807546 |
The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a curiously neglected subject, despite the fact that various kinds of green spaces cover huge areas in cities in the UK today. This book explores how and why public green spaces have been created and used in London, and what actors have been involved in their evolution, during the course of the twentieth century. Building on case studies of the contemporary boroughs of Camden and Southwark and making use of a wealth of archival material, the author takes us through the planning and creation stages, to the intended (and actual) uses and ongoing management of the spaces. By highlighting the rise and fall of municipal authorities and the impact of neo-liberalism after the 1970s, the book also deepens our understanding of how London has been governed, planned and ruled during the twentieth century. It makes a crucial contribution to academic as well as political discourse on the history and present role of green space in sustainable cities.
| Author | : Tony Travers |
| Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2015-11-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1785900110 |
It is the year 1965. Mary Quant introduces the miniskirt to society in her shop in Chelsea; the Dalek-style Post Office Tower is opened; and the Beatles play their last ever live UK tour date. Most importantly, on 1 April, a new system of city government is introduced and London's thirty-two boroughs are born, revolutionising the capital into the place we know today.New names had to be chosen, councillors elected and policies formed; these boroughs and the Greater London Council between them took control of housing, roads, planning, schools and social services. Half a century on and, though the GLC was abolished in 1986, the boroughs live on, now working alongside a new metropolitan government headed by mayors Ken Livingstone and, since 2008, Boris Johnson.In London's Boroughs at 50, Tony Travers examines the governing system that developed alongside the growing metropolis and, by identifying the unique path each has taken over the years, tells the fascinating story of how our remarkably diverse boroughs have not only survived, but actively shaped both the city and the lives of its inhabitants in their impressive fifty-year history.
| Author | : David Edward Owen |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674358850 |
Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.
| Author | : Michael Heller |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317323718 |
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
| Author | : Jerry White |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2009-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1407013076 |
Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
