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Landscapes of hope and crisis : dereliction, environment, and leisure in Britain during the Long-1970s
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Saumarez Smith, Otto (2023) Landscapes of hope and crisis : dereliction, environment, and leisure in Britain during the Long-1970s. Journal of British Studies, 62 (4). pp. 988-1010. doi:10.1017/jbr.2023.7 ISSN 0021-9371.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.7
Abstract
This article surveys plans that envisioned new leisure uses for derelict landscapes in Britain from about 1966 to 1979. These plans were an attempt to transform areas of Britain in ways that cut across issues ranging from deindustrialization to planning, landscape, environmentalism, industrial heritage, and leisure. The author argues for the importance of the profession of landscape architects in setting the agenda for tackling industrial dereliction. It then shows these issues playing out in three locations: in the Lea Valley, in Stoke-on-Trent, and in Telford New Town. Derelict landscapes were a visual manifestation of the various crises that continue to structure historians’ accounts of the 1970s, but the author shows how the response to the issue was characterized by an almost utopian optimism that these problems could be resolved in a way that would stimulate new forms of living.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | City planning -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Urban renewal -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Waste lands -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Landscape changes -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Cities and towns -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Urbanization -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of British Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0021-9371 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 62 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 988-1010 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/jbr.2023.7 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The North American Conference on British Studies | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 July 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 July 2022 | ||||||||
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