Britain's lost cities / Gavin Stamp.
By: Stamp, Gavin
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BookPublisher: London : Aurum, 2010Edition: Paperback ed.Description: 185 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9781845135232 (pbk.); 1845135237 (pbk.).Subject(s): Lost architecture -- Great BritainDDC classification: 720.941 Summary: The destruction of Britain's city centres by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and postwar planners is legendary. Mediaeval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by concrete office-blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first time, Gavin Stamp shows us exactly what we have lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of top-quality photographs of cities from Plymouth to Dundee, all of streets and buildings that are gone forever.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of top-quality photographs of cities from Plymouth to Dundee, all of streets and buildings that are gone forever. It is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving our heritage.
Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The destruction of Britain's city centres by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and postwar planners is legendary. Mediaeval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by concrete office-blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first time, Gavin Stamp shows us exactly what we have lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of top-quality photographs of cities from Plymouth to Dundee, all of streets and buildings that are gone forever.
UCC Fund.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Gavin Stamp is the author of, among other titles, The English House, 1860-1914: The Flowering of English Domestic Architecture, Lutyens: New Delhi & the Monumental, & The Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photographs of London, 1839-1879.(Bowker Author Biography)