Britain's Lost Cities by Gavin Stamp
The destruction meted out on Britain's city centres during the twentieth century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and city-planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces and Victorian theaters, many vanished for ever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of 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 for ever. In the accompanying text, Stamp traces their creation and destruction, remembering the massive campaign to save the Euston Arch, wantonly demolished in 1962, and mourning the loss of lovely medieval Coventry, which was already doomed by the city planners even before German air-raids intervened. Alternately fascinating, enraging and heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving our heritage.Gavin Stamp is an architectural historian and author who served as chairman of the Twentieth Century Society for a number of years. Lost Victorian Britain, Britain's Lost Cities, and Edwin Lutyens Rural Houses (all Aurum), as well as The Monument to the Missing of the Somme and The Shifting Metropolis: Early Images of London 1839 - 1879, are among his other works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845132644 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845132645 |
| Title | Britain's Lost Cities |
| Author | Gavin Stamp |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2007-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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