Milton Keynes in British culture : imagining England
Pikó, Lauren2019
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The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose 'no fixed conception of how people ought to live.' Despite this progressive social vision, and its low density, flexible, green urban design, the town has been consistently represented in British media, political rhetoric and popular culture negatively. as a fundamentally sterile, paternalistic, concrete imposition on the landscape, as a 'joke', and even as 'Los Angeles in Buckinghamshire'. How did these meanings develop at such odds from residents' and planners' experiences? This title traces the representations of Milton Keynes in British national media, political rhetoric and popular culture in detail from 1967 to 1992, demonstrating how the town's founding principles came to be understood as symbolic of the worst excesses of a postwar state planning system which was falling from favour.
Main title:
Milton Keynes in British culture : imagining England / Lauren Pikó.
Author:
Pikó, Lauren, author
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2019.
Collation:
218 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780367000516 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.591085
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2517548
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes Local Studies | Local history lending | L060:90 | Available |
| Milton Keynes Local Studies | Local history reference | L060:90 | Available |