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Designs on Democracy : Architecture and the Public in Interwar London.

By: Shasore, NealSeries: Oxford Historical Monographs: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022Copyright date: �2022Description: 1 online resource (461 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: EBC7079710ISBN: 9780192666543Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Designs on DemocracyDDC classification: 720.94109045 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Institutions -- Publications -- Archives -- Introduction: Reconstructing the Profession for a Democratic Age -- Definitions: Architects, Their Publics, and Interwar Britain -- Reconstruction -- The Campaign for Statutory Registration -- The Professionalization of Management -- Corporatism and Institutional History -- Structure -- 1: Propaganda: Publicity and the Arts of Display at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley -- Introduction -- Lawrence Weaver, Design Reformer -- Empire and Advertising -- The Palace of Industry -- The Advertising Exhibition at Olympia -- Conclusion -- 2: Slump: Public Relations and the Building World -- Introduction -- The Building Industries National Council -- RIBA Public Relations -- Conclusion -- 3: Machine-Craft: Forging Public Institutions -- Introduction -- Artifex -- Chinese Papers -- Materials and Manufacture -- A Conduit to Progress -- Information Bureau -- 'Everyday Things' -- Conclusion -- 4: Vigilance: Preservationism and a Proprietary Public -- Introduction -- Regent Street and the Quadrant -- Crown Lands and Carlton House Terrace -- Shutters up in Portland Town -- The Georgian Group -- Conclusion -- 5: Manners: Public Propriety and Civic Design -- Introduction -- Good and Bad Manners -- The Civic and the Domestic -- A Hundred New Towns for Britain! -- The Scheme -- Forbidden Houses -- An Alternative to Tenements -- Heteredox Economics, Liberal Anglicanism, Public Health, and Eugenics -- Conclusion -- 6: The Architectural Mind: Topographical Projections on the Public Realm -- Introduction -- Waterloo Bridge-Relics, Romance, and Representationalism -- Charing Cross-the Planner's Panoptic -- Road, Rail, and River.
Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Archival Sources -- Databases/Reference Works -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Websites/Blogs -- Grey Literature -- Books -- Secondary Sources -- Articles -- Ph.D. Theses -- Books -- Index.
Summary: Designs on Democracy provides an ambitious revision of how we understand the pivotal period of the formation of the profession of architecture in twentieth century Britain, spanning the excitable discussions about the reconstruction of the profession for a democratic age after WWI, and the reconstruction and planning following WWII.
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Cover -- Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Institutions -- Publications -- Archives -- Introduction: Reconstructing the Profession for a Democratic Age -- Definitions: Architects, Their Publics, and Interwar Britain -- Reconstruction -- The Campaign for Statutory Registration -- The Professionalization of Management -- Corporatism and Institutional History -- Structure -- 1: Propaganda: Publicity and the Arts of Display at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley -- Introduction -- Lawrence Weaver, Design Reformer -- Empire and Advertising -- The Palace of Industry -- The Advertising Exhibition at Olympia -- Conclusion -- 2: Slump: Public Relations and the Building World -- Introduction -- The Building Industries National Council -- RIBA Public Relations -- Conclusion -- 3: Machine-Craft: Forging Public Institutions -- Introduction -- Artifex -- Chinese Papers -- Materials and Manufacture -- A Conduit to Progress -- Information Bureau -- 'Everyday Things' -- Conclusion -- 4: Vigilance: Preservationism and a Proprietary Public -- Introduction -- Regent Street and the Quadrant -- Crown Lands and Carlton House Terrace -- Shutters up in Portland Town -- The Georgian Group -- Conclusion -- 5: Manners: Public Propriety and Civic Design -- Introduction -- Good and Bad Manners -- The Civic and the Domestic -- A Hundred New Towns for Britain! -- The Scheme -- Forbidden Houses -- An Alternative to Tenements -- Heteredox Economics, Liberal Anglicanism, Public Health, and Eugenics -- Conclusion -- 6: The Architectural Mind: Topographical Projections on the Public Realm -- Introduction -- Waterloo Bridge-Relics, Romance, and Representationalism -- Charing Cross-the Planner's Panoptic -- Road, Rail, and River.

Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Archival Sources -- Databases/Reference Works -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Websites/Blogs -- Grey Literature -- Books -- Secondary Sources -- Articles -- Ph.D. Theses -- Books -- Index.

Designs on Democracy provides an ambitious revision of how we understand the pivotal period of the formation of the profession of architecture in twentieth century Britain, spanning the excitable discussions about the reconstruction of the profession for a democratic age after WWI, and the reconstruction and planning following WWII.

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