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Author(s): Lauren Pikó
ISBN(s): 9780429816161, 0429816162
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.32 MB
Year: 2019
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0429816162 
ISBN 13: 9780429816161
Author: Lauren Piko

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? Why have these meanings proved so resilient? Milton Keynes in British Culture 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. Combining approaches from urban planning history, cultural history and cultural studies, political economy and heritage studies, the book maps the ways in which Milton Keynes’ newness formed an existential challenge to ideals of English landscapes as receptacles of tradition and closed, fixed national identities. Far from being a marginal, “foreign” and atypical town, the book demonstrates how the changing political fortunes of state urban planned spaces were a key site of conflict around ideas of how the British state should function, how its landscapes should look, and who they should be for.

Milton Keynes in British Culture Imagining England 1st Table of contents:

1 Landscape value in modern Britain
Modernity and landscape value
From Howard to new towns: mourning and urban change
Second World War: technocracy ascendant
Declinism, postcolonial melancholia, and postwar planning
“White heat” and reforming the reconstruction movement
North Bucks New City

2 The Plan for Milton Keynes
Initial responses
MKDC marketing and the Interim Report
The Plan for Milton Keynes
The Plan in national media
(Relative) radio silence

3 The post-tower-block city?
The Heath government and the ideology of public spending
Milton Keynes, the post-tower-block city?
Crisis and urban planning

4 Mirroring England, mirroring decline
The IMF crisis and signification spirals
Milton Keynes and the crisis of over-absorption
“The Facts”
Dissenting voices: Jack Trevor Story
“A Mirror of England”

5 The Concrete Cows
Concrete community art in Milton Keynes
The electric whale
Media context: The Winter of Discontent
MKDC responses: “Our nation needs a new shop window”

6 “You’ve never seen anything like it”: the aspirational turn
The Shopping Building
Thatcher comes to Milton Keynes
The Point, Energy World and novel landscapes
Media and popular culture responses

7 Milton Keynes and “the middle”
The shifting centre in British politics
Thatcherite spatial politics: the middle against the radical fringe
“Best of both worlds?”
Postwar landscapes in Britain

8 The wind-up
In on the joke?
Approaching ‘the wind up’
Basildon Man and the meanings of new towns
Perpetuating the myths? Image and reality

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