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Author(s): Mark Clapson
ISBN(s): 9780714684178, 0714684171
Edition: annotated edition
File Details: PDF, 2.39 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0714684171 
ISBN 13: 9780714684178
Author: Mark Clapson

Established in 1967, Milton Keynes is England’s largest new city and one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the UK. It is also a suburban city, genuinely liked and appreciated by most of its citizens.For many reasons, however, Milton Keynes is misunderstood, and its valuable recent lessons are mostly ignored in debates about national urban policy. This book discusses the popular and intellectual prejudices that have distorted understandings of the new city. A city is nothing without its people, of course, so Mark Clapson looks at who has moved to Milton Keynes, and discusses their experiences of settling in. He also confronts the common myth of the new city’s soullessness with an account of community and association that emphasizes the strength of social interaction there.

A Social History of Milton Keynes Middle England Edge City Cass Series British Politics and Society 1st Table of contents:

1. Welcome to Milton Keynes

  • Writers Who Have Visited Milton Keynes

  • Milton Keynes in the National Newspapers and Magazines

  • The Enigma of Milton Keynes

  • In the Middle … But on the Edge

  • Sources, and the Importance of Synthesis

  • Structure of the Book

  • Notes

2. Where Did Milton Keynes Come From?

  • The Prologue

  • Long-Term Forces: Individualism, Transportation and Mobility

  • The New Towns Programme

  • The Centre for Environmental Studies

  • The Planning of Milton Keynes

  • Infrastructure and Environment

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

3. The Suburban City Takes Shape

  • Central Milton Keynes

  • The Countrified City

  • The Residential Gridsquares Beyond the Centre

  • Employment and Industrial Gridsquares

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

4. North Bucks and the New City

  • Fear and Loathing of ‘Los Angeles’ (in Bucks)

  • Other Concerns of Those Living in the Designated Area

  • Farmers and Farm Workers in a ‘Dwindling Agriculture’

  • The Anticipated Benefits of the New City

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

5. Who Moved to Milton Keynes?

  • Migration to Milton Keynes

  • Social Balance

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

6. Settling In

  • Why did People Move to Milton Keynes?

  • In Pursuit of Better Housing

  • Settling In: The Story Until 1980

  • Settling In: The Years Since 1980

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

7. The Unsettled: Social Problems in a Suburban City

  • The Unsettled (I): New Town Blues

  • The Unsettled (II): Homelessness in Milton Keynes

  • Unemployment and Low Pay in a Boom Town

  • Conclusion: Plus Ça Change?

  • Notes

8. Sociability and Social Action in the Space Station City

  • Leisure in the City Designed for Easy Living

  • Association, Agitation and Local Issues in Milton Keynes

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

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