Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 [Hardcover]

Faced with economic decline, unprecedented levels of unemployment and new forms of political extremism during Britain's last great economic crash, politicians and planners in Liverpool and Manchester responded by investing in dramatic and ambitious programmes of urban regeneration.UrbanRedevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939is the first book to provide the hitherto unknown story of the innovative transformation of these cities.

Charlotte Wildman challenges academic scholarship in British history, which associates the post-1918 period with the emasculation of local government and the decline of civic culture. She shows that local politicians, planners, architects, businessmen and even religious leaders embraced innovative trends in creating distinct forms of urban modernities, which particularly changed the way women experienced the transformed city.Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939offers a complex, interactive and multipolar interpretation of the ways cities develop, pointing to new methods and ways of understanding both interwar Britain and urban history more generally.

At a time of debate and discussion about devolution and decentralisation of government, this book makes an opportune contribution to debates about urban governance and regionalism in contemporary Britain.

This highly impressive monograph by Charlotte Wildman provides a fresh perspective by focusing on the often neglected interwar period in Liverpool and Manchester & [There] is no doubt that the study makes an outstanding contribution to the field of urban history, which students and academics will find invaluable for many years to come. History: Reviews of New Books

Charlotte Wildman is to be congratulated for taking on the complexity of the modern city and demonstrating so manyl�