Injurious vistas the control of outdoor advertising, governance and the shaping urban experience in Britain, 1817-1962 / James Greenhalgh.
Greenhalgh, James (Historian), author.
2021
HF5843
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Title Injurious vistas the control of outdoor advertising, governance and the shaping urban experience in Britain, 1817-1962 / James Greenhalgh.
Author Greenhalgh, James (Historian), author.
ISBN 9783030790189 (electronic bk.)
3030790185 (electronic bk.)
3030790177
9783030790172
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79018-9
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-79018-9 doi
Call Number HF5843
Dewey Decimal Classification 659.13420941
Summary This book is a history of outdoor advertising control in Britain between the early-nineteenth century and the beginning of the 1960s. It considers the development of primarily legislative and governmental approaches to controlling commercial signage, billboards, posters and hoardings in rural and urban areas. This study of how the proliferation of outdoor advertising was dramatically curtailed serves as a means to examine how the understanding and governance of lived spaces developed over a century and a half. In the early-nineteenth century outdoor adverting was just another material nuisance to regimes of improvement; by the turn of the century it was reframed as a threat to architecture, rural beauty and codes of moral self-governance. In the twentieth century it disrupted visual amenity and destabilized the civilizing influence of modern planning. More than merely a history of a radical and largely overlooked change in the visual environment, this is the story of how the modern state saw and regulated the lived spaces of Britain. James Greenhalgh is an historian of modern Britain whose work concerns the experience and development of the built environment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work has examined the redevelopment of cities in the mid-twentieth century, trajectories of urban modernism, as well as the domestic and urban experience of the Second World War using life story perspectives.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave studies in economic history, 2662-6500
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030790172
Injurious vistas the control of outdoor advertising, governance and the shaping urban experience in Britain, 1817 - 1962
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Outdoor Advertising and Improvement in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3. Opposition Emerges
Chapter 4. SCAPA, Amenity and the Value of the Environment
Chapter 5. Billboards, Planning and Urban Modernism
Chapter 6. Conclusion.

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