{"title":"Books by Miles Glendinning","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781350166165","title":"Scotch Baronial","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book takes a timely look at how Scotland’s national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scotland – in particular its world-famous ‘castle architecture’ – has played the ongoing narrative of Scots national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotch Baronial \u003c\/i\u003eexamines many of the country’s most important historic buildings – from the palaces left behind by the ‘lost’ monarchy, to revivalist castles and proud town halls – examining their architectural styles and tracing their wildly fluctuating political and national connotations.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn introduction to a key episode in British architectural history, and a valuable resource for anyone studying the role of architecture in narratives of nationalism and empire globally, \u003ci\u003eScotch Baronial\u003c\/i\u003e ends by bringing the story into the 21st century, exploring how contemporary ‘neo-modernist’ architecture in today’s Scotland, as exemplified in the Holyrood parliament, relates to concepts of national identity in architecture over the previous centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312213668213,"sku":"9781350166165","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350166165_1a95c276-c2b9-440d-a744-797587b91f60.jpg?v=1786018555"},{"product_id":"9781474222501","title":"Mass Housing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2021 (The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It will become the standard work on the subject.\" \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism’s most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide ‘homes for the people’.  Vast programmes of mass housing – high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style – became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProviding a global approach to the history of Modernist mass-housing production, this authoritative study combines architectural history with the broader social, political, cultural aspects of mass housing – particularly the ‘mass’ politics of power and state-building throughout the 20th century.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the relationship between built form, ideology, and political intervention, it shows how mass housing not only reflected the transnational ideals of the Modernist project, but also became a central legitimizing pillar of nation-states worldwide.  In a compelling narrative which likens the spread of mass housing to a ‘Hundred Years War’ of successive campaigns and retreats, it traces the history around the globe from Europe via the USA, Soviet Union and a network of international outposts, to its ultimate, optimistic resurgence in China and the East – where it asks: Are we facing a new dawn for mass housing, or another ‘great housing failure’ in the making?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312455594357,"sku":"9781474222501","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781474222501_a0cddc9c-1e4a-46f6-84d4-25b5f736bd73.jpg?v=1786020649"},{"product_id":"9781350401747","title":"Building Modern Scotland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCombining architectural and social history, this open access book tells for the first time the in-depth story of Scotland’s new towns.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most significant episodes in modern architectural, urban and social history, Scotland’s postwar new towns offered new housing, new ways of life and new jobs. Begun between the late 1940s and the late 1960s, the new towns – East Kilbride, Glenrothes, Cumbernauld, Livingston and Irvine – were a key element of the planned Welfare State, attracting international attention and widespread publicity. These were places of architectural innovation, and economic and social change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding Modern Scotland \u003c\/i\u003etells a new history of the new towns, combining architectural and social history to illustrate what was planned, what was built, and how these places were experienced by the communities who lived and worked in them. It positions the new towns at the heart of modern Scottish history, showing how they represented an ambition to make a modern, transformed nation. The book surveys each new town’s planning and design before turning to key topics such as housing, family life, work and opportunity, and community. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on archives and oral history, the book will appeal to historians of modern architecture and design as well as readers interested in modern social history. It provides a new account of modern Scotland, its buildings, places and people, and argues that a better understanding of the new towns’ history and value should inform present-day decision-making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 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