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Há 5 dias · Now it is the turn of Charles’s son. By contrast to his father, Prince William has said little of note about architecture or planning, or indeed anything at all. But as first in line to the ...
Há 5 dias · When Gavin Stamp died in 2017, it was generally assumed that the British “interwar” architecture book, on which he had been working for a good number of years, would never appear.
Há 4 dias · It’s the only view in the whole of England to be protected by a law in this manner. The Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act of 1902 even predates London’s most famous sightline protection, the St Paul’s Height policy, by decades. This view is the only one in England protected by an Act of Parliament (Savills)
Há 2 dias · Later he became an outspoken critic of modern architecture. He expressed his views on the topic in A Vision of Britain (1989). In 1992 he founded the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, which later evolved into the BRE Trust, an organization involved with urban regeneration and development projects.
Há 4 dias · The history of Britain during the two inter-war decades could be characterised by reference to a process by which, while the nation still clung to many of its pre-1914 imperial certainties (which in many ways still defined British identity), society was exposed to, and ‘Britishness’ to a degree undermined by, the forces of Americanisation.
Há 4 dias · Jon Wilson’s India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire is a big book intended to provide a narrative account of how Britain, a small island nation in the northern Atlantic conquered India, a large subcontinental mass that sprawls across the Indian Ocean.
Há 5 dias · The author is happy with this review, though anyone interested in examining the debate which it has opened up in sociology might be interested to read the review by Ray Pahl in Sociological Review (February 2011), as well as the debate inspired by John Holmwood's account of British sociology's misfortunes in British Journal of Sociology, November 2010.
