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English Journey: Or the Road to Milton Keynes
Beryl Bainbridge , and J.B. Priestley Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback  England
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In 1983 Beryl Bainbridge and crew embarked on a BBC-sponsored tour from Southampton up through Manchester, then on to Milton Keynes, mirroring the route taken by J.B. Priestley in his 1933 classic, English Journey. Bainbridge pegs the British people just right, and notes the small details, such as the hundreds of starlings "perched in rows like black door-knobs" on the roof and gables of Bradford's Town Hall. She takes England's pulse, compares it to the England her family knew and to Priestley's reports of 50 years before, providing depth and poignancy to her sharp, amusing perceptions.Customer Reviews:
A nice travelog...........2000-08-19
The sections are laid out in journal form covering events day by day and many of the cities warrent a separate chapter. Like a motion picture camera, Bainbridge vividly records the detail of what is to be seen -- the view from the bus, the accomodations, the food, the highlights and frustrations. Her trip begins in Southhampton, then goes to these places: Salisbury, Bristol; Cotswolds; Birmingham; Stoke-on-Trent; Mancester, Liverpool, Bradford; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Stockton-on-Tees; York, Lincoln, and Norwhch; and ends in Milton Keynes.
Baninbridge's trip is a "sort-of" southwest-northeast drive and one you might consider replicating in part if you're thinking of taking a motor trip though England. You'll miss many historic places (London), but you'll get a feel for the diversity of the land and it's people.
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Tales of the City: A Study of Narrative and Urban Life
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How do we picture urban life and formulate our experience of it? Tales of the City brings together the academics' abstract tales with the vivid stories about a particular city, Milton Keynes, and the often moving self narrations of its residents. It explores the role of story-telling processes for the creative constructing of experience, with particular attention to personal narrations. The story that is now emerging, told by many individual actor narrators, is of the city as a natural setting for human life, in stark contrast to the pessimistic anti-urban tales of many academic narrators. Drawing on narrative studies, cultural and linguistic anthropology and social theory, Professor Finnegan skillfully examines the narrative conventions and cultural implications of our multiple tales of the city, and relates them to profound mythic themes about urban life, community, and to the creative role of the active, reflecting individual.
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Keynes, Chicago and Friedman
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Milton Keynes: A Pictorial History (Pictorial History Series)
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LIST OF BUILDING OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORICAL INTEREST. DISTRICT OF MILTON KEYNES, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.(BLETCHLY AREA)
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A Social History of Milton Keynes: Middle England / Edge City (Cass Series--British Politics and Society,)
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Most people in Britain have heard of Milton Keynes. Established in 1967, it is England's largest new city and one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the UK. It is also 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 therefore discusses the popular and intellectual prejudices that have distorted understandings of the new city. It focused upon the original thinking that went into the planning of Milton Keynes, highlights the most notable features of its design and construction, and assesses the impact of new development upon the countryside and agriculture.
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 emphasises the strength of social interaction there. This work provides an informed account of the first decades of Milton Keynes, and emphasizes its relevance to social and urban change in England in the 1960s. The book should be of interest to urban and social historians of contemporary Britain, to planning historians, urban geographers, town planners, sociologists, and also the people of Milton Keynes.
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For want of a design: David Lock examines the consultation draft of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy and finds some worrying ... An article from: Town and Country Planning
David Lock Manufacturer: Town and Country Planning Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008EETHS Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Town and Country Planning, published by Town and Country Planning Association on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 4296 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.|
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The History of Milton Keynes and District
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Brilliant - If you live in milton keynes uk a must read book.......1999-06-10
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English Journey Or The Road To Milton Keynes -
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