A town planner compares a model of Stevenage as it was on 13 July 1949 with a draft of the master plan.
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TopFotoAfter World War Two, there was a need for social and economic reconstruction. Disagreements concerning land use and planning and development were central to the break up of the wartime coalition between Labour and the Conservatives.
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Further reading
- Aldridge, M., The British New Towns: A Programme Without a Policy (London: Routledge, 1979)
- Clapson, M., Invincible Green Suburbs, Brave New Towns: Social Change and Urban Dispersal in Post-war England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998)
- Cox, A., Adversary Politics and Land (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
- Cullingworth, J.B., Environmental Planning, 1939-69: Vol. 4 Land Values, Compensation and Betterment (London: H.M.S.O, 1981)
