《A Social History of Milton Keynes》是2004年2月出版的圖書，由Clapson, Mark編寫。
基本介紹
- 中文名：米爾頓·凱恩斯社會史
- 外文名：A Social History of Milton Keynes
- 作者：Clapson, Mark
- 出版時間：2004年
- 出版社：Routledge
- ISBN：9780714655246
- 定價：2.35 美元
內容簡介
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 a 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 focuses 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.
簡譯：大多數英國人都聽說過米爾頓凱恩斯。它成立於1967年，是英國最大的新城，也是英國發展最快的城市之一。它也是一個郊區城市，深受大多數市民的喜愛和讚賞。然而，由於許多原因，米爾頓凱恩斯被誤解了，在關於國家城市政策的辯論中，它最近的寶貴教訓大多被忽視。因此，本書討論了大眾和知識分子的偏見，這些偏見扭曲了人們對新城的理解。它聚焦於米爾頓凱恩斯規劃的原始思想，突出了其設計和建設的最顯著特徵，並評估了新發展對農村和農業的影響。當然，一座城市離不開它的人，所以馬克·克拉普森（Mark Clapson）審視了誰搬到了米爾頓凱恩斯（Milton Keynes），並討論了他們的定居經歷。他還通過對社區和協會的描述來對抗新城市無靈魂的常見神話，強調了那裡社會互動的力量。這項工作對米爾頓凱恩斯的前幾十年進行了深入的描述，並強調了它與20世紀60年代英國社會和城市變革的相關性。這本書應該引起當代英國城市和社會歷史學家、規劃歷史學家、城市地理學家、城市規劃師、社會學家以及米爾頓凱恩斯人民的興趣。
