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The Concourse Shopping Centre

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Description: The Concourse Shopping Centre

TitleThe Concourse Shopping Centre

Creator nameThe Development Corporation

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1973

Object typeArchitecture

LocationSkelmersdale, United Kingdom

SubjectsArchitecture--England--History--20th centuryShops and shopping--England--20th centuryCity planning--England--20th century

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1. Planned Town Centres and New Towns

Description: Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945–1975

Two aspects of town planning assumed importance in the post-war years. The rebuilding of Britain’s war-damaged city centres in a more logical fashion with updated shopping areas and roads was bound up with deep-seated concerns for sanitary conditions and the imbalance of new industries between older industrial areas and the expanding south-east. The responses of the emerging town planning...

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PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Copyright© 2015 Historic England

Related print edition pages: pp.3-45

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture--England--History--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryCity planning--England--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Garden City movementArchitects--Great Britain--20th centuryArchitectural firms--20th centuryLandscape architecture--Great Britain--20th century

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