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Explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw.
Synopsis
How did our major cities become so divided? How do they respond to housing and neighbourhood decay? This book examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second largest city and pioneer of the modern urban order, as our strongest model of the drive to create public solutions to private squalor is in three parts.