Dreamstreets
Subtitle: a journey through Britain's village utopias
By: Jacqueline Yallop
Publisher: Vintage Books; Jonathan Cape
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780224098274; 9781448181551; 9780099584636
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: New towns; City planning; Stadtplanung; Planned communities; Cities and towns
Description: [The author] began her working life leading guided walks at a small village ... Built by philanthropic employers for families working the lead mines, the isolated settlement was one of a network of 'model' villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ... Yallop visits, and re-visits, some of these utopian experiments to explore their rich histories and to understand the social, political, and cultural contexts from which they emerged. From Scotland's New Lanark mills to the imposing market square at Tremadog in Wales and the Arts and Crafts cottages of Port Sunlight, she walks the avenues and terraces to examine what remains of the impulses and ideals which made these villages so fashionable"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cromford, Derbyshire ; Tremadog, Gwynedd ; Cromford again; title: Nenthead, Cumbria; title: Edensor, Derbyshire ; Blaise Hamlet, Bristol ; back to Edensor; title: Saltaire, West Yorkshire ; Swindon Railway Village, Wiltshire ; Saltaire again; title: Creswell, Derbyshire; title: Port Sunlight, the Wirral; title: Portmeirion, Gwynedd.