State planning of spatial change: compromise and contradiction in Peterlee New Town in Redundant spaces in cities and regions? Studies in industrial decline and social change.

Auteurs :
ROBINSON, F.
ANDERSON, J.
DUNCAN, S.
HUDSON, R.

Description :
The A. examines the changing course and effects of direct intervention, by the central state, in local spatial change. The New Town started as a response to the local labour movement's demands for better living conditions and secure employment. Central government replaced local government and saw Peterlee as a way of ensuring the maintenance and reproduction of a labour force for mining coal. When coal mining collapsed, Peterlee became a spatial concentration of cheap peripheral labour to be used in low-paid and insecure assembly jobs.


Type de document :
Monographie

Source :
, p. 263-284, Références bibliographiques : 21 réf.

Date :
1983

Identifiants :
isbn : 0-12-058480-8

Editeur :
Pays édition : Inconnu