Overview
- Is a history of outdoor advertising control in Britain between early nineteenth century and beginning of the 1960s
- Serves as a means to examine how the understanding and governance of lived spaces developed over a century and a half
- Considers the development of primarily legislative and governmental approaches to controlling commercial signage
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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About this book
This book is a history of outdoor advertising control in Britain between the early-nineteenth century and the beginning of the 1960s. It considers the development of primarily legislative and governmental approaches to controlling commercial signage, billboards, posters and hoardings in rural and urban areas. This study of how the proliferation of outdoor advertising was dramatically curtailed serves as a means to examine how the understanding and governance of lived spaces developed over a century and a half. In the early-nineteenth century outdoor adverting was just another material nuisance to regimes of improvement; by the turn of the century it was reframed as a threat to architecture, rural beauty and codes of moral self-governance. In the twentieth century it disrupted visual amenity and destabilized the civilizing influence of modern planning. More than merely a history of a radical and largely overlooked change in the visual environment, this is the story of how the modernstate saw and regulated the lived spaces of Britain.
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About the author
James Greenhalgh is an historian of modern Britain whose work concerns the experience and development of the built environment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work has examined the redevelopment of cities in the mid-twentieth century, trajectories of urban modernism, as well as the domestic and urban experience of the Second World War using life story perspectives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Injurious Vistas: The Control of Outdoor Advertising, Governance and the Shaping of Urban Experience in Britain, 1817–1962
Authors: James Greenhalgh
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79018-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79017-2Published: 09 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79018-9Published: 08 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 160
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Urban History