Fabricating lureland : a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea
Winckler, Julia2021
Books, Manuscripts
Through the analysis of surviving archival traces, this book constructs a history of the imagination and memory of the town of Peacehaven. Built as a speculative development atop iconic chalk cliffs on the Sussex Coast and marketed as a garden city by the sea, the estate quickly attracted adverse publicity. Influential voices such as the Bloomsbury group's Virginia and Leonard Woolf, architect and writer Clough Williams-Ellis and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England soon began to criticise it as a blot on the rolling, pastoral downland.
Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021.Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021.
350 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm
9783110735208 (hbk)
942.257942.257 PEA
English
2552452