Thumbnail for Fabricating lureland : a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea

Fabricating lureland : a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea

Winckler, Julia2021

Books, Manuscripts

Find it!
Remove Fabricating lureland : a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea from your current list Save Fabricating lureland : a history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea to your current list

Total copies: 2

Available: 2

Availability by location

Place reservation

Summary

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.