On New Lives, New Landscapes
Published on Women Writing Architecture, July 2023
Digital
The book, New Lives, New Landscapes (1970) by geographer Nan Fairbrother provides an enthusiastic account of the English landscape at a time when its suburban-rural countryside was being infiltrated by mechanised farming, mass vehicle ownership and industry during the post-war decades. It balances a precise and broad understanding of the regulatory complexity of land ownership with the very material and human effects of industrial progress. This short text provides a book review on New Lives, New Landscapes and its relevance today. Read here.