New Lives, New Landscapes - Fairbrother, Nan (Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1972)
New Lives, New Landscapes indeed. This seminal book, published in paperback a year after the death of its author, was one of a number of works that reached beyond the professions to a wider audience. It addressed profound environmental concerns and marked the transition from a post-war to a contemporary society. Nan (Nancy) Fairbrother was born in 1913 and qualified as a landscape architect but drew on a wider background as an English graduate, physiotherapist and writer. Fairbrother was also one of a group of important female contributors in an otherwise maledominated built environment world, and in this light she can be regarded alongside Sylvia Crowe, Elizabeth Denby, Jane Drew and Jane Jacobs. An abiding theme of the book is the concern for the way that people lived, alongside an almost Arts and Crafts preoccupation for what contemporary living required. The New Towns movement, reaching its apogee at the time of writing with the delivery of Milton Keynes and Cumbernauld, was under scrutiny. (provided by publisher)
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