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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:A Roundtable Discussion of Guy Ortolano’s Thatcher’s Pro
 gress
DESCRIPTION:During the quarter of a century after the Second World War\, 
 the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across En
 gland\, Scotland\, Wales\, and Northern Ireland. Why\, even befo
 re selling council houses or denationalising public industri
 es\, did Margaret Thatcher's government begin to privatise th
 ese new towns? By examining the most ambitious of these proj
 ects\, Milton Keynes\, Guy Ortolano recasts our understanding 
 of British social democracy\, arguing that the new towns comp
 rised the spatial dimension of the welfare state. Following 
 the Prime Minister's progress on a tour through Milton Keyne
 s on 25 September 1979\, Ortolano alights at successive stops
  to examine the broader histories of urban planning\, moderni
 st architecture\, community development\, international consul
 ting\, and municipal housing. Thatcher's journey reveals a dy
 namic social democracy during its decade of crisis\, while al
 so showing how public sector actors begrudgingly accommodate
 d the alternative priorities of market liberalism.
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