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Utopian Urges: Visions for Reconstruction in Britain, 1940-1950 (2012)
Journal Article
Hollow, M. (2012). Utopian Urges: Visions for Reconstruction in Britain, 1940-1950. Planning Perspectives, 27(4), 569-585. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2012.705126

In popular culture, the 1940s have often been presented as a period in which architects and town planners became caught up in naïve, unrealistic ‘utopian fantasies’ about how to go about rebuilding Britain's bomb-damaged cities. To counter these clai... Read More about Utopian Urges: Visions for Reconstruction in Britain, 1940-1950.

Perfect lives: Lifestyle magazines and utopian impulses in contemporary British society (2012)
Journal Article
Hollow, M. (2012). Perfect lives: Lifestyle magazines and utopian impulses in contemporary British society. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(1), 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877911411792

This article seeks to explore and uncover the ideological and stylistic elements that typify the ways in which contemporary male and female lifestyle magazines present the world to the reader. Focusing on two of the most popular British examples – FH... Read More about Perfect lives: Lifestyle magazines and utopian impulses in contemporary British society.