[Book Review] Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea by Julia Winckler Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 407 pages

The seaside suburb of Peacehaven on the South Coast of England has long been seen as an infamous example of unregulated interwar development. When Virginia and Leonard Woolf took their usual walk across the South Downs from Rodmell to the sea after World War One, they were horrified to see a ‘rash of bungalows, shops, shacks, chicken runs, huts and dog kennels’ sprouting from the cliff edge’ [...]