Editing Cambridge (section)

=== 20th and 21st centuries ===
From the 1930s to the 1980s, the size of the city was increased by several large [[council estate]]s.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15307 |chapter=Chesterton: Introduction |pages=5–13 |editor1-last=Wright |editor1-first=A. P. M. |editor2-last=Lewis |editor2-first=C.P. |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1989 |title=A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9: Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds  |series=Victoria History of the Counties of England |access-date=6 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305141125/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15307 |archive-date=5 March 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> The biggest impact has been on the area north of the river, which are now the estates of [[East Chesterton]], [[King's Hedges]], and [[Arbury]] where [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishop]] [[Rowan Williams]] lived and worked as an assistant priest in the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Rowan's Rule: the biography of the Archbishop |first=Rupert |last=Shott |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-340-95433-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3kJbJ7ldSJsC&pg=PT83 |page=83 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |location=London |access-date=8 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622030201/https://books.google.com/books?id=3kJbJ7ldSJsC&pg=PT83 |archive-date=22 June 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During [[World War II]], Cambridge was an important centre for defence of the east coast. The town became a military centre, with an [[RAF]] training centre and the regional headquarters for [[Norfolk]], [[Suffolk]], [[Essex]], [[Cambridgeshire]], [[Huntingdonshire]], [[Hertfordshire]], and [[Bedfordshire]] established during the conflict.<ref name="british-history-66605" /> The town itself escaped relatively lightly from German bombing raids, which were mainly targeted at the railway. 29 people were killed and no historic buildings were damaged. In 1944, a secret meeting of military leaders held in Trinity College laid the foundation for the allied invasion of Europe.<ref name="british-history-66609" /> During the war Cambridge served as an [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|evacuation centre]] for over 7,000 people from London, as well as for parts of the [[University of London]].<ref name="british-history-66605" />

Cambridge was granted its [[city status in the United Kingdom|city charter]] in 1951 in recognition of its history, administrative importance and economic success.<ref name="british-history-66605" /> Cambridge does not have a cathedral, traditionally a prerequisite for city status, instead falling within the Church of England [[Diocese of Ely]]. In 1962, Cambridge's first shopping arcade, Bradwell's Court, opened on Drummer Street, though this was demolished in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christslane.co.uk/about/timeline.htm |title=Christ's Lane |publisher=Land Securities |date=n.d. |access-date=13 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907115715/http://www.christslane.co.uk/about/timeline.htm |archive-date=7 September 2008 }}</ref> Other shopping arcades followed at Lion Yard, which housed a relocated Central Library for the city, and the [[Grafton Centre]] which replaced Victorian housing stock which had fallen into disrepair in [[The Kite, Cambridge|the Kite]] area of the city. This latter project was controversial at the time.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1467625/Derek-Taunt.html|title=Derek Taunt&nbsp;– Obituary|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=23 July 2004|access-date=26 February 2012|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830224507/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1467625/Derek-Taunt.html|archive-date=30 August 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

The city gained its second university in 1992 when Anglia Polytechnic became Anglia Polytechnic University. Renamed [[Anglia Ruskin University]] in 2005, the institution has its origins in the Cambridge School of Art opened in 1858 by [[John Ruskin]].