Editing Coventry (section)

===Urban expansion and development===
[[File:Coventry_Broadgate_1917.jpg|thumb|left|Broadgate, Coventry, in 1917]]

With many of the city's older properties becoming increasingly unfit for habitation, the first [[Council housing|council houses]] were let to their tenants in 1917. With Coventry's industrial base continuing to soar after the end of the [[World War I|Great War]] in 1918, numerous private and council housing developments took place across the city in the 1920s and 1930s to provide housing for the large influx of workers who came to work in the city's booming factories. The areas which were expanded or created in this development included [[Radford, Coventry|Radford]], [[Coundon, Coventry|Coundon]], [[Canley]], [[Cheylesmore]] and [[Stoke Heath, Coventry|Stoke Heath]].{{sfn|Walters|2019|pp=153–169}} [[File:Coventry being redeveloped in 1936.jpg|thumb|Coventry city centre being redeveloped in 1936 during modernisation]]

As the population grew, the city boundaries underwent several expansions, in 1890, 1928, 1931 and 1965,<ref name="BHOLintro">{{cite web |title=The City of Coventry: Introduction |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/pp1-23#h3-0002 |publisher=British History Online |access-date=30 March 2023}}</ref> and between 1931 and 1940 the city grew by 36%.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hunt |first=Cathy |title=A History of Women's Lives in Coventry. |date=2018 |publisher=[[Pen & Sword]] |isbn=9781526708526 }}</ref>

The development of a southern by-pass around the city, starting in the 1930s and being completed in 1940, helped deliver more urban areas to the city on previously rural land. In the 1910s plans were created to redevelop Coventry's narrow streets and by the 1930s the plans were put into action with Coventry's medieval street of Butcher Row being demolished.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-24934919 | title=How medieval Coventry was lost, say historians | work=BBC News | date=14 November 2013 | access-date=9 June 2022}}</ref> even before the war, the plans had been put in place to destroy the medieval character of Coventry.<ref>{{cite news |date=14 November 2013 |title=How medieval Coventry was lost, say historians |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-24934919 |access-date=14 April 2024 |work=BBC News }}</ref>

The [[London Road Cemetery]] was designed by [[Joseph Paxton]] on the site of a former quarry to meet the needs of the city.