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Boughton, John (Historian),

Municipal dreams : the rise and fall of council housing / John Boughton. - Paperback edition. - 330 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Originally published as hardback edition in 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 'How to provide housing for the people': origins -- 'The world of the future': the interwar period -- 'If only we will': Britain reimagined, 1940-51 -- 'The needs of the people': council housing, 1945-56 -- 'Get these people out of the slums': 1956-68 -- 'Anti-monumental, anti-stylistic, and fit for ordinary people': 1968-79 -- 'Rolling back the frontiers of the state': 1979-91 -- 'Thrown-away places': 1991-7 -- 'A different kind of community': 1997-2010 -- 'People need homes; these homes need people': 2010 to the present.

ISBN: 9781784787400 9781784787424

LCCN: 2017051179

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB977046 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 019382404 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Public housing--History.--Great Britain
Low-income housing--History.--Great Britain
Working class--Housing--History.--Great Britain
Housing policy--History.--Great Britain

LC Class. No.: HD7288.78.G7 / B68 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 363.50941 363.5969420941