Municipal dreams : the rise and fall of council housing / John Boughton.
Publisher: London : Verso, 2019Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 330 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781784787400
- 9781784787424
- 363.50941 23
- 363.5969420941 23
- HD7288.78.G7 B68 2019
- 83.64
Contents:
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.
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Book-Circulating | Fischer Hall Library Main shelves | HD7288.78. G7B68 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B014719 |
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Originally published as hardback edition in 2018.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.