Municipal dreams : the rise and fall of council housing / John Boughton.

Main entry:

Boughton, John (Historian), author.

Title & Author:

Municipal dreams : the rise and fall of council housing / John Boughton.

Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.

Description:

330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
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.

Summary:

A narrative history of council housing. In every city and town across Britain, there are swathes of housing provided by the state - from the 'homes for heroes' built after the First World War to the tower blocks of the sixties, in styles ranging from arts and crafts to brutalist. As so much of this housing is privatised and some demolished, historian John Boughton recovers the story of the hopes of the men and women who dreamed of good homes for all and the travails such ambition suffered. 'Municipal Dreams' presents an alternative history of the United Kingdom. This history begins in the slum clearances of the late nineteenth century and the aspirations of those who would build anew.

ISBN:

9781784787394 (hardback)
1784787396 (hardback)
9781784787400 (paperback)
178478740X (paperback)
(electronic book UK edition)
9781784787417
1784787418
(electronic book US edition)
9781784787424
1784787426

Subject:

Public housing Great Britain History.
Low-income housing Great Britain History.
Working class Housing Great Britain History.
Housing policy Great Britain History.
Logement social Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Pauvres Logement Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Travailleurs Logement Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Logement Politique gouvernementale Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Housing policy
Low-income housing
Public housing
Working class Housing
Wohnungsbaupolitik
Sozialer Wohnungsbau
Society.
Great Britain
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301095
Call No.: BIB 247302
Status: Available

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