Main entry:

Ravetz, Alison.

Title & Author:

Council housing and culture : the history of a social experiment / Alison Ravetz.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Description:

vi, 262 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Series:

Planning, history, and the environment series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-255) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. A Domestic Revolution: Poverty, Respectability and Housing Reform -- Ch. 3. Housing for the Poor -- Ch. 4. The Utopian Roots of Council Housing -- Ch. 5. The Artistic Inspiration of Council Housing -- Ch. 6. Garden City to Council Estate -- Ch. 7. The Utopian Legacy -- Ch. 8. The Management of Council Housing -- Ch. 9. 'Community' on Council Estates -- Ch. 10. Patterns of Working-Class Life -- Ch. 11. Estate Histories -- Ch. 12. Turning Points: The Parameters at the Turn of the Century.

Summary:

"Here is a retrospective and history of this particular type of housing. It makes clear the importance of council housing to modern life and culture, both at a personal and a societal level. Council housing is germane to issues of crucial importance to today's world: how a society should regard and treat its poor; the perennial problem of the individual's relationship to the state, the alleged obsolescence of socialism; and the relevance, place and purpose of utopian thought and practice in modern society. This is a definitive text on council housing, which will be essential for students of housing, planning, social policy and geography."--Jacket.

Resources:
2001.
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415239451
9780415239455
041523946X (pbk.)
9780415239462 (pbk.)

Subject:

Public housing Great Britain History 20th century.
Public housing Social aspects Great Britain History 20th century.
Low-income housing Great Britain History 20th century.
Housing policy Great Britain History 20th century.
Logement social Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Logement social Aspect social Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Pauvres Logement Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Logement Politique gouvernementale Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Housing policy.
Low-income housing.
Public housing.
Public housing Social aspects.
Social conditions
Public housing Great Britain History.
Public housing Social aspects Great Britain History.
Low-income housing Great Britain History.
Great Britain Social conditions 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Planning, history, and the environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219828
Call No.: HD7288.78.G7 R3 2001
Status: Available