Main entry:

Glendinning, Miles, 1956-

Title & Author:

Tower block : modern public housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland / Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993.

Description:

viii,420p : ill. (some col.) ; 30cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sect. I. Design. pt. A. The Modern Dwelling: Plan, Fittings, Construction. 1. The Search for the New: The Postwar Definition of Modern Architecture. 2. Inside the Dwelling: Size, Plan, Fittings, Heating. 3. Need and Fit: Type of Household and Type of Dwelling. 4. The Case for Flats and Maisonettes. 5. Mixed Development. 6. Daylight and Densities: Zeilenbau and Open Space. 7. Multi-Storey Architecture in the 1950s: Point Block versus Slab Block. 8. Very High Blocks. 9. Services Outside the Flat and Access. 10. New Construction: Reinforced Concrete and Prefabrication. 11. New Construction and Appearance. The Modern Public Authority Dwelling. pt. B. 'Community Life': A Postwar Architectural Stimulus. 12. A Welfare State Utopia. 13. Town Planning: Communal Open Space and Housing Layout; The Neighbourhood Unit. 14. The Sociology of Community: From Social Reform to Scepticism and Nostalgia. 15. The Modern Architect in Public Housing: Publicity and Criticism; Theory.
16. 'Solving, Architecturally, the Most Difficult of Social Problems'. 17. New Socio-Architectural Catchwords: Space, Urban, Townscape, 'Prairie Towns', Urban Redevelopment. 18. The Smithsons: Association and Communication; Team Ten. 19. Infinite Possibilities of Design in the 1960s -- Sect. II. Production. pt. A.A Municipal Crusade: Modern Flats and the Defence of Housing Production in Britain. 20. The Land Trap: Multi-Storey Flats Versus Overspill. 21. Central Government, Local Government and Housing Production in the 1950s. 22. Quantity or 'Quality'? Defeat of the Designers. 23. Financing and Organising the 1960s Housing Drive. 24. Package Dealers and Negotiators: Housing Production and the Building Boom. pt. B. Scottish, English and Welsh Housing in the 1960s: National, Regional, Local Variations. 25. 'Give the People Homes!' Scotland's Housing Blitzkrieg. 26. The Curate's Egg: Provincial Initiatives in England and Wales. 27. Break-up of an Empire: Reorganisation in London.
pt. C. Northern Ireland's Housing Revolution. 28. The Pursuit of 'Parity'. 29. The Great Leap Forward: Production in the 1960s -- Sect. III. Breakdown. 30. The Rejection of Modern Design. 31. End of the Drive: The Collapse of 'Production'. 32. 'New Slums': Management Problems and the Undermining of Production. 33. Conclusion: 'Utopia' on Trial? -- Appendix: High Flats in the Channel Islands -- MAPS (showing administrative boundaries): Central Clydeside; Economic Planning Regions of England and Wales; West Midlands; South East Lancashire; West Yorkshire; Merseyside; Tyneside; Greater London -- Gazetteer 1: Multi-Storey Developments Erected by Public Housing Authorities in the UK and Channel Islands since 1945 -- Gazetteer 2: A Selection of References to Public Housing in the UK from 'National' Periodicals, Chiefly Architectural, c. 1945-1970.

ISBN:

0300054440
9780300054446

Subject:

Public housing Great Britain.
High-rise apartment buildings Great Britain.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture and society Great Britain.
Logement social Grande-Bretagne.
Immeubles d'habitation en hauteur Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern.
High-rise apartment buildings.
Public housing.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Muthesius, Stefan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 111387
Call No.: ID NA7540.G58; ID:94-B744
Status: Available