Estates : an intimate history / Lynsey Hanley.

Main entry:

Hanley, Lynsey, 1976-

Title & Author:

Estates : an intimate history / Lynsey Hanley.

Publication:

London : Granta, 2007.

Description:

244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244).
1. This must be the place (I waited years to leave) -- 2. The end of the slums : the rise of the council estate -- 3. Slums in the sky : the fall of the council estate -- 4. The wall in the head -- 5. Begin afresh -- 6. Homes fit for living in.

Summary:

Writing with passion, humour, and a sense of history, Lynsey Hanley recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and 70s.

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ISBN:

9781862079090 (pbk.)
1862079099 (pbk.)

Subject:

Hanley, Lynsey, 1976- Homes and haunts.
Hanley, Lynsey, 1976-
Public housing Great Britain History 20th century.
City planning Social aspects Great Britain History 20th century.
Logement social Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning Social aspects.
Homes.
Public housing.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250450
Call No.: BIB 179950
Status: Available

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