Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing - Softcover

Boughton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178478740X ISBN 13: 9781784787400

Verlag: Verso, 2019

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Traversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing in Britain. John Broughton asks us to understand better their complex story and to rethink our prejudices. His accounts include extraordinary planners and architects who wished to elevate working men and women through design and the politicians, high and low, who shaped their work, the competing ideologies which have promoted state housing and condemned it, the economics which has always constrained our housing ideals, the crisis wrought by Right to Buy, and the evolving controversies around regeneration. He shows how the loss of the dream of good housing for all is a danger for the whole of society - as was seen in the fire in Grenfell Tower.

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John Boughton is a social historian whose blog Municipal Dreams is one of the most widely read and respected chronicles of council housing’s past and present. He talks on housing to a wide range of audiences and has supported a number of housing campaigns. He has previously published in the Historian and Labor History. He lives in London. He blogs at municipaldreams.wordpress.com.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178478740X
• ISBN 13: 9781784787400
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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