Mark Clapson

Working-class suburb

Social change on an English council estate, 1930-2010

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Produktbeschreibung

An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing, housing policy, and key issues in urban studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780719079511
• ISBN-10: 0719079519
• Artikelnr.: 35451088

Autorenporträt

MARK CLAPSON was Professor of Social and Urban History at the University of Westminster and is the author of Working-Class Suburb: Social Change on an English Council Estate, 1930-2010 (2012) and An Education in Sport (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and orientation 2. The delayed birth of the Whitley Estate
3. Building a community during the 1930s 4. Whitley at War 5. New
beginnings: postwar expansion 6. Social change, social problems and social
action in postwar Whitley 7. Leisure and the limits of social exclusion 8.
Whitley and the wider world Bibliography Index