John Boughton

A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'It was like heaven! It was like a palace, even without anything in it ... We'd got this lovely, lovely house.' In 1980, there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain, housing around one third of the population.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000786835
• Artikelnr.: 66291283

Autorenporträt

John Boughton is the author of Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing and the blog Municipal Dreams, a record of local government reform and council estates across Great Britain. The book has been an Amazon best seller in its category and was selected by Rowan Moore as an Observer Book of the Year. The blog has had over 1.5 million views and 970,000 visitors.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction CHAPTER 1: A 'Prehistory' of Social Housing - early parish and charitable provision; 19th century sanitary reform and building regulation; philanthropic provision 1. Almshouses and Parish Housing 1. Powis Almshouses
Chepstow 2. Parish provision in Mursley
Buckinghamshire 2. Sanitary and building reform and regulation 3. Footdee
Aberdeen 3. Philanthropic provision 4. Peabody: Peabody Square
Islington 5. Artizans'
Labourers' and General Dwellings Company: Noel Park
Haringey 6. Edinburgh Co-Operative Building Company: Edinburgh Colonies CHAPTER 2: 1890-1914 - varying early forms of local authority housing and some co-partnership models 1. Municipal tenements and cottage flats 7. Millbank Estate
London 8. Hornby Street
Liverpool 2. Balcony access 9. High School Yards
Edinburgh 10. Valette Buildings
Hackney 3. Garden villages and co-partnership models 11. Burnage GV
Manchester/Brentham Garden Suburb
Ealing 4. Garden Suburbs 12. Flower Estate
Sheffield 13. Old Oak Estate
Hammersmith CHAPTER 3: 1914-1930 - the impact of the First World War; the influence of evolving policy choices on housing forms in the 1920s; prefabrication and other forms of provision 1. Munitions estates 14. Rosyth Garden City
Scotland 15. Well Hall
Greenwich 2. 'Homes for Heroes' 16. Moulescombe Estate
Brighton 17. Wollaton Park
Nottingham 18. Townhill Estate
Swansea 19. Moss Park
Glasgow 20. Sea Mills or Hillfields
Bristol 21. Becontree Estate
London 3. Early forms of prefabrication 22. Nissen-Petren Houses
Yeovil 23. Norris Green
Liverpool (Boot houses) 4. Housing associations 24. St Pancras Housing Association CHAPTER 4: 1930-1939 - the policy shift to slum clearance and rehousing; new forms of tenement housing; architectural debates and the relative insignificance of Modernism in Britain 1. Slum clearance estates 25. Knowle West
Bristol 26. Deckham Hall Estate
Gateshead 27. Wythenshawe Estate
Manchester 2. New-style tenements 28. White City
London 29. Liverpool's 1930s flats 30. Lennox House
Hackney 3. Modernist design 31. Kensal House
London 32. Quarry Hill
Leeds CHAPTER 5: 1940-1955 - the significance of wartime planning; temporary and permanent prefabs; Bevan houses; neighbourhood units; mixed development; Radburn; New Towns and Expanded Towns; model rural council housing; the origins of multi-storey 1. Temporary and permanent prefabs 33. Inverness Road and Humber Doucy Lane
Ipswich 34. Bilborough Estate
Nottingham (BISF and No-Fines houses) 2. Early post-war 35. Minerva Estate
Tower Hamlets 36. Pollok
Glasgow 37. The Creggan
Derry/Londonderry 3. Bevan houses 38. Moorlands Estate
Bath 39. Ermine Estate
Lincoln 40. Gaer Estate
Newport 4. Neighbourhood units 41. Lansbury Estate
Poplar 42. Stowlawn
Bilston (Reilly Greens) 43. Rathcoole Estate
Newton Abbey
Northern Ireland 44. New Parks Estate
Leicester 5. Mixed development 45. Somerford Grove
Hackney 46. Orlando Estate
Walsall 47. Churchill Estate
London 6. Radburn 48. Queen's Park
Wrexham 49. Middleton Estate
Gainsborough 7. New Towns and Expanded Towns 50. Crawley New Town 51. Cwmbran New Town
Wales 52. Cumbernauld New Town
Scotland 53. Thetford
Norfolk (expanded town) 8. Rural council housing 54. Elwy Road Estate
Rhos on Sea
Wales 55. Tayler and Green
Loddon RDC 9. Early multi-storey 56. Redcliffe flats
Bristol CHAPTER 6: 1956-1968 - New-style suburban estates; the rise of multi-storey; deck access; system-building and high-rise 1. New-style suburban estates (and a 'New City') 57. Gleadless Valley
Sheffield 58. Alton East and West
London 59. Cranbrook Estate
Bethnal Green 60. Chinbrook Estate
Lewisham 61. Orchard Park
Hull 62. Craigavon New City
Co. Armagh
Northern Ireland 2. Multi-storey 63. Loughborough Road
Southwark 64. Aberdeen Multis 65. Red Road
Glasgow 66. Pepys Estate
Lewisham 67. Divis Flats
Belfast 68. Wyndham Court
Southampton 3. Deck access 69. Park Hill
Sheffield 70. Hyson Green
Nottingham 71. Killingworth
Newcastle 4. System-building and high-rise 72. Pendleton Estate
Salford (early 1960s) 73. Red Road
Glasgow (mid 1960s) 74. Freemason's Estate (Ronan Point) (1966) CHAPTER 7: 1968-1979 - Developing forms of high-rise; the backlash against high-rise in the form of rehabilitation
municipalisation and low-rise
high-density forms; alternative models of social housing provision 1. High-Rise and multi-storey 75. North Peckham
London 76. Derwent Tower
Whickham 77. Dawson's Heights
Southwark 78. Coralline Walk and Binsey Walk
Thamesmead 2. Low-rise
high-density 79. Ketts Hill
Norwich 80. Duffryn
Newport 81. Cressingham Gardens
Lambeth 82. Dunboyne Road
Camden83. Dartmouth Park Hill
Camden 3. Rehabilitation 84. General Improvement Area study 4. Municipalisation 85. Municipalisation in Islington 5. Short-life and Housing Coops 86. Sanford Housing Coop
New Cross CHAPTER 8: 1980s-1990s - the sea-change of 1979; new emphasis on regeneration and a revival of traditional streetscapes; new models of provision emphasising cross-subsidy and the role of the third sector; alternative models 1. Regeneration 87. North Hull Estate (HAT) 88. Raffles Estate
Carlisle 89. Hulme
Manchester 90. Five Estates
Peckham 91. Broadwater Farm
Haringey 2. Self-build 92. Segal
Lewisham CHAPTER 9: 2000s - contemporary regeneration; newbuild; sustainable housing 1. Regeneration 93. Sighthill
Glasgow (Transformational Regeneration Area) 2. Newbuild 94. Donnybrook Quarter
Tower Hamlets/Ordnance Rd
Enfield (Peter Barber) 95. Dujardin Mews
Enfield (Karacusevic Carson) 96. Scottish new build (Midlothian/West Lothian/?) 97. Richeson Close
Bristol 3. Sustainable housing 98. Chester-Balmore Scheme
Camden 99. Wilmcote House
Portsmouth 100. Goldsmith Street
Norwich Afterword A brief discussion of the current shifting and contested regarding social housing; a hopeful prediction or manifesto of the forms that new social housing might take. (500-750 words)