Name: Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (en Inglés)
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Author: John Boughton
ISBN: 9781784787400

portada Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Verso

Autor

John Boughton

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781784787400

Categorías

Planificación y gestión urbana y municipal

Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (en Inglés)

John Boughton (Autor) · Verso · Tapa Blanda

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A narrative history of council housing--from slums to the Grenfell Tower Urgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life. In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history of Britain. Rooted in the ambition to end slum living, and the ideals of those who would build a new society, Municipal Dreams looks at how the state's duty to house its people decently became central to our politics. The book makes it clear why that legacy and its promise should be defended. Traversing the nation in this comprehensive social, political and architectural history of council housing, Boughton offers a tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates--some happily ordinary, some judged notorious. He asks us to understand 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; the competing ideologies that have promoted state housing and condemned it; the economic factors that have always constrained our housing ideals; the crisis wrought by Right to Buy; and the evolving controversies around regeneration. Boughton shows how losing the dream of good housing has weakened our community and hurt its most vulnerable--as was seen most catastrophically in the fire at Grenfell Tower.