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Municipal dreams : the rise and fall of council housing / John Boughton.
By: Boughton, John, (Historian) [author.]
.Publisher: London : Verso, 2018Description: 330 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784787394; 9781784787417; 9781784787424.Subject(s): Public housing -- Great Britain | Low-income housing -- Great Britain | Working class -- Housing -- Great Britain | Housing policy -- Great Britain -- HistoryAdditional Physical Form: Electronic version: 9781784787417DDC classification: 363.50941 Also available online.
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. 'How to provide housing for the people': origins -- 2. 'The world of the future': the interwar period -- 3. 'If only we will': Britain reimagined, 1940-51 -- 4. 'The needs of the people': council housing, 1945-56 -- 5. 'Get these people out of the slums': 1956-68 -- 6. 'Anti-monumental, anti-stylistic, and fit for ordinary people': 1968-79 -- 7. 'Rolling back the frontiers of the state': 1979-91 -- 8. 'Thrown-away places': 1991-7 -- 9. 'A different kind of community': 1997-2010 -- 10. 'People need homes; these homes need people': 2010 to the present.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 363.50941 BOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 015127 |
Introduction -- 1. 'How to provide housing for the people': origins -- 2. 'The world of the future': the interwar period -- 3. 'If only we will': Britain reimagined, 1940-51 -- 4. 'The needs of the people': council housing, 1945-56 -- 5. 'Get these people out of the slums': 1956-68 -- 6. 'Anti-monumental, anti-stylistic, and fit for ordinary people': 1968-79 -- 7. 'Rolling back the frontiers of the state': 1979-91 -- 8. 'Thrown-away places': 1991-7 -- 9. 'A different kind of community': 1997-2010 -- 10. 'People need homes; these homes need people': 2010 to the present.
Also available online.