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Municipal dreams : the rise and fall of council housing / by John Boughton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Verso, 2018.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 330p. : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781784787394 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.50941 BOU.M
Contents:
Introduction -- 'How to provide housing for the people': origins -- 'The world of the future': the interwar period -- 'If only we will': Britain reimagined, 1940-51 -- 'The needs of the people': council housing, 1945-56 -- 'Get these people out of the slums': 1956-68 -- 'Anti-monumental, anti-stylistic, and fit for ordinary people': 1968-79 -- 'Rolling back the frontiers of the state': 1979-91 -- 'Thrown-away places': 1991-7 -- 'A different kind of community': 1997-2010 -- 'People need homes; these homes need people': 2010 to the present.
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Reference Reference International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research Reference International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research Reference 363.50941 BOU.M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan CMS1175

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 'How to provide housing for the people': origins -- 'The world of the future': the interwar period -- 'If only we will': Britain reimagined, 1940-51 -- 'The needs of the people': council housing, 1945-56 -- 'Get these people out of the slums': 1956-68 -- 'Anti-monumental, anti-stylistic, and fit for ordinary people': 1968-79 -- 'Rolling back the frontiers of the state': 1979-91 -- 'Thrown-away places': 1991-7 -- 'A different kind of community': 1997-2010 -- 'People need homes; these homes need people': 2010 to the present.

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