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

By: Boughton, John, (Historian) [author.]Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.]Publisher: London : Verso, 2018Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781784787417; 9781784787424; 9781784787394Subject(s): Public housing -- Great Britain | Low-income housing -- Great Britain | Working class -- Housing -- Great Britain | Housing policy -- Great Britain -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional Physical Form: Print version: 9781784787394DDC classification: 363.50941 Online resources: Click here to access online - 1 user Also available in print.
Contents:
'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.
List(s) this item appears in: Housing and Planning
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ebook House of Lords Library - Palace Online access ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2020-1497

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'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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