Council Housing and Culture makes clear the importance of council housing to twentieth-century life and culture. A major thread through the work is the interaction of council housing with evolving working-class patterns and aspirations.
This is a comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people.
This title was written as a concise guide for the non-specialist to the origins and evolution of British planning, its intellectual pedigree, achievements and cruxes. It is an invaluable background to the state of planning and the cases for and against it today.
This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and... Læs mere