Municipal Dreams

Municipal Dreams
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781784787394
ISBN-13 : 1784787396
Rating : 4/5 (396 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Municipal Dreams by : John Boughton (Historian)

Download or read book Municipal Dreams written by John Boughton (Historian) and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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