Description
Product ID: | 9780415239462 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Planning, History and Environment Series |
Title: | Council Housing and Culture |
Subtitle: | The History of a Social Experiment |
Authors: | Author: Alison Ravetz |
Page Count: | 272 |
Subjects: | Housing and homelessness, Housing & homelessness, Human geography, The environment, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Human geography, The environment, Urban & municipal planning |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian online Born of idealism, and once an icon of the Labour movement and pillar of the Welfare State, council housing is now nearing its end. But do its many failings outweigh its positive contributions to public health and wellbeing? |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-06-28 |