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020			_a9781784787400
100			_9735 _aJohn Boughton
245			_aMunicipal Dreams _bThe Rise and Fall of Council Housing
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bVerso _c2018
300			_a384 pp
500			_aKeywords: housing, council housing, government housing, urban planning
520			_aA narrative history of council housing from slums to the Grenfell Tower Municipal Dreams presents an alternative history of the United Kingdom. This history begins in the slum clearances of the late nineteenth century and the aspirations of those who would build anew. John Boughton looks at how and why the state 's duty to house its people decently became central to our politics. Traversing the nation, Boughton offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, as well as many accounted ordinary; he asks us to understand better their complex story and to rethink our prejudices. His accounts include extraordinary planners and architects who wished to elevate working men and women through design and the politicians, high and low, who shaped their work, the competing ideologies which have promoted state housing and condemned it, the economics which has always constrained our housing ideals, the crisis wrought by Right to Buy, and the evolving controversies around regeneration. He shows how the loss of the dream of good housing for all is a danger for the whole of society as was seen in the fire in Grenfell Tower.
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