Estates: an intimate history

by Hanley, Lynsey

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Title Statements

Full title :Estates : an intimate history / Lynsey Hanley.

Summary

"Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and 70s." "Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from 'Homes Fit for Heroes' to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, a book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Granta
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:256 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781862079090, 1862079099
oclc:ocn979179572
Dewey Decimal:363.58509410904

Subjects

City planning -- Social aspects City planning -- Social aspects -- 20th… Great Britain Hanley, Lynsey History Homes Logement social -- Histoire -- 20e sièc… Public housing Public housing -- History -- 20th centu…