Working-Class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Becontree Estate

ISBN-13: 9780198206507 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 288 str.

Andrzej Olechnowicz

Opis

Built between 1921 and 1934, the London County Council's Becontree Estate was the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in Britain, and, at the time of its planning, in the world. Using interviews with surviving tenants from the inter-year period, Dr Olechnowicz discusses the early years of the estate, looking in detail at the philosophy behind its construction and management, and showing how it eventually came to be denigrated as a social concentration camp.

Recenzje

This is a solid and well-researched book whose admirable footnotes provide biographical details of the major protagonists involved in the development of inter-war housing ... The urban historian will find much in the book to illustrate the social snobbery of England in this period.