This book presents an important episode in the twentieth-century history of the United Kingdom: the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in Britain (and at the time of its planning, in the world). Built between 1921 and 1934, the London County council's Becontree Estate housed over 110.000 people in 25,000 dwellings. Andrzej Olechnowicz discusses the early years of the estate, looking in detail at the philosophy behind its construction and management policies, and showing how it eventually came to be denigrated as a social concentration camp exemplifying all the political dangers of a mass culture. He investigates life on the estate, both through an appraisal of the facilities provided and , as far as possible, through the eyes of the inhabitants, using interviews with surviving tenants from the inter-war period. Thus he is able to show how high rents excluded many families in greatest housing need, and how tenants found it difficult to adjust to the costs of suburban living. This is a wide ranging study that deals with both the `nuts and bolts' of mass housing, with ideas on citizenship and the creation of communities.
| ISBN: | 9780198206507 |
| Publication date: | 9th January 1997 |
| Author: | Andrzej Tutorial Fellow, Tutorial Fellow, St Hughs College, Oxford Olechnowicz |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Historical Monographs |
| Genres: |
General and world history Welfare and benefit systems Economic history |
This book presents an important episode in the twentieth-century history of the United Kingdom: the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in Britain (and at the time of its planning, in the world). Built between 1921 and 1934, the London County council's Becontree Estate housed over 110.000 people in 25,000 dwellings. Andrzej Olechnowicz discusses the early years of the estate, looking in detail at the philosophy behind its construction and management policies, and showing how it eventually came to be denigrated as a social concentration camp exemplifying all the political dangers of a mass culture. He investigates life on the estate, both through an appraisal of the facilities provided and , as far as possible, through the eyes of the inhabitants, using interviews with surviving tenants from the inter-war period. Thus he is able to show how high rents excluded many families in greatest housing need, and how tenants found it difficult to adjust to the costs of suburban living. This is a wide ranging study that deals with both the `nuts and bolts' of mass housing, with ideas on citizenship and the creation of communities.
Working-Class Housing in England between the Wars features in the following genres: General and world history, Welfare and benefit systems, Economic history
Working-Class Housing in England between the Wars is available in Hardback
Working-Class Housing in England between the Wars was written by Andrzej Tutorial Fellow, Tutorial Fellow, St Hughs College, Oxford Olechnowicz and published by Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press
Working-Class Housing in England between the Wars has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Historical Monographs series
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