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A narrative history of council housing-from slums to the Grenfell Tower. Urgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life. In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history of Britain. Rooted in the ambition to end slum living, and the ideals of those who would build a new society, Municipal Dreams looks at how the state's duty to house its people decently became central to our politics. The book makes it clear why that legacy and its promise should be defended. Traversing the nation in this comprehensive social, political and architectural history of council housing, Boughton offers a tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates-some happily ordinary, some judged notorious. He asks us to understand 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; the competing ideologies that have promoted state housing and condemned it; the economic factors that have always constrained our housing ideals; the crisis wrought by Right to Buy; and the evolving controversies around regeneration. Boughton shows how losing the dream of good housing has weakened our community and hurt its most vulnerable-as was seen most catastrophically in the fire at Grenfell Tower.

Housing policy --- Housing policy. --- Low-income housing --- Low-income housing. --- Public housing --- Public housing. --- Working class --- History --- Housing --- Housing. --- Great Britain. --- 728.4 --- 728 --- 351.778.5 --- Verenigd Koninkrijk --- Sociale woningbouw --- Sociale huisvesting (architectuur) --- Woningen (architectuur) --- Woonhuizen (architectuur) --- Volkshuisvesting

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Home to 20 million people and still growing, Greater Cairo mirrors the global phenomenon of unplanned urban growth. Approximately 60 percent of the population of Africa?s biggest city lives in so-called informal housing, typically five-to-ten-story concrete-and-brick-infill structures built without permits in the desert or on former agricultural land. 0The book 'Housing Cairo. The Informal Response' illuminates the architecture of informality and its mechanisms of production through a series of theoretical essays and architectural design proposals. Central to the project is a re-examination of the concept of "informality" itself and its often negative connotations. As the book argues, Cairo?s informal response to housing needs is not a marginal phenomenon, but rather an intelligent, optimized answer to planning incapacities ? an answer that architects and planners should themselves be participating in.

711.4 --- 504 --- Kopenhagen --- Stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Duurzame stedenbouw --- Urbanisme --- City planning --- Géographie --- Geography --- Atlas. --- City and town life --- Sustainable urban development --- Environmental planning --- Private houses --- Economic geography --- urban development --- suburban growth --- new towns [modern settlements] --- Cairo --- Housing --- Tenement houses --- Low-income housing --- Squatter settlements --- Cairo (Egypt) --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- Caïro --- Egypte --- 373.67 --- 728 --- 728.2 --- 351.778.5 --- 711.585 --- 332.8 --- 365 --- 711.16 --- Stadsproblematiek --- Stedelijke problematiek --- 711.4(C)(6) --- Stedenbouw ; architectuur ; Egypte ; Cairo --- Stadsontwikkeling ; Cairo ; 21ste eeuw --- Architectuuronderzoek --- Woningen (architectuur) --- Woningbouw (architectuur) --- Appartementen (architectuur) --- Appartementsgebouwen --- Flatgebouwen --- Woonblokken --- Woontorens --- Collectief wonen --- Collective housing --- Huisvestingsbeleid --- Woonbeleid --- Sloppenwijken --- Leegstand --- Huisvestingsproblematiek --- Stadsvernieuwing --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad ; Afrika --- Squatters --- Logement --- Le Caire (Egypte) --- Conditions sociales --- Sociology of environment --- apartment houses --- squatter settlements --- Egypt --- New towns --- Housing - Egypt - Cairo --- Tenement houses - Egypt - Cairo --- Low-income housing - Egypt - Cairo --- Squatter settlements - Egypt - Cairo --- Cairo (Egypt) - Social conditions --- Géographie