1st Edition
Homes Fit For Heroes The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain
By Mark Swenarton
Copyright 1981
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Homes fit for Heroes looks at the pledge made 100 years ago by the Lloyd George government to build half a million ‘homes fit for heroes’ – the pledge which made council housing a major part of the housing system in the UK. Originally published in 1981, the book is the only full-scale study of the provision and design of state housing in the period following the 1918 Armistice and remains the... Read more
List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction
1. The Legacy of the Garden City Movement
2. Housing and the State Before 1914
3. The Wartime Housing Programme
4. The Drift of Policy 1916-19
5. A New Standard for State Housing
6. The Cabinet and the Housing Campaign
7. The Ministry and the Housing Campaign
8. House-Building in London and York
Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Mark Swenerton
