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Model Estate (Routledge Revivals): Planned Housing at Quarry Hill Leeds book cover

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Model Estate (Routledge Revivals) Planned Housing at Quarry Hill Leeds

By Alison Ravetz Copyright 1974
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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Quarry Hill Flats, once both the pride and shame of its city of Leeds, was an iconic Modernist symbol of the 1930s. It marked the first use of a prefabricated building system for a large-scale council estate, replacing a notorious slum. But it lasted barely a generation – its complete demolition was announced as Alison Ravetz was finishing this study. First published in 1974, this book is unique... Read more

Illustrations;  Figures;  Tables;  Acknowledgements;  1. The city and the poor: inherited constraints and contradictions of municipal housing  2. Working-class housing and town planning in Leeds up to 1940  3. The genesis of Quarry Hill Flats  4. Experimental building and its consequences: the Mopin system in practice  5. Social functions of the model environment: the estate populations  6. Community by design: forms of social life on the model estate  7. Social causes of physical change: the devolution of the model estate  8. Private lives and the model estate  9. Conclusions: methods, assessments and futures of model environments;  Postscript January 1974;  Appendix : Quarry Hill Flats Tenants’ Association proposals, 1949;  Appendix II: The 1969 Survey of Quarry Hill Flats;  References;  Name Index;  Subject Index

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Alison Ravetz

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