Description
Book SynopsisThe problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, aimed at anyone with a professional or personal interest in improving housing provision everywhere, aims to inspire by offering in-depth studies of London's housing past and seeks to provide sustainable solutions for the future by linking to wider contemporary historical and social contexts.
This book will influence today’s housing debates through showcasing lessons from the past and highlights examples that inform the present. The buildings assessed in these case studies will be measured in terms of their longevity, sustained popularity, livability, average densities and productivity.
The research and case studies from the book provide an invaluable resource for academics of architecture, urban design, sociology, history and geography as well as professionals, policy makers and journalists.
Table of ContentsForeword - Owen Hatherley
Preface - Andrew Saint
Introduction - Peter Guillery and David Kroll
Chapter 1: Urban Design in Victorian London: The Minet Estate in Lambeth 1870 to c. 1910 - David Kroll
Chapter 2: Miles of Silly Little Dirty Houses: The Lessons of Victorian Battersea - Colin Thom
Chapter 3: Renewable Principles in H A Darbishire's Peabody Estates 1864-1885 - Irina Davidovici
Chapter 4: Residential Flats: Densification in Victorian and Early 20th-Century London - Richard Dennis
Chapter 5: South Acton Unsustained - Peter Guillery
Chapter 6: High Social Housing in London c.1940-1970 - Simon Pepper
Chapter 7:
‘We felt magnificent being up there’: Ernő Goldfinger's Balfron Tower and the campaign to keep it public - David Roberts
Chapter 8: Out-of-Sync Estates - Ben Campkin
Chapter 9: Gentrification: The Case of Canonbury - Tanis Hinchcliffe
Chapter 10: Victorian Houses: Recent Approaches to Sustainable Retrofit - Sofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll
