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OverviewThis book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based largely on the oral testimony and memoir of residents and former residents, youth and community workers, borough Councillors, officials, police officers and architects. What emerges is not a simple story of definitive failures, but one of texture and complexity, struggle and accord, family and friends, and of rapidly changing circumstances. The study spans the years 1967 to 2010 – from the estate’s ambitious inception until the first of its blocks were pulled down. It is a period rarely dealt with by historians of council housing, who have typically confined themselves to the years before or after the 1979 watershed. As such, it demonstrates how shifts in housing policy, and broader political, economic and social developments, came to bear on a working-class community – for good and, more especially, for ill. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael RomynPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9783030514792ISBN 10: 303051479 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 20 September 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2.'The End of Slums' and the Rise of a 'Housing Disaster', 1945 – 1970.- 3. Community, in all its Complexity, 1970 – 1979.- 4. Plotting a Map to Marginality, 1979 – 1997.- 5. New Deal? Aylesbury Regenerated, 1997 – 2010.- 6. Conclusions.ReviewsAuthor InformationMichael Romyn received an AHRC-funded PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. He has published essays in Planning Perspectives and The London Journal. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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