Municipal Dreams
The history of council housing
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The Castle Vale Estate, Birmingham, Part II: ‘a dignified low-rise estate’
We left Castle Vale last week, an undoubtedly troubled estate, damaged by the construction flaws specific to much system-built housing of the sixties and beset by the social problems affecting estates across the country as a traditional wor...
The Castle Vale Estate, Birmingham, Part I: ‘Utopia’ to ‘civic pigsty’
In January 2016, David Cameron promised, as part of a new ‘blitz’ on poverty, to rebuild one hundred of the worst council estates in the country – the so-called ‘sink estates’ of ‘brutal high-rise towers and dark alleyways that are a gift t...
Book Review: Stephen Willats, Vision and Reality
Stephen Willats, Vision and Reality (Uniformbooks, 2016)
Stephen Willats has been one of the most interesting and innovative artists in Britain for many decades. To those who see the significance of art as existing beyond the academy and t...
Post-War Housing in Hackney: ‘Far removed from the pre-war conception of “council flats”‘
The drive towards high-rise housing which began in the late 1950s is often crudely represented as evidence of the inhumanity of architects and planners and the megalomania of their local authority enablers. Leaving aside, for the time being...
The Meadow Well Estate, North Shields II: ‘decent people living on a decent estate’
Last week’s post looked at the origins of the Meadow Well Estate and concluded these weren’t an adequate explanation either of its long-term stigma or the 1991 riots. This week’s examines what followed.
If Meadow Well became the classic ‘p...
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I am the author of 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso, 2019) and 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books, 2023).
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