Municipal Dreams
The history of council housing
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The Pepys Estate, Deptford: from ‘Showcase’ to ‘Nightmare’
We left the Pepys Estate, recently constructed and a prestige GLC scheme, in a good place last week. It was popular and well-regarded: (1)
People were fighting to move onto [the Estate] and the lucky ones felt privileged. They were proud...
The Pepys Estate, Deptford: for ‘the peaceful enjoyment and well-being of Londoners’
The Pepys Estate was famous, then it was infamous, now it just looks and feels like a pretty decent place to live. It was a GLC showpiece before it became (or was portrayed as) a ‘nightmare’. Its stories of crime and race and controversial...
The LCC and the Arts II: the ‘Patronage of the Arts’ Scheme
Last week’s post looked at the LCC’s open-air sculpture exhibitions but arguably the more significant contribution to the worthy attempt to bring art to the people lay in its ‘Patronage of the Arts Scheme’ inaugurated in 1956. By 1964 when...
The LCC and the Arts I: The Open-Air Sculpture Exhibitions
If we remember 1945 at all – and it seems, sadly, an increasingly distant memory – we remember it for its principles of a free and national health service, a system of social security (not ‘welfare’ or ‘benefits’) in which a common duty to...
Stepney’s Early Town Halls: ‘fine commodious buildings’
London’s boroughs celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2015; of these, Tower Hamlets has had a more colourful history than most. Now the borough has a directly elected executive mayor and local governance might – on the face of it – seem re...
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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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