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Slums And Redevelopment: Policy And Practice In England, by J.A. Yelling

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By J.A. Yelling

According to extensive documentary study , this can be the 1st full-scale learn of the politics of the slum query in England among the realm wars, and of linked coverage and perform within the fields of housing and city making plans. it's the moment quantity in a trilogy which started with "Slums and Slum Clearance" (Allen & Unwin 1986) and that's accomplished with a 3rd quantity overlaying the interval given that 1945. From the early Victorian interval to the Nineteen Seventies, the query of slums occupied a major position in British politics and in housing and city making plans guidelines. The inter-war interval has significant sights. It sees the recovery of slum clearance following a interval of competition and the onset of the 1st nationwide slum clearance crusade. It reaches its climax within the plans for large-scale redevelopment made in the course of global conflict II. even if slum clearance constructed from nineteenth-century notion and perform, inner-city redevelopment of this type had its highbrow origins within the Thirties. actions resembling slum clearance had a dramatic influence on these humans and areas affected, yet political formulations of the slum query additionally had a lot wider repercussions for estate and social coverage. particularly, they'd a huge position in shaping differences that experience marked glossy British towns: among private and non-private housing, internal urban and suburbs, residence and flat. As a learn of perform in addition to coverage, it is a significant unique paintings on a subject of frequent curiosity during the historical past, geography, city stories and making plans groups. it is going to be an necessary resource for these drawn to slum stipulations, redevelopment and housing perform, even if in an old or modern context, and it discusses problems with foreign relevance. This ebook is meant for city historians, historic geographers, historians of housing and making plans, scholars and researchers in modern housing and making plans reviews.

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In this way, support could be given to “self contained garden cities”, and congestion relieved without a continuous spread of the builtup area. This solution, however, required major changes in current practice: control over transport, some means of influencing the location of industry, and a new local government and planning structure. [26] Moreover, it commanded a wide range of support cutting across party lines. The most notable exemplar of this in the reconstruction period was Herbert Morrison, the new leader of the London Labour Party.

24 Slums and homes for heroes A sharp division then emerged, for “the official attitude in regard to the extension of the government grant was distinctly hostile”. “The President desired that the Council should take a wide view of its position in the matter, extending practically to assuming some responsibility for the housing of all people of the working classes working in London”. [7] Nonetheless, Walker stuck to the council’s view that action should be directed against unfit housing, as “it is a kind of work to benefit most those who are poorest and most unsuitably housed; it belongs peculiarly to local government authorities”.

Homes for heroes: a study of the evolution of British public housing 1915–1921. London: Seely Service; Swenarton, M. 1981. Homes fit for heroes: the politics and architecture of early state housing in Britain. London: Heinemann. Addison, C. 1922. The betrayal of the slums. London: Hubert Jenkins. MM 16 Feb. 1915. HC 16 Jan. (19) 1918. MM 15 Oct. 1918. HC 16 Jan. (19) 1918, 16 May (19) 1918. , 10 July (8) 1918. MM 23 July (26) 1919, HC 23 Oct. (12) 1919. HC 19 Feb. (18) 1919. MM 18 Feb. (29) 1919, HC 5 Feb.

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