Book Description
The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, for 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 Contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Title
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE SPONSORS
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
- 1. URBAN DESIGN IN VICTORIAN LONDON: THE MINET ESTATE IN LAMBETH C.1870 TO 1910
- 2. ‘MILES OF SILLY LITTLE DIRTY HOUSES’: THE LESSONS OF VICTORIAN BATTERSEA
- 3. RENEWABLE PRINCIPLES IN HENRY ASTLEY DARBISHIRE'S PEABODY ESTATES, 1864 TO 1885
- 4. RESIDENTIAL FLATS: DENSIFICATION IN VICTORIAN AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY LONDON
- 5. SOUTH ACTON UNSUSTAINED
- 6. GENTRIFICATION: THE CASE OF CANONBURY, 1850 TO 1975
- 7. HIGH-RISE HOUSING IN LONDON, C.1940 TO C.1970
- 8. ‘WE FELT MAGNIFICENT BEING UP THERE’: ERNŐ GOLDFINGER'S BALFRON TOWER AND THE CAMPAIGN TO KEEP IT PUBLIC
- 9. OUT-OF-SYNC ESTATES
- 10. RECENT APPROACHES TO THE SUSTAINABLE RETROFIT OF VICTORIAN HOUSES
- 11. LESSONS OF THE PAST FOR MY ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
- REFERENCES