Mobilising Housing Histories

Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, aimed at 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-03-01
Mått210 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt858 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagRIBA Publishing
ISBN9781859466315

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Peter Guillery is an architectural historian and editor for the Survey of London, the topographical series founded in 1894, now part of the Bartlett School of Architecture. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and serves on the committees of the Centre for Metropolitan History and the London Journal.David Kroll is an architect with experience in professional practice, academic teaching and research. He is a lecturer in architecture at the University of South Australia and has held lecturing positions at the University of East London, University of Kent and Anglia Ruskin University.

Foreword - Owen HatherleyPreface - Andrew SaintIntroduction - Peter Guillery and David KrollChapter 1: Urban Design in Victorian London: TheMinet Estate in Lambeth 1870 to c. 1910 - David KrollChapter 2: Miles of Silly Little Dirty Houses: The Lessons of Victorian Battersea - Colin ThomChapter 3: Renewable Principles in H A Darbishire's Peabody Estates 1864-1885 - Irina DavidoviciChapter 4: ResidentialFlats: Densification in Victorian and Early 20th-Century London - Richard DennisChapter 5: South Acton Unsustained - Peter GuilleryChapter 6: High Social Housing in London c.1940-1970 - Simon PepperChapter 7: ‘We feltmagnificent being up there’: Ernő Goldfinger's Balfron Tower and the campaignto keep it public - David RobertsChapter 8: Out-of-Sync Estates - Ben CampkinChapter 9: Gentrification: The Case of Canonbury - Tanis HinchcliffeChapter 10: Victorian Houses: Recent Approaches to Sustainable Retrofit - Sofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll