Working-class housing in England between the wars : the Becontree Estate / Andrzej Olechnowicz.

Main entry:

Olechnowicz, Andrzej.

Title & Author:

Working-class housing in England between the wars : the Becontree Estate / Andrzej Olechnowicz.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Description:

273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Oxford historical monographs

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-264) and index.
1. The London County Council and the Housing Problem -- 2. Incomes and Expenditures -- 3. Local Services and Jobs -- 4. Civic Pride and Local Politics -- 5. The Ideology of the New Estates Community Committee -- 6. The Use of Leisure.

Summary:

This book presents an important episode in twentieth-century English history: the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in England (and at the time of its planning, in the world). Built between 1921 and 1934, the London County Council's Becontree Estate housed over 110,000 people in 25,000 dwellings. Andrzej Olechnowicz discusses the early years of the estate, looking in detail at the philosophy behind its construction and management policies, and showing how it eventually came to be denigrated as a social disaster exemplifying all the political dangers of mass culture. He investigates life on the estate, both through an appraisal of the facilities provided and, as far as possible, through the eyes of the inhabitants, using interviews with surviving tenants from the inter-war period. Thus he is able to show how high rents excluded many families in greatest housing need, and how tenants found it difficult to adjust to the costs of suburban living. This is a wide-ranging study that deals with both the 'nuts and bolts' of mass housing, and with ideas on citizenship and the creation of communities.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

019820650X
9780198206507

Subject:

Public housing England Essex Case studies.
Public Housing history
Logement social Angleterre Essex Études de cas.
Public housing.
Sozialer Wohnungsbau
Arbeiter
Wohnen
Public housing England Essex 20th century.
Geschichte 1921-1934.
Geschichte 1921-1939.
England Essex.
London Becontree Estate.
Medical Humanities.

Form/genre:

Case studies.

Added entries:

Oxford historical monographs.

Becontree Estate

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136123
Call No.: ID HD7233.A3.O64; ID:97-B931
Status: Available

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