Denby, Elizabeth.

Europe re-housed / by Elizabeth Denby ; with a foreward by Lord Horder.

2d ed.

London : Allen & Unwin, 1944.

285 pages, 32 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

This book is the outcome of eight years' practical experience of slum clearance and rehousing in London, followed by a year's investigation of the low-rented estates which have been built on the Continent since 1918. The author set out primarily to discover how the housing problem was being tackled abroad. What were the national habits of life? How did other countries retain or create the beauty of their towns and country-side? In the industrial areas, had they escaped from the smoke pall, the mean streets, the imprisonment in ugliness? Had they slum areas, and if so how were they dealing with them? How and where did people work and play in relation to their homes? Was the expenditure being justified both from the financial point of view and from that of increase of human happiness? She visited Sweden, Denmark, Finland,Holland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy,Hungary and Czechoslovakia, but for the sake of simplicity she has limited the countries described to two winners in the War, two losers and two neutrals. -- from dust jacket.

Housing Europe.
Housing.
Social conditions
Europe Social conditions.
Europe Conditions sociales.
Europe.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 115635
Cote: ID:86-B3276
Statut: Disponible