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Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces
Anne Power; John Houghton
(2007)
Paperback - 280 pages
Policy Press
ISBN: 1861346581
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw, which are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal. How did our major cities become so divided? How do they respond to housing and neighbourhood decay? "Jigsaw City" examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second largest city and pioneer of the modern urban order, as our strongest model of the drive to create public solutions to private squalor is in three parts. Through looking at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, the authors explore: the origins of Britain's acute urban decline; the idea that "one size doesn't fit all"; the continuing urban flight that traps the poor and pays the rich to move out. The book will attract policymakers in cities and government; it will help students of social science, regeneration bodies, community organisations and environmental specialists. The style of the book with its live examples and hands-on experience is extremely accessible in spite of its strong historic background. Its unique 'insider' perspective on policy making and practical impacts offer a useful and unusual perspective.
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Estates: An Intimate History
Lynsey Hanley
(2007)
Paperback - 256 pages
Granta Books
ISBN: 1862079099
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Britain's council estates have become a media shorthand for poverty, social mayhem, drugs, drink and violence - the social ills they were built to cure. How did homes built to improve people's lives end up doing the opposite? Is their reputation fair, and if so who is to blame? Inhabitants? Politicians? Planners? Architects? Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and 70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from 'Homes Fit for Heroes' to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.
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Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
(2006)
Hardcover - 240 pages
Verso Books
ISBN: 1844670228
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In this brilliant and ambitious book Mike Davis charts the expected global urbanisation explosion over the next thirty years and points out that outside China most of the rest of the world's urban growth will be without industrialisation or development, rather a 'perverse' urban boom in spite of stagnant or negative urban economic growth. With a third of the global urban population living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence, on huge populations. He shows also how poverty not only grew massively in the 1990s (when the IMF policies of the 1980s were supposed to reap huge rewards) but how the gap between rich and poor countries expanded and how women and minorities fell further behind. Mike Davis argues that this enormous population of marginalised labourers is not a frenzied beehive of ambitious entrepreneurs but an 'active' unemployed, who have no choice but to subsist by some means or starve, in an arena of extreme Darwinian competition amongst the poor. It is a stagnant ferment which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.
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Neighbourhoods That Work: A Study of the Bournville Estate, Birmingham
Rick Groves, Alan Middleton, Alan Murie, Kevin Broughton
(2003)
Paperback - 72 pages
The Policy Press
ISBN: 1861345380
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This study provides the results from major original research addressing issues which are central to current debates about social cohesion and neighbourhood renewal. The research focuses on Bournville - a successful, mixed tenure residential neighbourhood in Birmingham. The findings of the study contribute to current debates about social capital and policy responses designed to achieve more balanced and cohesive neighbourhoods. It challenges simplistic approaches which tend to advocate the social engineering of mixed tenure developments, changes to allocation policies or the disposal of socially rented housing into ownership as ways of achieving 'successful' neighbourhoods.
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Modern House
John Welsh
(1999)
Paperback - 240 pages
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0714838373
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The 20th century has produced some of the most innovative and memorable designs for private houses, which have become architectural icons worldwide. In the 1920s and 1930s, the private house was the means by which architects established the early Modern Movement, and clients looked favourably on commissioning the avant garde. Today, the house is enjoying an architectural renaissance, as private clients have returned to architects to express their wealth and status. The result is a collection of innovative projects that reveal some of the real concerns of world-famous architects, and display the talents of younger designers eager to establish their reputations. The 30 houses from around the world included in this book were completed in the 1990s, revealing developments in house design by notable contemporary architects, and demonstrating continuing links with the work of the early 20th-century masters.
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Housing Policy and Practice
Peter Malpass, Alan Murie
(1999 - 5th Edition)
Paperback - 320 pages
Palgrave, formerly Macmillan Press
ISBN: 0333731891
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Established as the leading text in the field, this new, thoroughly revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive account of the current issues, set in a clear historical context. It assesses the legacy of eighteen years of Conservative governments and the initial policy impact of New Labour and the problems and challenges it now confronts. This book remains essential reading for all who wish to understand and contribute to determining the pace and direction of change in housing into the twenty-first century.
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Home Front - New Developments in Housing
L.G. Bullivant
(2003)
Paperback - 128 pages
Wiley-Academy
ISBN: 047084874X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Housing for the people. What opportunities exist for this democratic ideal in urban environments now that the scope for publicly funded architecture is being curtailed in so many countries by the free market? Who are breaking the boundaries to create innovative housing stock? Answering the universal need for public housing, as well as addressing the universe of approaches to the problem, this text examines the latest thinking, from a roster of international contributors, on every facet of the subject. Offering a sampling of attitudes and climates, the book's contributors hail from every segment of the globe: the U.K., the East and West Coasts of the US, Sweden, Japan and Austrailia.
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Estates on the Edge
Anne Power
(1998)
Paperback - 464 pages
Palgrave, formerly Macmillan Press
ISBN: 0333746031
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This text recounts the decline and rescue of low income government sponsored housing estates across Northern Europe giving an account of the intense physical, social and organizational problems facing social landlords in five countries. The ownership, management and letting patterns diverge sharply between the Continent, Britain and Ireland, between council landlords, non profit, co-operative and independent landlords. But their community problems reveal similar trends towards poverty, polarization and incipient breakdown. To avert the threat of incipient ghettos the stabilizing pressures need to be stronger than the growing pressures towards chaos. Governments have become directly involved in estate rescue because of the vital social role estates are playing. The text traces the process of decline and renewal and shows how we can learn the lessons of policy failures and successes.
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Ecohouse 2
Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, Stephanie Thomas
(2003)
Paperback - 352 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750657340
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
"Ecohouse" tells you how to design low-energy, environmentally friendly buildings. It provides the foundations for building design in a warming world, and shows how to take the first step towards the zero-carbon emission buildings of tomorrow. Here Sue Roaf reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realization of her ideals. By using her own house as a case study, Roaf guides the reader through the ideas for energy efficient design or "eco design". This edition introduces additional sections including earth sheltering and reed beds. It also explores ten case studies of ecohouses, and covers six examples of eco-villages from around the world. It offers a useful and comprehensive reference for architects, designers and their clients, as well as self-builders, who wish to help make sustainable design a reality.
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Dwellings: Living with Great Style
Stephen Sills, Michael Boodro, James Huniford
(2003)
Hardcover - 224 pages
Imported Little, Brown USA titles
ISBN: 0821228463
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A guide to creating a beautiful home from Stephen Sills and James Huniford - interior designers whose work is lauded by such clients as Vera Wang, Anna Wintour and Tina Turner. The book brings the luxury and sensuality of Sills Huniford's signature style to such practical concerns as integrating technology into the home, devising the most flexible floor plan and getting the most out of a small space and modest budget. Every aspect of style is addressed in clear language, detailing each basic design lesson, and their understanding of atmosphere, colour and design is brought to life in photographs that prove both inspiring and practical.
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A Century of Interior Design
Stanley Abercrombie
(2003)
Paperback - 240 pages
Universe Publishing (Incorporated, Div. of Rizzoli)
ISBN: 0847825329
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
More than four hundred full-colour and black-and-white photographs highlight a survey of twentieth-century interior design, showcasing the work the changes that occurred in design principles, furniture, fabrics, accessories, and other key elements over one hundred years.
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