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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172258403321

Autore

Power Anne

Titolo

Hovels to high rise : state housing in Europe since 1850 / / Anne Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

0-585-45627-5

0-203-42078-0

1-280-32156-3

1-134-87854-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 p.)

Disciplina

351.86094

363.5/85/094

Soggetti

Housing authorities - Europe

Housing policy - Europe

Public housing - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Definitions; Introduction; Background; Early housing developments; After the Second World War; Social landlords; Private housing; Difficult-to-manage estates; Current issues and conclusions; Background; The development of German housing from the Industrial Revolution to the Second World War; Post-war housing; Housing in the 1970s and 1980s; The Neue Heimat crisis; Changes in the 1980s; Housing change in East Germany; Summary of the current German housing pattern, and conclusions; Background

Early housing developmentsAfter the First World War; After the Second World War; Council landlords; Decline in private renting; rise in owner-occupation; Legislative changes of the Thatcher years; A changing public role; Conclusions; Background; Development of social housing; After the Second World War; Private house-building; Social housing organisation and tenants' democracy; Conditions in the 1980s; The rescue of mass housing areas; Post-

Sommario/riassunto

This takes the historical, political and social changes relating to housing in five European countries, and considers the housing history



and traditions which have lead to growing tensions within their most disadvantaged communities.