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UNINA9910815956403321 |
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Autore |
Hodkinson Stuart |
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Titolo |
Safe as houses : private greed, political negligence and housing policy after Grenfell / / Stuart Hodkinson |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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1-5261-3001-7 |
1-5261-5464-1 |
1-5261-2998-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 pages) |
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Collana |
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The Manchester capitalism book series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public housing - Great Britain - Design and construction - Finance |
Public housing - Management - Contracting out - Great Britain |
Housing policy - Great Britain |
Logement social - Grande-Bretagne |
Politique du logement - Grande-Bretagne |
Incendies - Grande-Bretagne |
Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of boxes, figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Privatisation and the death of public housing -- 2 Outsourcing on steroids -- 3 Partners for improvement? Corporate vandalism inIslington and Camden -- 4 Not fit for purpose -- 5 The accountability vacuum -- 6 Follow the money -- 7 After Grenfell -- Appendix. List of formal interviews cited in the book -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.0Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. He has worked for the last decade with residents groups in council regeneration projects across London. As residents have been shifted out of 60s and 70s |
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