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The category groupings that follow are general owing to the overlap in subject matter among the papers many of which fall into more than one category. This rather arbitrary list is intended as a starting point for your housing research and is by no means a definitive guide.
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Foundation reading<\/strong><\/h2>\nGraham Towers thesis – this above all<\/strong><\/p>\nRe-forming multi-storey housing: the regeneration of urban housing estates in Britain<\/a><\/p>\nChristoper W. Bacon<\/strong><\/p>\nStreets in the Sky: The rise and fall of the Modern architectural Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nalthough I haven’t yet read this Anne Power is always worth listening to<\/p>\n
Anne Power thesis<\/strong><\/p>\nThe development of unpopular council housing estates and attempted remedies<\/a><\/p>\n[Towers and Power HT @municipaldreams<\/a>]<\/p>\nProf Michael Edwards<\/strong> UCL on the housing crisis<\/p>\nThe housing crisis: too difficult or a great opportunity?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Housing standards and design<\/strong><\/p>\nHomes for Today and Tomorrow<\/a> – Parker Morris committee 1961<\/p>\nInterim London Housing Design Guide<\/a> – Alex Ely MAE August 2010<\/p>\nLondon housing SPG<\/a> – Mayor of London<\/p>\nLondon County Council architects department<\/a> – Elain Harwood<\/p>\nThe failure of housing<\/a> – Nicholas Taylor<\/p>\nThe Village in the City<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Nicholas Taylor 1973<\/p>\nReview of a speech<\/a> by A.W. Cleeve-Barr<\/a> to the RIBA in the 1960s<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Defensible Space<\/strong><\/p>\nDefensible Space<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Oscar Newman<\/p>\nCreating defensible space – the pdf<\/a><\/p>\nUtopia on Trial<\/a> – Alice Coleman<\/p>\nThe Psychology of Housing<\/a> – Alice Coleman<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Wordle4_th\"](\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wordle4_th.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nWordle from Planned housing as a social trap<\/a><\/p>\nDesign Disadvantagement<\/a>\u00a0– Alice Coleman ->\u00a0get pdf here<\/a><\/p>\nPlanned housing as a social trap<\/a> – Alice Coleman<\/p>\nCity of Alice’s dreams<\/a> – Bill Hillier<\/p>\nPoverty and Depressed Estates: Critique – Utopia on Trial<\/a> – Paul Spicker<\/p>\nReview of Utopia on Trial from a blogger<\/a> – Known Pleasures blog<\/p>\nWriting on the Wall<\/a> – Horizon 1974 – Youtube<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Regeneration and gentrification<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Affordable Housing Con<\/a> – London Tenants Federation<\/p>\nStaying Put: An Anti-Gentrification Handbook<\/a> – Prof Loretta Lees<\/p>\nHousing and sustainability: demolition or refurbishment?<\/a> – Prof Anne Power<\/p>\nRegeneration Realities Urban Pamphleteer #2<\/a>\u00a0– Prof Loretta Lees P.6<\/p>\nDemolition or refurbishment of social housing?<\/a>\u00a0– UCL Urban Lab<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Case studies<\/strong><\/p>\nThe death of a housing ideal<\/a> \u00a0– Heygate<\/p>\n
\nGlasgow<\/strong><\/p>\nOverspill policy and the Glasgow Slum Clearance<\/a> Project in the Twentieth
\nCentury: From One Nightmare to Another?<\/p>\nHistory, politics and vulnerability:<\/a> explaining excess mortality in\u00a0Scotland and Glasgow<\/p>\nTenements<\/a> by Ian Jack<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\n<\/div>\nAn essay on the provision of council housing, with special reference to Killingworth<\/a> – P J Taylor<\/p>\nDecolonizing the New Town:<\/div>\n Roy Gazzard and the Making of Killingworth Township<\/a><\/div>\nKillingworth towers<\/a>\u00a0– photographs<\/p>\nHulme Crescents<\/a> – Peter Shapley<\/p>\nEstate Regeneration<\/a>\u00a0– Mozart – Lowenfeld –\u00a0pages<\/a><\/p>\nEstate Regeneration<\/a>\u00a0– Mozart – Westminster<\/p>\nTackling Vandalism<\/a> – Sheena Wilson and others 1976<\/p>\nHackney Vandal Patrol<\/a> (Kingsmead) 1976 –\u00a0Sheena Wilson appears in the film<\/p>\nThe Essex Design Guide<\/a> – thanks to much missed Adil Hussein<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Politics and Society<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Death and Life of Great American Cities<\/a> – Jane Jacobs 1961<\/p>\nFamily and Kinship in East London<\/a> – Wilmott & Young 1957<\/p>\nWhere will we live?<\/a> – James Meek<\/p>\nThatcher’s legacy is in ruins, but Britain is still in its thrall<\/a> – Seamus Milne<\/p>\nWhat is living and what is dead in social democracy?<\/a> – Tony Judt<\/p>\nProfessor Judt changes trains<\/a> – Obituary by Geoffrey Wheatcroft TLS<\/p>\nDespair on the frontline of Britain’s homelessness crisis<\/a> – Shelter<\/p>\nSocial housing and tenant participation<\/a> – History & Policy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The Seventies<\/strong><\/p>\nHow Jim Callaghan changed the world<\/a> – Neil Clark<\/p>\nThe Tory years<\/a> – a view from Wings over Scotland<\/a><\/p>\nJames Callaghan: a great PM<\/a> – from the Guardian<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Right to buy<\/strong><\/p>\nSafe as houses<\/a> – John Harris<\/p>\nFrank Field in the Guardian and my response<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Other<\/strong><\/p>\nLondon: the unique city<\/a>\u00a0– Peter Hall<\/a> – from City Villages<\/a><\/p>\nEstates: an Intimate History<\/a>\u00a0– Lynsey Hanley – Independent review<\/a><\/p>\nDo sties make pigs?<\/a> – Theodore Dalrymple<\/p>\nThe New Brutalism<\/a> – Reyner Banham<\/p>\nNew Brutalism<\/a> –\u00a0Dr John W Nixon<\/p>\nThe Paul Watt papers<\/a>\u00a0– Dr Paul Watt<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Film<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are so many but you might like to\u00a0begin with these:-<\/p>\n
Housing Problems 1935<\/a>\u00a0– watch this first<\/p>\nCity of Towers<\/a> –\u00a0BBC\u00a01979 – review here<\/a>\u00a0– History of Modernism<\/p>\nHigh Rise Dreams<\/a> – BBC 2003 – review here<\/a>\u00a0– Miscellany<\/p>\nHomes for Heroes<\/a> – BBC 2005 – review here<\/a>\u00a0– Miscellany<\/p>\nA Home of your own<\/a> – BBC 1995 – review here<\/a>\u00a0– Birmingham<\/p>\n
Re-forming multi-storey housing: the regeneration of urban housing estates in Britain<\/a><\/p>\n Christoper W. Bacon<\/strong><\/p>\n Streets in the Sky: The rise and fall of the Modern architectural Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n although I haven’t yet read this Anne Power is always worth listening to<\/p>\n Anne Power thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n The development of unpopular council housing estates and attempted remedies<\/a><\/p>\n [Towers and Power HT @municipaldreams<\/a>]<\/p>\n Prof Michael Edwards<\/strong> UCL on the housing crisis<\/p>\n The housing crisis: too difficult or a great opportunity?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Housing standards and design<\/strong><\/p>\n Homes for Today and Tomorrow<\/a> – Parker Morris committee 1961<\/p>\n Interim London Housing Design Guide<\/a> – Alex Ely MAE August 2010<\/p>\n London housing SPG<\/a> – Mayor of London<\/p>\n London County Council architects department<\/a> – Elain Harwood<\/p>\n The failure of housing<\/a> – Nicholas Taylor<\/p>\n The Village in the City<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Nicholas Taylor 1973<\/p>\n Review of a speech<\/a> by A.W. Cleeve-Barr<\/a> to the RIBA in the 1960s<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Defensible Space<\/strong><\/p>\n Defensible Space<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Oscar Newman<\/p>\n Creating defensible space – the pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Utopia on Trial<\/a> – Alice Coleman<\/p>\n The Psychology of Housing<\/a> – Alice Coleman<\/a><\/p>\n Wordle from Planned housing as a social trap<\/a><\/p>\n Design Disadvantagement<\/a>\u00a0– Alice Coleman ->\u00a0get pdf here<\/a><\/p>\n Planned housing as a social trap<\/a> – Alice Coleman<\/p>\n City of Alice’s dreams<\/a> – Bill Hillier<\/p>\n Poverty and Depressed Estates: Critique – Utopia on Trial<\/a> – Paul Spicker<\/p>\n Review of Utopia on Trial from a blogger<\/a> – Known Pleasures blog<\/p>\n Writing on the Wall<\/a> – Horizon 1974 – Youtube<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Regeneration and gentrification<\/strong><\/p>\n The Affordable Housing Con<\/a> – London Tenants Federation<\/p>\n Staying Put: An Anti-Gentrification Handbook<\/a> – Prof Loretta Lees<\/p>\n Housing and sustainability: demolition or refurbishment?<\/a> – Prof Anne Power<\/p>\n Regeneration Realities Urban Pamphleteer #2<\/a>\u00a0– Prof Loretta Lees P.6<\/p>\n Demolition or refurbishment of social housing?<\/a>\u00a0– UCL Urban Lab<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Case studies<\/strong><\/p>\n The death of a housing ideal<\/a> \u00a0– Heygate<\/p>\n Glasgow<\/strong><\/p>\n Overspill policy and the Glasgow Slum Clearance<\/a> Project in the Twentieth History, politics and vulnerability:<\/a> explaining excess mortality in\u00a0Scotland and Glasgow<\/p>\n An essay on the provision of council housing, with special reference to Killingworth<\/a> – P J Taylor<\/p>\n Killingworth towers<\/a>\u00a0– photographs<\/p>\n Hulme Crescents<\/a> – Peter Shapley<\/p>\n Estate Regeneration<\/a>\u00a0– Mozart – Lowenfeld –\u00a0pages<\/a><\/p>\n Estate Regeneration<\/a>\u00a0– Mozart – Westminster<\/p>\n Tackling Vandalism<\/a> – Sheena Wilson and others 1976<\/p>\n Hackney Vandal Patrol<\/a> (Kingsmead) 1976 –\u00a0Sheena Wilson appears in the film<\/p>\n The Essex Design Guide<\/a> – thanks to much missed Adil Hussein<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Politics and Society<\/strong><\/p>\n The Death and Life of Great American Cities<\/a> – Jane Jacobs 1961<\/p>\n Family and Kinship in East London<\/a> – Wilmott & Young 1957<\/p>\n Where will we live?<\/a> – James Meek<\/p>\n Thatcher’s legacy is in ruins, but Britain is still in its thrall<\/a> – Seamus Milne<\/p>\n What is living and what is dead in social democracy?<\/a> – Tony Judt<\/p>\n Professor Judt changes trains<\/a> – Obituary by Geoffrey Wheatcroft TLS<\/p>\n Despair on the frontline of Britain’s homelessness crisis<\/a> – Shelter<\/p>\n Social housing and tenant participation<\/a> – History & Policy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Seventies<\/strong><\/p>\n How Jim Callaghan changed the world<\/a> – Neil Clark<\/p>\n The Tory years<\/a> – a view from Wings over Scotland<\/a><\/p>\n James Callaghan: a great PM<\/a> – from the Guardian<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Right to buy<\/strong><\/p>\n Safe as houses<\/a> – John Harris<\/p>\n Frank Field in the Guardian and my response<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other<\/strong><\/p>\n London: the unique city<\/a>\u00a0– Peter Hall<\/a> – from City Villages<\/a><\/p>\n Estates: an Intimate History<\/a>\u00a0– Lynsey Hanley – Independent review<\/a><\/p>\n Do sties make pigs?<\/a> – Theodore Dalrymple<\/p>\n The New Brutalism<\/a> – Reyner Banham<\/p>\n New Brutalism<\/a> –\u00a0Dr John W Nixon<\/p>\n The Paul Watt papers<\/a>\u00a0– Dr Paul Watt<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Film<\/strong><\/p>\n There are so many but you might like to\u00a0begin with these:-<\/p>\n Housing Problems 1935<\/a>\u00a0– watch this first<\/p>\n City of Towers<\/a> –\u00a0BBC\u00a01979 – review here<\/a>\u00a0– History of Modernism<\/p>\n High Rise Dreams<\/a> – BBC 2003 – review here<\/a>\u00a0– Miscellany<\/p>\n Homes for Heroes<\/a> – BBC 2005 – review here<\/a>\u00a0– Miscellany<\/p>\n A Home of your own<\/a> – BBC 1995 – review here<\/a>\u00a0– Birmingham<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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