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OverviewFaced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden suburbs that already exist? Over the first six decades of the twentieth century, councils across Britain created a new and optimistic form of housing – the cottage estates of ‘corporation suburbia’. By the early 1960s these estates provided homes with gardens for some 3 million mainly working-class households. It was a mammoth achievement. But, because of what then happened to council housing over the later years of the century, this is not very often appreciated. In Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow, Martin Crookston suggests that making the most of the assets which this housing offers is a positive story – it can be positive for housing policy; for councils and their ‘place-making’ endeavours; and for the residents of the estates. This is especially important when all housing market and development options are so constrained, and likely to remain so for the next decade or more. Following an examination of what the estates of ‘corporation suburbia’ are and what they are like, there follow chapters on specific examples from different parts of the country, on how they are affected by the workings of the housing market, and then – not unconnectedly – on how attitudes to this socially-built stock have evolved. Then the final chapters try to draw out the potentials, and to suggest what future we might look for in corporation suburbia in the twenty-first century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martin CrookstonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.385kg ISBN: 9781138688919ISBN 10: 1138688916 Pages: 188 Publication Date: 14 March 2016 Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Cottage Estates and Their Successors 3. Two London Estates 4. In the North East 5. Radburbland: The Later Post-War Suburbs 6. Threads 7. Market Patterns and Roles 8. Attitudes 9. Potentials: A Lazy Housing Asset? 10. A Lazy Economic Asset? 11. An Untapped Land/Development Asset? 12. Are We Missing on ‘Community Assets’? 13. The Potentials, and the Things We Might Do 14. The Corporation Suburbs in the Twenty-First CenturyReviewsThis simply is crucial reading for we regeneration types, and moreover, for anyone looking to solve the housing crisis...This is a timely and brilliant intervention, by a man who knows his subject better than anyone in this field. Politicians need to sit up and take note - Jackie Sadek, Regeneration & Property, EstatesGazette.com The book should delight planning practitioners, academics and their students alike by tackling the inherent assumptions that are all too often lazily made about municipally built estates. - Angela Connelly, Planning Perspectives This simply is crucial reading for we regeneration types, and moreover, for anyone looking to solve the housing crisis...This is a timely and brilliant intervention, by a man who knows his subject better than anyone in this field. Politicians need to sit up and take note - Jackie Sadek, Regeneration & Property, EstatesGazette.com The book should delight planning practitioners, academics and their students alike by tackling the inherent assumptions that are all too often lazily made about municipally built estates. - Angela Connelly, Planning Perspectives Author InformationMartin Crookston is an independent strategic planning consultant. Recent assignments have focused on housing market renewal in the North and Midlands, on East London’s Olympic ‘Legacy’ plans, and on urban strategy in the UAE. He was a member of the Urban Task Force, and is a Trustee of the CPRE and a Board Member of Architecture and Design Scotland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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