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Model Estate (Routledge Revivals)

- Planned Housing at Quarry Hill Leeds

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Quarry Hill Flats, once both the pride and shame of its city of Leeds, was an iconic Modernist symbol of the 1930s. It marked the first use of a prefabricated building system for a large-scale council estate, replacing a notorious slum. But it lasted barely a generation ΓÇô its complete demolition was announced as Alison Ravetz was finishing this study. First published in 1974, this book is unique in its use of all estate records from conception to destruction, as well as in its comprehensive approach, including aspects usually missing in council housing studies ΓÇô notably the intimate experience of residents, and a fraught, long-drawn-out building period. Ravetz argues that the FlatsΓÇÖ ΓÇÿfailureΓÇÖ was due not to social breakdown, as repeatedly alleged, but rather to a rigidity of design and management unable to accommodate gradual, incremental change. This has continuing implications for the operation of bureaucratically designed and controlled ΓÇÿsocial housingΓÇÖ today.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780415855945
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 252
  • Udgivet:
  • 13. november 2014
  • Størrelse:
  • 216x137x15 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 368 g.
  • BLACK WEEK
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 9. december 2024

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Quarry Hill Flats, once both the pride and shame of its city of Leeds, was an iconic Modernist symbol of the 1930s. It marked the first use of a prefabricated building system for a large-scale council estate, replacing a notorious slum. But it lasted barely a generation ΓÇô its complete demolition was announced as Alison Ravetz was finishing this study. First published in 1974, this book is unique in its use of all estate records from conception to destruction, as well as in its comprehensive approach, including aspects usually missing in council housing studies ΓÇô notably the intimate experience of residents, and a fraught, long-drawn-out building period. Ravetz argues that the FlatsΓÇÖ ΓÇÿfailureΓÇÖ was due not to social breakdown, as repeatedly alleged, but rather to a rigidity of design and management unable to accommodate gradual, incremental change. This has continuing implications for the operation of bureaucratically designed and controlled ΓÇÿsocial housingΓÇÖ today.

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