The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation: In Place of Squalor

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Abominations of squalor: Slum clearance in Labour thought
	Down with the slums: 1945–64
	Race and ‘squalor’
	The move to improvement: 1964–70
2 Down with the old, up with the new: Labour and urban planning
	Towns for our times: Labour and the logic of urban planning
	‘The practical application of socialist principles’: The New Towns
	The heights of modernity: High-density housing and urban transformation
	Labouring the land: Labour and the politics of land control
	The power of ideal environments
3 ‘An elementary social need’: Reconstructing housing for the twentieth century
	Housing as a social service: Labour and council housing
	Private property or public ownership: Labour and the private landlord
	Castles for all: Labour and owner-occupation
	‘To stand still is to decline’: The failure of housing as a social service
4 Workers’ cottages and tall towns: Class, community and the modern home
	Getting rid of class barriers? Class, affluence and modern homes
	Designing modern communities: Labour and the social sciences
	The politics of progressive design: Modern architecture and socialism
	‘Our new homes are a model to the world’
Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index