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The politics of housing : power, consumers and urban culture / Peter Shapely.
Lippincott Library HD7334.A3 S53 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapely, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Housing policy--England.
- Housing policy.
- Low-income housing--England--History--20th century.
- Low-income housing.
- Low-income housing--England--Manchester--History--20th century.
- History.
- England--Manchester.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. The national framework. Government, local authorities and housing, 1919-87
- National interpretations
- pt. 2. The rise of municipal housing. Civic culture, voluntarism and council intervention
- Slum houses, slum dwellers and slum clearance
- The post-war housing problem and the great overspill drive
- pt. 3. The decline of municipal legitimacy: inner-city developments and tenants' reactions, 1962-92. New slums and the rising tide of tenant anger
- New slums, New Left and new partnership
- Conclusion: consumers, locality and discourse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719074332
- 0719074339
- OCLC:
- 154789144
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