Reconstructing public housing : Liverpool's hidden history of collective alternatives / Matthew Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public housing--England--Liverpool--History.

Public housing.

Housing development--England--Liverpool--History.

Housing development.

Housing, Cooperative--England--Liverpool--History.

Housing, Cooperative.

History.

England--Liverpool.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction

1. Introducing Collective Housing Alternatives

Why Collective Housing Alternatives?

Articulating Our Housing Commons

Bringing the State Back In

2. Why Liverpool of All Places?

A City of Radicals and Reformists

A City on (the) Edge?

A City Playing the Urban Regeneration Game

Structure of the Book

pt. II The Housing Question

3. Revisiting the Housing Question

Nouns and Verbs: On the Nature of Value

Exploitation and Alienation: On the Contradictions of Capitalism

Ends and Means: The Point Is to Change It!

4. Liverpool's Co-operative Revolution

Rehabilitating Housing in a SNAP

You Hold the Pen, We'll Tell You What to Draw!

Competition: The Counterintuitive Component of Cooperativism

5. Liberal Compromises: Diluting the Cooperative Revolution?

You Can Have Any House You Like So Long as It's a New-Build Co-op

Utalitarianism (Utilitarian plus Totalitarian): On Form Following Function

Contradictions of Choice: Defensive Urbanism or (Extra)Ordinary Sub-urbanism?

6. Municipalisation: A Militant Response to the Housing Question

A Tory

-Liberal Plot: The Gravedigger of Municipal Housing?

Defensible Principles and (Policy) Design Disadvantagement

Keeping the Cooperative Spirit Alive: The Movement Migrates to Knowsley

pt. III The Neighbourhood Question

7. Locating the Neighbourhood Question

Liverpool's Second Blitz

How to Make Water Flow Uphill

Can Collective Housing Save the City?

8. The Eldonians: From Parish Politics to Global Exemplar

Militant Tactics, Boss Politics, Tribal Loyalties, Friends in High Places

We Do It Better Together: Towards a Self-Regenerating Community

Eldonia: An Independent Micro-State?

9. Cooperative by Name If Not by Nature

Singing the Post-Development Blues: On Revolutionaries Retiring

Third Sector Empire-Building

The Story So Far: How Self-Regenerating, Really?

pt. IV The Urban Question

10. Grappling with the Urban Question

Weapons Wielded against Enclosure of the Commons

Grounding Capitalism in the Land Question

Housing Market Renewal, Neo-Haussmannisation and the New Urban Enclosures

11. Growing Granby from the Grassroots: A (Plant) Potted History

Living through Hell: On the Violence of Managed Decline

Putting the T into CLT; Finishing the Work that SNAP Started

From Success to Failure: A Great British Property Scandal

12. Technocratic Experiment or Experimental Utopia?

Dereliction-by-Design and Transatlantic Knowledge Transfer

Homebaked: Brick by Brick, Loaf by Loaf, We Build Ourselves

Seeing Liverpool's Housing History through a Bifocal Verb

-Noun Lens

pt. V Conclusion

13. Reconstructing Public Housing (History)

In, Against and Beyond Public Housing

How to Answer the Housing, Neighbourhood and Urban Questions?

Using the Master's Tools to Dismantle the Master's House

14. On (Myth) Making History

From Heroic Event to Boring Bureaucratic Process

The Myth of Liverpool Exceptionalism

Recipes for Revolution: From Cultivating Local Delicacies to Sourcing Essential Ingredients

15. Building a Bureaucracy from Below

Dormant, Not Defunct: Self-Funding the Next Co-Op Spring

Realising Municipal Dreams

Recoding the DNA of Collective Alternatives

Artificial Hells, Social Practice and Artistic Spectacle: Who (or What) Is All This For?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-361) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Thompson, Matthew. Reconstructing public housing.

ISBN:

9781789621082

1789621089

OCLC:

1144088509