TY - GEN AU - Boughton, John TI - Municipal dreams : the rise and fall of council housing SN - 9781784787400 U1 - 363.5 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Verso KW - N1 - Contents Introduction 1 1 'How to Provide Housing for the People': Origins 7 2 'The World of the Future': The Interwar Period 31 3 'If Only We Will': Britain Reimagined, 1940-51 61 4 'The Needs of the People': Council Housing, 1945—56 86 5 'Get These People Out of the Slums': 1956-68 108 6 'Anti-Monumental, Anti-Stylistic, and Fit for Ordinary People': 1968-79 139 7 'Rolling Back the Frontiers of the State': 1979-91 169 8 'Thrown-Away Places': 1991-7 196 9 'A Different Kind of Community': 1997-2010 219 10 'People Need Homes; These Homes Need People': 2010 to the Present 252 Acknowledgements 289 Illustration Credits 291 Notes 293 Index 319 ER -