Contents
Acknowledgements iv
About the Sponsors v
About the Contributors vii
Foreword Owen Hatherley xiii
Preface by Andrew Saint
Introduction by David Kroll 1
Historical overview by Peter Guillery 7
1. Urban design in Victorian London : the Minet estate in Lambeth, C. 1870 to 1910 by David Kroll 17
2. 'Miles of silly little dirty houses' : the lessons of Victorian Battersea by Colin Thom 37
3. Renewable principles in Henry Astley Darbishire's Peabody estates, 1864 to 1885 by Irina Davidovici 57
4. Residential flats : densification in Victorian and early twentieth-century London by Richard Dennis 75
5. South Acton unsustained by Peter Guillery 91
6. Gentrification : the case of Canonbury, 1850-1975 by Tanis Hinchcliffe 107
7. High-rise housing in London, c. 1940 to c. 1970 by Simon Pepper 123
8. 'We felt magnificent being up there' : Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower and the campaign to keep it public by David Roberts 141
9. Out-of-sync estates by Ben Campkin 163
10. Recent approaches to the sustainable retrofit of Victorian houses by Sofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll 177
11. Lessons of the past for my architectural practice by Simon Hudspith 193
References 201