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_d57962
020 _a9781859466315
082 _a363.509421
_bGUI
100 _aGuillery, Peter Ed.
_988061
245 _aMobilising housing histories : learning from londons past for a sustainable future
260 _bRIBA Publishing
_aLondon
_c2017
300 _axx,234p.
505 _aContents 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
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700 _aKroll, David Ed.
_988062
890 _aUK
891 _aFA
942 _2ddc
650 _aWeights and measures
_aEngland--London
_aHousing