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London's Aylesbury Estate : An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle', by Michael Romyn, (electronic resource)

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This book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based largely on the oral testimony and memoir of residents and former residents, youth and community workers, borough Councillors, officials, police officers and architects. What emerges is not a simple story of definitive failures, but one of texture and complexity, struggle and accord, family and friends, and of rapidly changing circumstances. The study spans the years 1967 to 2010 – from the estate’s ambitious inception until the first of its blocks were pulled down. It is a period rarely dealt with by historians of council housing, who have typically confined themselves to the years before or after the 1979 watershed. As such, it demonstrates how shifts in housing policy, and broader political, economic and social developments, came to bear on a working-class community – for good and, more especially, for ill.--
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
Extent
1 online resource
Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2.'The End of Slums' and the Rise of a 'Housing Disaster', 1945 – 1970
  • 3. Community, in all its Complexity, 1970 – 1979
  • 4. Plotting a Map to Marginality, 1979 – 1997
  • 5. New Deal? Aylesbury Regenerated, 1997 – 2010
  • 6. Conclusions
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9783030514778
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51477-8
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London's Aylesbury Estate : An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle'
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London's Aylesbury Estate
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An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle'
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by Michael Romyn
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Language
eng
Summary
This book looks beyond the Aylesbury’s public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based largely on the oral testimony and memoir of residents and former residents, youth and community workers, borough Councillors, officials, police officers and architects. What emerges is not a simple story of definitive failures, but one of texture and complexity, struggle and accord, family and friends, and of rapidly changing circumstances. The study spans the years 1967 to 2010 – from the estate’s ambitious inception until the first of its blocks were pulled down. It is a period rarely dealt with by historians of council housing, who have typically confined themselves to the years before or after the 1979 watershed. As such, it demonstrates how shifts in housing policy, and broader political, economic and social developments, came to bear on a working-class community – for good and, more especially, for ill.--
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Romyn, Michael
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non fiction
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dictionaries
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  • Palgrave Studies in Oral History
  • Springer eBooks.
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  • Oral history
  • Great Britain—History
  • Social history
  • Cities and towns—History
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London's Aylesbury Estate : An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle', by Michael Romyn, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51477-8
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Contents
1. Introduction -- 2.'The End of Slums' and the Rise of a 'Housing Disaster', 1945 – 1970 -- 3. Community, in all its Complexity, 1970 – 1979 -- 4. Plotting a Map to Marginality, 1979 – 1997 -- 5. New Deal? Aylesbury Regenerated, 1997 – 2010 -- 6. Conclusions
Control code
978-3-030-51477-8
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unknown
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
Extent
1 online resource
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multiple file formats
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  • online
  • electronic
Isbn
9783030514778
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uncompressed
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computer
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  • c
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absent
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access
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remote
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(OCoLC)1198559193
Label
London's Aylesbury Estate : An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle', by Michael Romyn, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51477-8
Publication
Antecedent source
mixed
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
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not applicable
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2.'The End of Slums' and the Rise of a 'Housing Disaster', 1945 – 1970 -- 3. Community, in all its Complexity, 1970 – 1979 -- 4. Plotting a Map to Marginality, 1979 – 1997 -- 5. New Deal? Aylesbury Regenerated, 1997 – 2010 -- 6. Conclusions
Control code
978-3-030-51477-8
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
Extent
1 online resource
File format
multiple file formats
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Isbn
9783030514778
Level of compression
uncompressed
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
absent
Reformatting quality
access
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1198559193

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