[DOC] Stricken: Einfache Modelle ruckzuck gestrickt (German Edition) by Roswitha Sanchez Ortega; Monika Hoppe; Elke Houml;fig at Arts-Photography

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Faced with acute housing shortages; the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again; but what of the garden suburbs that already exist? Over the first six decades of the twentieth century; councils across Britain created a new and optimistic form of housing ndash; the cottage estates of lsquo;corporation suburbiarsquo;. By the early 1960s these estates provided homes with gardens for some 3 million mainly working-class households. It was a mammoth achievement. But; because of what then happened to council housing over the later years of the century; this is not very often appreciated.In Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow; Martin Crookston suggests that making the most of the assets which this housing offers is a positive story ndash; it can be positive for housing policy; for councils and their lsquo;place-makingrsquo; endeavours; and for the residents of the estates. This is especially important when all housing market and development options are so constrained; and likely to remain so for the next decade or more.Following an examination of what the estates of lsquo;corporation suburbiarsquo; are and what they are like; there follow chapters on specific examples from different parts of the country; on how they are affected by the workings of the housing market; and then ndash; not unconnectedly ndash; on how attitudes to this socially-built stock have evolved. Then the final chapters try to draw out the potentials; and to suggest what future we might look for in corporation suburbia in the twenty-first century.