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Estates An Intimate History

Hanley Lynsey
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781783788651
Publisert
2023-09-07
Utgiver
Granta Books
Vekt
190 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Hanley Lynsey

Biografisk notat

LYNSEY HANLEY is the author of Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide, and Estates: An Intimate History. She was born in Birmingham and now lives in London. She regularly writes for the Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman and many others.

Estates An Intimate History

Hanley Lynsey
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
Hanley Lynsey
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
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A rich, thought-provoking book

Observer

Estates, a journey through the world of British social housing, is both a history and a personal reckoning

Financial Times

A wonderful book ... explains with verve and insight how one's mental landscape is moulded by physical environment ... Simple lessons for planners, architects and developers leap off the pages

Guardian

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Lynsey Hanley's vivid, powerful book is about a dream gone sour. Her descriptions of hopelessness, drunkenness and yobbery in Tower Hamlets cry out to be engraved by a new Hogarth

Independent

Hanley's Estates is many things - social history, memoir, mild polemic ... she catalogues her experience in a manner that is honest, informed and never whimsical. A well-timed and truthful book

Daily Telegraph

[A] celebrated slice of myth-busting

Metro

Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from Homes Fit for Heroes to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks, to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.
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A ground-breaking tour through Britain's ever-changing relationship with social housing: this seminal book reissued with a new preface by the author.

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A rich, thought-provoking book

Observer

Estates, a journey through the world of British social housing, is both a history and a personal reckoning

Financial Times

A wonderful book ... explains with verve and insight how one's mental landscape is moulded by physical environment ... Simple lessons for planners, architects and developers leap off the pages

Guardian

Se alle

Lynsey Hanley's vivid, powerful book is about a dream gone sour. Her descriptions of hopelessness, drunkenness and yobbery in Tower Hamlets cry out to be engraved by a new Hogarth

Independent

Hanley's Estates is many things - social history, memoir, mild polemic ... she catalogues her experience in a manner that is honest, informed and never whimsical. A well-timed and truthful book

Daily Telegraph

[A] celebrated slice of myth-busting

Metro

Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from Homes Fit for Heroes to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks, to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.
Les mer
A ground-breaking tour through Britain's ever-changing relationship with social housing: this seminal book reissued with a new preface by the author.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781783788651
Publisert
2023-09-07
Utgiver
Granta Books
Vekt
190 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Hanley Lynsey

Biografisk notat

LYNSEY HANLEY is the author of Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide, and Estates: An Intimate History. She was born in Birmingham and now lives in London. She regularly writes for the Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman and many others.

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