Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing

by Mark Swenarton

The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. The schemes - which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane - set out a model of street-based housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day. Cook recruited some of the brightest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848222041
• ISBN13: 9781848222045
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.3" x 10.2"