Housing the Twentieth Century Nation

by Alan Powers

This book considers housing from across the century, from rural Norfolk to inner London, via Scotland and Wales. It looks at the work of local authorities on meager budgets, at the colorful world of housing charities in the 1920s and even at the problems of building high-density flats for the rich. Other articles appraise Britain's housing internationally. East Tilbury, built for a Czech industrialist on modernist lines, is studied in new depth. Cumbernauld...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955668700
• ISBN13: 9780955668708
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.7" x 10.4"