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Model Estate (Routledge Revivals): Planned Housing at Quarry Hill, Leeds - Tapa dura

Ravetz, Alison

 
9780415855921: Model Estate (Routledge Revivals): Planned Housing at Quarry Hill, Leeds
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ISBN 10: 0415855926 ISBN 13: 9780415855921
Editorial: Routledge, 2013

Sinopsis

Quarry Hill Flats, once both the pride and shame of its city of Leeds, was an iconic Modernist symbol of the 1930s. It marked the first use of a prefabricated building system for a large-scale council estate, replacing a notorious slum. But it lasted barely a generation – its complete demolition was announced as Alison Ravetz was finishing this study. First published in 1974, this book is unique in its use of all estate records from conception to destruction, as well as in its comprehensive approach, including aspects usually missing in council housing studies – notably the intimate experience of residents, and a fraught, long-drawn-out building period. Ravetz argues that the Flats’ ‘failure’ was due not to social breakdown, as repeatedly alleged, but rather to a rigidity of design and management unable to accommodate gradual, incremental change. This has continuing implications for the operation of bureaucratically designed and controlled ‘social housing’ today.

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Alison Ravetz

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2013
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415855926
ISBN 13 
9780415855921
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Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
266
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