Housing the C20 Nation: No. 9 (Twentieth Century Architecture)

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 and Peterlee – pillories of postwar planning – are reappraised, and forgotten housing figures from mid-century Liverpool and the Midlands uncovered. New light is also shed on such famous estates as Alton and Byker, with articles by architects who designed them.

Edited by Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, with contributions from Barbara Linsley, Roland Jeffrey, Matthew Whitfield, Joanna Smith, Judith Alfrey, Elain Harwood, Peter Carolin, John Partridge, Chris Whittaker, Miles Glendinning, Michael Drage and Jonah Lowenfield.