Hovels to Highrise
Subtitle: State Housing in Europe Since 1850
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780203420782
Subjects: Europe; Social Science; Business; Public housing; Cross-cultural studies; Political Science; Housing authorities; Housing policy
Description: This takes the historical, political and social changes relating to housing in five European countries, and considers the housing history and traditions which have lead to growing tensions within their most disadvantaged communities.
Notes: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Definitions; Introduction; Background; Early housing developments; After the Second World War; Social landlords; Private housing; Difficult-to-manage estates; Current issues and conclusions; Background; The development of German housing from the Industrial Revolution to the Second World War; Post-war housing; Housing in the 1970s and 1980s; The Neue Heimat crisis; Changes in the 1980s; Housing change in East Germany; Summary of the current German housing pattern, and conclusions; Background.

Early housing developmentsAfter the First World War; After the Second World War; Council landlords; Decline in private renting; rise in owner-occupation; Legislative changes of the Thatcher years; A changing public role; Conclusions; Background; Development of social housing; After the Second World War; Private house-building; Social housing organisation and tenants' democracy; Conditions in the 1980s; The rescue of mass housing areas; Post-war housing achievements; Background; The start of Irish housing policy; Irish housing in limbo; between the wars; After the Second World War; The 1970s.

Developments in the 1980sThe impact of tenant purchase schemes on local authority estates; An overview and conclusions; Summary of five country studies; Main findings; General themes; Why state-sponsored housing will survive; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Definitions; Introduction; Background; Early housing developments; After the Second World War; Social landlords; Private housing; Difficult-to-manage estates; Current issues and conclusions; Background; The development of German housing from the Industrial Revolution to the Second World War; Post-war housing; Housing in the 1970s and 1980s; The Neue Heimat crisis; Changes in the 1980s; Housing change in East Germany; Summary of the current German housing pattern, and conclusions; Background