Workingclass Suburb - Social Change on an English Council Estate, 19302010

Informationen zum Autor Mark Clapson is Reader in History at the University of Westminster Klappentext An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing, housing policy, and key issues in urban studies. Zusammenfassung An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing! housing policy! and key issues in urban studies. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction and orientation2. The delayed birth of the Whitley Estate3. Building a community during the 1930s4. Whitley at War5. New beginnings: postwar expansion6. Social change, social problems and social action in postwar Whitley7. Leisure and the limits of social exclusion8. Whitley and the wider worldBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Clapson, Mark Clapson, Clapson Mark
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2012
• EAN: 9780719079511
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7951-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Berkshire, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Urban communities