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Fictions of the CityCouncil Housing in London

Fictions of the City: Council Housing in London [In many ways, this final case study tells a similar story to the previous one. In Britain as in France, the post-war housing crisis became so acute that the state was forced to intervene and eventually did so with system-built modernist apartment blocks. In both countries, the polar distinction between the state-housed underclass on the one hand and owner-occupiers or those in the private rental sector on the other has become perhaps the most socially divisive signifier of class in a time at which peace and prosperity — not to mention social democracy — might have been expected to overcome this execrable marginalisation of a whole sector of society. This much is true of both London and Paris. But the conditions under which this scenario unfolded in the two countries differ in fundamentals.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Fictions of the CityCouncil Housing in London

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Taunton, Matthew
Fictions of the City — Sep 12, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
ISBN
978-1-349-36826-6
Pages
139 –182
DOI
10.1057/9780230244917_5
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Abstract

[In many ways, this final case study tells a similar story to the previous one. In Britain as in France, the post-war housing crisis became so acute that the state was forced to intervene and eventually did so with system-built modernist apartment blocks. In both countries, the polar distinction between the state-housed underclass on the one hand and owner-occupiers or those in the private rental sector on the other has become perhaps the most socially divisive signifier of class in a time at which peace and prosperity — not to mention social democracy — might have been expected to overcome this execrable marginalisation of a whole sector of society. This much is true of both London and Paris. But the conditions under which this scenario unfolded in the two countries differ in fundamentals.]

Published: Sep 12, 2015

Keywords: Welfare State; Housing Policy; Mixed Community; Council Housing; Housing Crisis

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