2 posts published by Municipal Dreams during May 2024| Municipal Dreams
How a garden city became a housing estate, 1943-1963. A salutary lesson for current planners can be drawn from this detailed examination of the failure of an ambitious project in the immediate post-war environment to live up to its expectations. Houses were desperately needed: What principles should underpin a new ‘settlement’? Where should the houses […]| Bristol Radical History Group
As Labour looks to reinvigorate its New Towns and urban extensions agenda, author Paul Smith revisits the lessons which can be learned from the Hartcliffe urban extension in Bristol.| Red Brick
Paul Smith, Hartcliffe Betrayed: the Fading of a Post-War Dream (Bristol Radical History Group, 2024) I’ve complained in the past about the lack of historical coverage given to council housing – th…| Municipal Dreams