December | 2024 | Municipal Dreams
3 posts published by Municipal Dreams during December 2024| Municipal Dreams
3 posts published by Municipal Dreams during December 2024| Municipal Dreams
It’s claimed that Cologne built more social housing than any other German city in the 1920s. The city’s housing programme …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
We left Rochdale in last week’s post contemplating the failure of its Ashfield Valley Estate, completed in 1968 and all …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Although Rochdale had built on a large scale in the interwar period, as we saw in last week’s post, and …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Rochdale Town Hall, completed in 1871 and recently restored to its founding glory, is a municipal dream in itself – …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
I’m very pleased to feature this week a guest by Ray Rogers who ha contributed previously with a fine account …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Rob Clayton, Provision – Architecture of the Post-War Consensus (Stay Free Publishing, 2025) ‘Provision’ might seem, at first glance, a …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
In 1959, the South London Observer declared that ‘Camberwell must rank No. 1 in London housing progress at the moment’. …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
This blog began twelve years ago and it began as a result of a walk in Tower Hamlets where I …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Last week’s post looked at interwar Wigan, an era when the borough embarked on a programme of large-scale housing construction …Continue reading →| Municipal Dreams
Last week, we left Wigan, in the closing months of the First World War, anticipating peace and the desperately needed housebuilding programme pledged to follow. By November 1918, Prime Minister Llo…| Municipal Dreams
It’s claimed that Cologne built more social housing than any other German city in the 1920s. The city’s housing programme deserves study in own right therefore but it also provides a fascinating case study in the interwar evolution from an arts and crafts-inspired architecture to a more functionalist modernism. In Cologne, we see an explicit shift from the Gartenstadt to Neues Bauen – from the Garden City to a type of ‘New Building’ (sometimes termed New Objectivity) that emphasised...| Municipal Dreams
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2 posts published by Municipal Dreams during May 2024| Municipal Dreams
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
