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In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - hou...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres - involved not just construction but a new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was profound and far-r |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [324]-333) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415725408 0415725402 9780415725392 0415725399 1315766922 9781315766928 1317661893 9781317661894 |
| Index Number: | NA100 |
| CLC: | TU-095 |
| Call Number: | TU-095/A673-1 |
| Contents: | Part I. Cultures and continuities : From red superblock to green megastructure: municipal socialism as model and challenge / Eve Blau -- The welfare state in Flanders: de-pillarization and the nebulous city / Hilde Heymen and Janina Gosseye -- The beginnings of high-rise social housing in the long 1940s: the case of the LCC and the Woodberry Down Estate / Simon Pepper -- West Ham and the welfare state 1945-1970: a suitable case for treatment? / Nicholas Bullock -- Part II. Critiques and contradictions : Who needs 'needs'?: French post-war architecture and its critics / Łukasz Stanek -- The |