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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0da0c-b135-7124-8731-08b385de56f0", "title": "A Housing (and Civic) History of Huddersfield: Part III, 1951 to the Present: ‘foundered on the rocks of finance’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/a-housing-and-civic-history-of-huddersfield-part-iii-1951-to-the-present/", "published_at": "2026-09-22T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c6a1-dcd1-734a-8ad4-057822829931", "title": "A Housing (and Civic) History of Huddersfield: Part II, 1919-1951, ‘well-conceived, extensive and rapidly executed housing schemes’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/a-housing-and-civic-history-of-huddersfield-part-ii-1919-1951/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087aa-8448-7141-8f43-6fd88bc7b9dc", "title": "A Housing (and Civic) History of Huddersfield: Part I to 1918, ‘as advanced a town as any in the kingdom’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/huddersfield_part_one/", "published_at": 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"01a087aa-8448-7141-8f43-6fd88e2aa62a", "title": "The Kingswood Estate, West Dulwich II: ‘Something of a Paradox’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/the-kingswood-estate-west-dulwich-ii/", "published_at": "2026-03-17T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087aa-8448-7141-8f43-6fd88e7f4b0b", "title": "The Kingswood Estate, West Dulwich: ‘a New Dulwich ‘Village'”?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/the-kingswood-estate-west-dulwich-a-new-dulwich-village/", "published_at": "2026-03-10T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087aa-8448-7141-8f43-6fd88f07b0f0", "title": "Dutch Hofjes: ‘Small, surprising green oases’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/dutch-hofjes-small-surprising-green-oases/", "published_at": "2026-01-20T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087aa-8448-7141-8f43-6fd88f0ac7cb", "title": "Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: ‘Reluctant Modernist’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/sidney-colwyn-foulkes-reluctant-modernist/", "published_at": "2025-12-16T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087aa-8448-7141-8f43-6fd88f1750d8", "title": "Book Review: Ned Newitt, Housing the People of Leicester – a History of Social Housing", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/book-review-ned-newitt-housing-the-people-of-leicester-a-history-of-social-housing/", "published_at": "2025-12-02T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087aa-8448-7141-8f43-6fd88f4206f2", "title": "How Rotterdam Shaped Social Housing: Part II, Bergpolderflat and the Prototypical Slab Block", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/how-rotterdam-shaped-social-housing-part-ii-bergpolderflat-and-the-prototypical-slab-block/", "published_at": "2025-11-18T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb16617dc49", "title": "How Rotterdam Shaped Social Housing: Part I, the Justus van Effen Estate and ‘Streets in the Sky’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/how-rotterdam-shaped-social-housing-part-i-the-justus-van-effen-estate-and-streets-in-the-sky/", "published_at": "2025-11-11T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb167128f2b", "title": "Gidea Park: the Modern Homes Exhibition, 1934", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/gidea-park-the-modern-homes-exhibition-1934/", "published_at": "2025-10-07T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb1676b5919", "title": "Gidea Park: the House and Cottage Exhibition, 1911", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/gidea-park-the-1911-house-and-cottage-exhibition/", "published_at": "2025-09-30T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb167e65dfd", "title": "Building ‘Homes for Tomorrow’: Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/building-homes-for-tomorrow-lambeths-council-housing-of-1965-to-1980/", "published_at": "2025-09-09T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb167f94cb2", "title": "Social Housing in Cologne, 1913-1933: Light, Air and Trees … and Modernism", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/social-housing-in-cologne-1913-1933-light-air-and-trees-and-modernism/", "published_at": "2025-08-05T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb168ae45b3", "title": "A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part III, from 1967 to the Present", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/a-history-of-council-housing-in-rochdale-part-iii-from-1967-to-the-present/", "published_at": "2025-07-22T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb16950e065", "title": "A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part II, from 1945 to 1966", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/a-history-of-council-housing-in-rochdale-part-ii/", "published_at": "2025-07-15T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb16a1751a4", "title": "A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part I, from the Industrial Revolution to the Second World War", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/a-history-of-council-housing-in-rochdale-i/", "published_at": "2025-07-08T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb97-ed09-71e6-b5bd-1fb16aecc9cb", "title": "The Hillcrest Estate, Highgate: ‘of a kind which many well-to-do people would very gladly inhabit’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/the-hillcrest-estate-highgate-of-a-kind-which-many-well-to-do-people-would-very-gladly-inhabit/", "published_at": "2025-04-01T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f88377aa85e3", "title": "Book Review and Author Interview: Rob Clayton, Provision – Architecture of the Post-War Consensus", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/book-review-and-author-interview-rob-clayton-provision-architecture-of-the-post-war-consensus/", "published_at": "2025-03-25T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f8837807b2e5", "title": "Sceaux Gardens, Camberwell: ‘a Masterpiece of Good Planning’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/sceaux-gardens-camberwell-a-masterpiece-of-good-planning/", "published_at": "2025-03-04T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f88378dabf99", "title": "Poplar High Street: a Walk on the Municipal Side", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/14722/", "published_at": "2025-01-07T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f8837936ee00", "title": "Council Housing in Wigan: Part III, the Post-War Years", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/council-housing-in-wigan-part-iii-the-post-war-years/", "published_at": "2024-12-17T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f88379499052", "title": "Council Housing in Wigan: Part II, the Interwar Years and a Reckoning with George Orwell", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/council-housing-in-wigan-part-ii-the-interwar-years-and-a-reckoning-with-george-orwell/", "published_at": "2024-12-10T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f88379cec73a", "title": "Council Housing in Wigan: Part I to 1918", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/council-housing-in-wigan-part-i-to-1918/", "published_at": "2024-12-03T08:08:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f8837a443c2a", "title": "Grahame Park, Barnet, Part II: Back to the Future", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/grahame-park-barnet-part-ii/", "published_at": "2024-10-22T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f8837b121d04", "title": "Grahame Park, Barnet, Part I: ‘From Operational Aerodrome to Housing for the People’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/grahame-park-barnet-part-i/", "published_at": "2024-10-15T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f8837c0a6e8c", "title": "Kate Macintosh talks to Thaddeus Zupančič, Part Two", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/kate-macintosh-interview-part-two/", "published_at": "2024-10-01T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-025f-73ec-89fd-f8837c6d68fb", "title": "Kate Macintosh talks to Thaddeus Zupančič, Part One", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/kate-macintosh-interview-part-one/", "published_at": "2024-09-24T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab80443e97", "title": "Memory in Society: municipalism and social mobility illustrated and the future of curating family histories", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/memory-in-society-municipalism-and-social-mobility-illustrated-and-the-future-of-curating-family-histories/", "published_at": "2024-09-03T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab80a62225", "title": "Book Review: Justinien Tribillon, The Zone: an Alternative History of Paris", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/book-review-justinien-tribillon-the-zone-an-alternative-history-of-paris/", "published_at": "2024-08-06T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab8134b6cc", "title": "The Green Link Walk, Part III: From the South Bank to Peckham", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/the-green-link-walk-part-iii-south-of-the-river-from-the-south-bank-to-peckham/", "published_at": "2024-07-30T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab8157a87a", "title": "The Green Link Walk, Part II: Hackney to the Thames", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/07/26/the-green-link-walk-part-ii-hackney-to-the-thames/", "published_at": "2024-07-26T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab81580ace", "title": "The Green Link Walk, Part I: Walthamstow to Hackney", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/07/23/the-green-link-walk-part-i-walthamstow-to-hackney/", "published_at": "2024-07-23T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab8202e55c", "title": "Runcorn New Town, Part II: ‘a fresh look on life’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/runcorn-new-town-part-ii-a-fresh-look-on-life/", "published_at": "2024-07-09T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab82ffaee1", "title": "Runcorn New Town, Part I: a Child of the Sixties", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/runcorn-new-town-part-i-a-child-of-the-sixties/", "published_at": "2024-07-02T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab8368f5ee", "title": "Book Review: Michael Gilson, Behind the Privet Hedge", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/book-review-michael-gilson-behind-the-privet-hedge/", "published_at": "2024-06-18T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab84213a9a", "title": "Book Review: Paul Smith, Hartcliffe Betrayed", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/book-review-paul-smith-hartcliffe-betrayed/", "published_at": "2024-05-28T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba5-b814-7317-8538-25ab84284c19", "title": "The Creation of Crawley New Town", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/the-creation-of-crawley-new-town/", "published_at": "2024-05-07T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf21b8a57d", "title": "Kielder Village, Northumberland: Thomas Sharp and a ‘harbinger of a rural revolution’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/13959/", "published_at": "2024-04-02T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf22988fdd", "title": "Book Review – London Estates: Modernist Council Housing 1946-1981", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/london_estates_book_review/", "published_at": "2024-03-12T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf22aff20c", "title": "Council Housing in Gloucester: a Brief History", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/gloucester_council_housing_histo/", "published_at": "2024-03-05T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf23458fb9", "title": "Stonebridge Park, Brent: a Century of Change. Part III: The Situation by the late 1980s: A Housing Action Trust and Beyond", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/stonebridge-park-brent-a-century-of-change-part-iii/", "published_at": "2023-12-19T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf236e41e3", "title": "Stonebridge Park, Brent: a Century of Change. Part II: ‘Stonebridge will be ideal to live in’ – a New Utopia and the Lived Realities", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/12/stonebridge-park-a-century-of-change-part-ii/", "published_at": "2023-12-12T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf23934a80", "title": "Stonebridge Park, Brent: a Century of Change. Part I: Two World Wars, a Land Fit for Heroes and a Welfare State", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/stonebridge-park-brent-a-century-of-change-part-i/", "published_at": "2023-12-05T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf242a8fef", "title": "A Joyful Family Home?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/a-joyful-family-home/", "published_at": "2023-07-18T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf251b6a77", "title": "Municipal Housing in Zurich", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/07/04/municipal-housing-in-zurich/", "published_at": "2023-07-04T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf2556bea5", "title": "Chemin-Vert, Reims: Photo Supplement", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/chemin-vert-reims-photo-supplement/", "published_at": "2023-06-20T06:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaa-c4ac-7190-b8fe-61cf2597b6e3", "title": "Chemin-Vert, Reims: a French ‘Garden City’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/chemin-vert-reims-a-french-garden-city/", "published_at": "2023-06-20T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc588ac6b", "title": "A History of Council Housing in Stroud: Part II, 1936 to the Present", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/06/06/a-history-of-council-housing-in-stroud-part-ii-1936-to-the-present/", "published_at": "2023-06-06T06:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc63e221e", "title": "A History of Council Housing in Stroud: Part I to 1936", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/05/30/a-history-of-council-housing-in-stroud-part-i-to-1936/", "published_at": "2023-05-30T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc659251e", "title": "The Dollis Valley Estate, Barnet: Changing Visions of Social Housing", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/05/09/the-dollis-valley-estate-barnet/", "published_at": "2023-05-09T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc6ecd7e4", "title": "Book Review: Karen Averby, Town Halls", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/03/07/karen-averby-town-halls-book-review/", "published_at": "2023-03-07T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc78524c4", "title": "The Hidden History of Co-operative Housing Ventures", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/the-hidden-history-of-co-operative-housing-ventures/", "published_at": "2023-02-14T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc7aafa00", "title": "The Peculiarity of British Post-war Reconstruction? Part II", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/01/31/the-peculiarity-of-british-post-war-reconstruction-part-ii/", "published_at": "2023-01-31T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc842c736", "title": "The Peculiarity of British Post-war Reconstruction? Part I", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/post-war_reconstruction_part_1/", "published_at": "2023-01-24T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc89a79bb", "title": "Castle Hill, Eye: ‘Something Really Special’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/01/10/castle-hill-eye/", "published_at": "2023-01-10T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc8f3a1dd", "title": "Ten Years of Municipal Dreams", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2023/01/03/municipal-dreams-tenth-anniversary/", "published_at": "2023-01-03T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbaf-d704-7182-8d65-4d1cc97ecf0d", "title": "The Hartcliffe Estate, Bristol, 1944-1958: a Tale of Conflict and Betrayal", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/the-hartcliffe-estate-bristol-1944-1958/", "published_at": "2022-12-13T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f9600bb0f3", "title": "The New Architecture Movement Digital Archive", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/the-new-architecture-movement-digital-archive/", "published_at": "2022-11-22T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f960d90141", "title": "The Victoria Centre, Nottingham: ‘a city within a city’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/the-victoria-centre-nottingham/", "published_at": "2022-11-15T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f96128af0a", "title": "Sedbergh: ‘the luckiest town in the country with regard to housing’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/11/01/sedbergh/", "published_at": "2022-11-01T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f961c90d51", "title": "A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/09/30/a-history-of-council-housing-in-100-estates/", "published_at": "2022-09-30T10:31:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f962017288", "title": "Book Review: Chris Matthews with Clare Hartwell, Model Villages of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/09/07/model-villages-of-the-nottinghamshire-coalfield/", "published_at": "2022-09-07T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f9628dabf9", "title": "Open House London, 2022: Some Significant Housing Schemes", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/open-house-london-2022-some-significant-housing/", "published_at": "2022-08-30T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f962e08b84", "title": "Carpenders Park and South Oxhey: a Tale of Two Estates, Part 2", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/carpenders-park-and-south-oxhey-a-tale-of-two-estates-part-2/", "published_at": "2022-08-17T07:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f9635dfe6e", "title": "Carpenders Park and South Oxhey: a Tale of Two Estates, Part 1", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/08/09/carpenders-park-and-south-oxhey-a-tale-of-two-estates-part-1/", "published_at": "2022-08-09T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f9644e858e", "title": "Council Housing on the London Loop: Part II", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/council-housing-on-the-london-loop-part-ii/", "published_at": "2022-07-26T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb4-9a52-71ca-a3b8-e8f965256a21", "title": "Council Housing on the London Loop: Part I", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/council-housing-on-the-london-loop-part-i/", "published_at": "2022-07-19T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb4650031c", "title": "Bright, Breezy, Bracing Bridlington: Part 2", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/07/05/bright-breezy-bracing-bridlington-part-2/", "published_at": "2022-07-05T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb46e15f3a", "title": "Bright, Breezy, Bracing Bridlington: Part 1", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/bright-breezy-bracing-bridlington-part-1/", "published_at": "2022-06-28T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb474916eb", "title": "Workers’ Democracy in Building Greenwich Borough’s Homes Fit for Heroes, 1920–23", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/workers-democracy-in-building-greenwich-boroughs-homes-fit-for-heroes-1920-23/", "published_at": "2022-02-22T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb481137b7", "title": "Council Housing in Devon in the 1920s: a Local History Project", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/council_housing_devon_1920s/", "published_at": "2021-12-21T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb48799f64", "title": "London Housing by Peter Moro and Partners", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/peter-moro/", "published_at": "2021-09-21T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb490d8034", "title": "Council Housing in Llandudno, Part II Post-1945", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/09/07/council-housing-in-llandudno-part-ii/", "published_at": "2021-09-07T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb49fbe248", "title": "Council Housing in Llandudno: Part I, to 1939", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/council-housing-in-llandudno-part-i/", "published_at": "2021-08-31T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb4aeeb685", "title": "Book Review: Tjerk Ruimschotel, ‘Architectural Guide London’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/book-review-tjerk-ruimschotel-architectural-guide-london/", "published_at": "2021-05-25T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb4bebf1ea", "title": "High-Rise in Bristol, Part II from 1960", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/04/13/high-rise-in-bristol-part-ii/", "published_at": "2021-04-13T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-30cb-715e-9c25-cfeb4c025d6a", "title": "High-Rise in Bristol, Part I to 1960", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/high-rise-in-bristol-part-i/", "published_at": "2021-04-06T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df22f7ca648", "title": "London’s Modernist Maisonettes: ‘Going Upstairs to Bed’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/londons-modernist-maisonettes/", "published_at": "2021-03-23T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df22f9f688c", "title": "Book Review: ‘The Return of Squalor: an Anthology from the First Ten Years of Red Brick Blog’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/book-review-the-return-of-squalor/", "published_at": "2021-02-23T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df22fada020", "title": "Gleadless Valley Remembered", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/02/09/gleadless-valley-remembered/", "published_at": "2021-02-09T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df23080f830", "title": "Four Council Cottages at Mickleton: Rural Council Housing in Gloucestershire before the First World War", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/four-council-cottages-at-mickleton/", "published_at": "2021-01-26T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df230c1efb9", "title": "A Housing History of Barrow-in-Furness, part II from 1918: ‘Ours must be a slumless city’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/a-housing-history-of-barrow-in-furness-part-ii-from-1918/", "published_at": "2021-01-12T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df231409ce4", "title": "A Housing History of Barrow-in-Furness, part I to 1918: the ‘English Chicago’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2021/01/05/a-housing-history-of-barrow-in-furness-part-i-to-1918-the-english-chicago/", "published_at": "2021-01-05T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df231918c67", "title": "Book Review: Michael Romyn, London’s Aylesbury Estate – An Oral History of the ‘Concrete Jungle’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/book-review-michael-romyn-londons-aylesbury-estate/", "published_at": "2020-12-15T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df231f46dce", "title": "Great estates: the changing role of trees in the municipal housing landscape", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/great_estates_the_the_changing_role_of_trees/", "published_at": "2020-12-08T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df2327f3551", "title": "Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part II: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/edinburghs-1919-act-housing-part-ii-healthy-houses-for-the-people-is-the-best-public-health-insurance/", "published_at": "2020-12-01T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-8d5d-7268-91bc-6df23311e265", "title": "Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part I: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/edinburghs-1919-act-housing-part_1/", "published_at": "2020-11-24T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a2143343", "title": "Council Housing in Preston, Part II: ‘Changing Fashions in Planning’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/council-housing-in-preston-part-ii-changing-fashions-in-planning/", "published_at": "2020-11-10T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a21fe3ef", "title": "Preston’s Council Housing, Part I to 1939: ‘Compactness, Convenience and Taste’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/11/03/prestons-council-housing-part-i-to-1939-compactness-convenience-and-taste/", "published_at": "2020-11-03T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a2e0b9bd", "title": "Cottingham’s Council Housing, Part II from 1930: New Forms of Housing Provision", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/cottinghams-council-housing-part-ii-from-1930/", "published_at": "2020-10-20T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a3da5da5", "title": "Cottingham’s Council Housing, Part I to 1930: ‘Simple and Harmonious as a Whole’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/cottingham_part_i/", "published_at": "2020-10-13T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a48f3433", "title": "The Role of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee: ‘Homes Fit for Heroines’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/the_role_of_the_womens_housing_subcommittee/", "published_at": "2020-09-29T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a4e2f116", "title": "‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’: Women’s Influence on State Housing in the Era of World War 1 and After", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/till-we-have-built-jerusalem/", "published_at": "2020-09-22T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a4e68c43", "title": "Council Housing in Greenock, Part III after 1945: the ‘Hong Kong of the Clyde Coast’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/council-housing-in-greenock-part-iii-after-1945/", "published_at": "2020-09-08T06:30:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a5570289", "title": "Council Housing in Greenock, Part II, 1918-1945: their ‘Ain Wee House’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/09/01/council-housing-in-greenock-part-ii-1918-1945/", "published_at": "2020-09-01T06:30:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a57677a8", "title": "Council Housing in Greenock, Part I to 1918: the ‘Unhealthiest Town in Scotland’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/part_i_to_1918/", "published_at": "2020-08-25T06:30:16+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

A Housing (and Civic) History of Huddersfield: Part III, 1951 to the Present: ‘foundered on the rocks of finance’original ↗
22 Sept 2026
A Housing (and Civic) History of Huddersfield: Part II, 1919-1951, ‘well-conceived, extensive and rapidly executed housing schemes’original ↗
15 Sept 2026
A Housing (and Civic) History of Huddersfield: Part I to 1918, ‘as advanced a town as any in the kingdom’original ↗
8 Sept 2026
A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Countryoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Bedford, Part II from 1945: Postwar Planning and Innovative Developmentoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
Bedford, Part I to 1945: Controversy and Constructionoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
The Kingswood Estate, West Dulwich II: ‘Something of a Paradox’original ↗
17 Mar 2026
The Kingswood Estate, West Dulwich: ‘a New Dulwich ‘Village'”?original ↗
10 Mar 2026
Dutch Hofjes: ‘Small, surprising green oases’original ↗
20 Jan 2026

2025

Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: ‘Reluctant Modernist’original ↗
16 Dec 2025
Book Review: Ned Newitt, Housing the People of Leicester – a History of Social Housingoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
How Rotterdam Shaped Social Housing: Part II, Bergpolderflat and the Prototypical Slab Blockoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2025
How Rotterdam Shaped Social Housing: Part I, the Justus van Effen Estate and ‘Streets in the Sky’original ↗
11 Nov 2025
Gidea Park: the Modern Homes Exhibition, 1934original ↗
7 Oct 2025
Gidea Park: the House and Cottage Exhibition, 1911original ↗
30 Sept 2025
Building ‘Homes for Tomorrow’: Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980original ↗
9 Sept 2025
Social Housing in Cologne, 1913-1933: Light, Air and Trees … and Modernismoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2025
A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part III, from 1967 to the Presentoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2025
A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part II, from 1945 to 1966original ↗
15 Jul 2025
A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part I, from the Industrial Revolution to the Second World Waroriginal ↗
8 Jul 2025
The Hillcrest Estate, Highgate: ‘of a kind which many well-to-do people would very gladly inhabit’original ↗
1 Apr 2025
Book Review and Author Interview: Rob Clayton, Provision – Architecture of the Post-War Consensusoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2025
Sceaux Gardens, Camberwell: ‘a Masterpiece of Good Planning’original ↗
4 Mar 2025
Poplar High Street: a Walk on the Municipal Sideoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2025

2024

Council Housing in Wigan: Part III, the Post-War Yearsoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2024
Council Housing in Wigan: Part II, the Interwar Years and a Reckoning with George Orwelloriginal ↗
10 Dec 2024
Council Housing in Wigan: Part I to 1918original ↗
3 Dec 2024
Grahame Park, Barnet, Part II: Back to the Futureoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2024
Grahame Park, Barnet, Part I: ‘From Operational Aerodrome to Housing for the People’original ↗
15 Oct 2024
Kate Macintosh talks to Thaddeus Zupančič, Part Twooriginal ↗
1 Oct 2024
Kate Macintosh talks to Thaddeus Zupančič, Part Oneoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2024
Memory in Society: municipalism and social mobility illustrated and the future of curating family historiesoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2024
Book Review: Justinien Tribillon, The Zone: an Alternative History of Parisoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2024
The Green Link Walk, Part III: From the South Bank to Peckhamoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2024
The Green Link Walk, Part II: Hackney to the Thamesoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2024
The Green Link Walk, Part I: Walthamstow to Hackneyoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2024
Runcorn New Town, Part II: ‘a fresh look on life’original ↗
9 Jul 2024
Runcorn New Town, Part I: a Child of the Sixtiesoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2024
Book Review: Michael Gilson, Behind the Privet Hedgeoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2024
Book Review: Paul Smith, Hartcliffe Betrayedoriginal ↗
28 May 2024
The Creation of Crawley New Townoriginal ↗
7 May 2024
Kielder Village, Northumberland: Thomas Sharp and a ‘harbinger of a rural revolution’?original ↗
2 Apr 2024
Book Review – London Estates: Modernist Council Housing 1946-1981original ↗
12 Mar 2024
Council Housing in Gloucester: a Brief Historyoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2024

2023

Stonebridge Park, Brent: a Century of Change. Part III: The Situation by the late 1980s: A Housing Action Trust and Beyondoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2023
Stonebridge Park, Brent: a Century of Change. Part II: ‘Stonebridge will be ideal to live in’ – a New Utopia and the Lived Realitiesoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2023
Stonebridge Park, Brent: a Century of Change. Part I: Two World Wars, a Land Fit for Heroes and a Welfare Stateoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2023
A Joyful Family Home?original ↗
18 Jul 2023
Municipal Housing in Zurichoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2023
Chemin-Vert, Reims: Photo Supplementoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2023
Chemin-Vert, Reims: a French ‘Garden City’original ↗
20 Jun 2023
A History of Council Housing in Stroud: Part II, 1936 to the Presentoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2023
A History of Council Housing in Stroud: Part I to 1936original ↗
30 May 2023
The Dollis Valley Estate, Barnet: Changing Visions of Social Housingoriginal ↗
9 May 2023
Book Review: Karen Averby, Town Hallsoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2023
The Hidden History of Co-operative Housing Venturesoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2023
The Peculiarity of British Post-war Reconstruction? Part IIoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2023
The Peculiarity of British Post-war Reconstruction? Part Ioriginal ↗
24 Jan 2023
Castle Hill, Eye: ‘Something Really Special’original ↗
10 Jan 2023
Ten Years of Municipal Dreamsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2023

2022

The Hartcliffe Estate, Bristol, 1944-1958: a Tale of Conflict and Betrayaloriginal ↗
13 Dec 2022
The New Architecture Movement Digital Archiveoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2022
The Victoria Centre, Nottingham: ‘a city within a city’original ↗
15 Nov 2022
Sedbergh: ‘the luckiest town in the country with regard to housing’original ↗
1 Nov 2022
A History of Council Housing in 100 Estatesoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2022
Book Review: Chris Matthews with Clare Hartwell, Model Villages of the Nottinghamshire Coalfieldoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2022
Open House London, 2022: Some Significant Housing Schemesoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2022
Carpenders Park and South Oxhey: a Tale of Two Estates, Part 2original ↗
17 Aug 2022
Carpenders Park and South Oxhey: a Tale of Two Estates, Part 1original ↗
9 Aug 2022
Council Housing on the London Loop: Part IIoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2022
Council Housing on the London Loop: Part Ioriginal ↗
19 Jul 2022
Bright, Breezy, Bracing Bridlington: Part 2original ↗
5 Jul 2022
Bright, Breezy, Bracing Bridlington: Part 1original ↗
28 Jun 2022
Workers’ Democracy in Building Greenwich Borough’s Homes Fit for Heroes, 1920–23original ↗
22 Feb 2022

2021

Council Housing in Devon in the 1920s: a Local History Projectoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2021
London Housing by Peter Moro and Partnersoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2021
Council Housing in Llandudno, Part II Post-1945original ↗
7 Sept 2021
Council Housing in Llandudno: Part I, to 1939original ↗
31 Aug 2021
Book Review: Tjerk Ruimschotel, ‘Architectural Guide London’original ↗
25 May 2021
High-Rise in Bristol, Part II from 1960original ↗
13 Apr 2021
High-Rise in Bristol, Part I to 1960original ↗
6 Apr 2021
London’s Modernist Maisonettes: ‘Going Upstairs to Bed’original ↗
23 Mar 2021
Book Review: ‘The Return of Squalor: an Anthology from the First Ten Years of Red Brick Blog’original ↗
23 Feb 2021
Gleadless Valley Rememberedoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
Four Council Cottages at Mickleton: Rural Council Housing in Gloucestershire before the First World Waroriginal ↗
26 Jan 2021
A Housing History of Barrow-in-Furness, part II from 1918: ‘Ours must be a slumless city’original ↗
12 Jan 2021
A Housing History of Barrow-in-Furness, part I to 1918: the ‘English Chicago’original ↗
5 Jan 2021

2020

Book Review: Michael Romyn, London’s Aylesbury Estate – An Oral History of the ‘Concrete Jungle’original ↗
15 Dec 2020
Great estates: the changing role of trees in the municipal housing landscapeoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2020
Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part II: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’original ↗
1 Dec 2020
Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part I: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’original ↗
24 Nov 2020
Council Housing in Preston, Part II: ‘Changing Fashions in Planning’original ↗
10 Nov 2020
Preston’s Council Housing, Part I to 1939: ‘Compactness, Convenience and Taste’original ↗
3 Nov 2020
Cottingham’s Council Housing, Part II from 1930: New Forms of Housing Provisionoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2020
Cottingham’s Council Housing, Part I to 1930: ‘Simple and Harmonious as a Whole’original ↗
13 Oct 2020
The Role of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee: ‘Homes Fit for Heroines’original ↗
29 Sept 2020
‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’: Women’s Influence on State Housing in the Era of World War 1 and Afteroriginal ↗
22 Sept 2020
Council Housing in Greenock, Part III after 1945: the ‘Hong Kong of the Clyde Coast’original ↗
8 Sept 2020
Council Housing in Greenock, Part II, 1918-1945: their ‘Ain Wee House’original ↗
1 Sept 2020
Council Housing in Greenock, Part I to 1918: the ‘Unhealthiest Town in Scotland’original ↗
25 Aug 2020
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