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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0bbc3-1505-70fa-87ca-d237a5cd6b47", "title": "Council Housing in Oxford, Part II after 1945: ‘a Sense of Space and Freshness’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/council-housing-in-oxford-part-ii/", "published_at": "2020-08-04T06:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a985ca640", "title": "Council Housing in Oxford, Part I: ‘‘We don’t despise these people but …”", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/council-housing_in-oxford_part_i/", "published_at": "2020-07-29T08:01:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a98d953cf", "title": "Rêves Municipales: the Paris region’s tribute to the Garden Cities movement", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/reves-municipales-the-paris-regions-tribute-to-the-garden-cities-movement/", "published_at": "2020-07-14T06:30:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a99401dfa", "title": "Speke, Liverpool, Part II: Reflections on Time Spent", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/speke_liverpool_part_ii/", "published_at": "2020-06-30T06:30:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a99bed152", "title": "Kirkby, Liverpool, Part II: ‘New Jerusalem Goes Wrong’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/kirkby-liverpool-part-ii/", "published_at": "2020-06-09T06:30:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a9a1134e8", "title": "Kirkby, Liverpool, Part I: ‘a tremendous achievement’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/kirkby-liverpool-part-i/", "published_at": "2020-06-02T06:30:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a9a28dacb", "title": "Gleadless Valley Estate, Sheffield: ‘Symbol of an emerging city’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/the-gleadless-valley-estate/", "published_at": "2020-05-19T06:30:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a9a9daed3", "title": "The Campsbourne Cottage Estate, Hornsey: ‘a colony of self-contained workmen’s dwellings unsurpassed in the country’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/the-campsbourne-cottage-estate-hornsey/", "published_at": "2020-05-12T06:30:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a9b06c9be", "title": "Council Housing in Portsmouth, Part II from 1945: Suburbs and High-Rise", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/council-housing-in-portsmouth-part-ii-from-1945/", "published_at": "2020-04-28T06:30:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a9bef0ada", "title": "Council Housing in Portsmouth, Part I to 1945: ‘Providing for the health and betterment of the people’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/council-housing-in-portsmouth-part-i/", "published_at": "2020-04-21T06:30:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbca-1541-72bc-82b7-f76a9bfc2130", "title": "Alt-Erlaa, Vienna: ‘the World’s Best Council Housing?’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/alt-erlaa-vienna-the-worlds-best-council-housing/", "published_at": "2020-04-07T06:30:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-52643e4edba0", "title": "Red Vienna, Part II: ‘Die Ringstrasse des Proletariats’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/red-vienna-part-ii/", "published_at": "2020-03-31T05:30:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-52643f040bb1", "title": "Red Vienna, Part I: ‘Useful instalments of socialist work’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/red_vienna_part-i/", "published_at": "2020-03-24T07:30:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-52643f27d996", "title": "Book Review: Jon Lawrence, Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/book-review-jon-lawrence-me-me-me-the-search-for-community-in-post-war-england/", "published_at": "2020-02-25T07:30:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-52643f2bb4e0", "title": "Council Housing in Holborn, Part III: ‘infill sites that fitted the street scene and suited the tenants’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/02/11/council-housing-in-holborn-part-iii/", "published_at": "2020-02-11T07:30:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-52643f6902dd", "title": "Council Housing in Holborn, Part II: ‘Diminishing the Tenement Atmosphere’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/council-housing-in-holborn-part-ii/", "published_at": "2020-02-04T07:30:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-52643fa4f294", "title": "Council Housing in Holborn, Part I: Early Council Housing to 1945", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/council-housing-in-holborn-part-i/", "published_at": "2020-01-28T07:30:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-526440108e7f", "title": "Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part II: the Post-War Housing Drive", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/council-housing-in-shrewsbury-part-ii/", "published_at": "2020-01-14T07:30:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-52644052cf11", "title": "Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part I: ‘Shrewsbury’s first garden suburb’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/council-housing-in-shrewsbury-part-i/", "published_at": "2020-01-07T07:30:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-5264410b8b27", "title": "Tayler and Green and Loddon Rural District Council, Part II: ‘a triumph of artistic patronage’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/12/17/tayler_and_green_and_loddon_rural_district_council_part_ii/", "published_at": "2019-12-17T07:30:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcf-2d2c-70d2-a728-526441513384", "title": "Tayler and Green and Loddon Rural District Council, Part I: ‘a set of council houses unequalled in the whole country’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/tayler-and-green-and-loddon-rural-district-council-part-i/", "published_at": "2019-12-10T07:30:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a05504f888d", "title": "ECP Monson: A Thoughtful and Proudly Municipal Architect", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/ecp-monson-a-thoughtful-and-proudly-municipal-architect/", "published_at": "2019-11-26T07:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a05506b55ba", "title": "Book Review: Seán Damer, Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919–1956", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/book-review-sean-damer-scheming-a-social-history-of-glasgow-council-housing-1919-1956/", "published_at": "2019-11-12T07:30:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a05511592a1", "title": "Mapping Pre-First World War Council Housing", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/mapping-pre-first-world-war-council-housing/", "published_at": "2019-10-22T06:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a05513b0ade", "title": "Open House London 2019: Town Halls – Civic Pride and Service", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/09/19/open-house-london-2019-town-halls-civic-pride-and-service/", "published_at": "2019-09-19T06:30:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a055210b968", "title": "Open House London, 2019: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/open-house-london-2019-a-tour-of-the-capitals-council-housing/", "published_at": "2019-09-17T06:30:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a0552b89a5c", "title": "Council Housing in Gateshead, part II post-1945: ‘The world has moved on’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/council-housing-in-gateshead-part-ii-post-1945/", "published_at": "2019-09-10T06:30:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a0552c908be", "title": "Council Housing in Gateshead, part I to 1939: ‘The liberty of the subject’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/council-housing-in-gateshead-part-i-to-1939/", "published_at": "2019-09-03T06:30:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a05534b49fa", "title": "Council Housing in Winchester – Part II post-1945: ‘Visually pleasing and economic in development’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/council-housing-in-winchester-part-ii-post-1945/", "published_at": "2019-08-13T06:30:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a05540e8582", "title": "Council Housing in Winchester – Part I to 1939: ‘these houses will be the most sought after in Winchester’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/council_housing_in_winchester_-part_i/", "published_at": "2019-08-06T06:30:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd3-0acb-7279-a883-4a055445260d", "title": "Book Review – ‘Homes and Places: A History of Nottingham’s Council Houses’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/book-review-homes-and-places-a-history-of-nottinghams-council-houses-2/", "published_at": "2019-07-23T06:30:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c71365b238ee", "title": "Addison Streets – a celebration of the 1919 Housing Act", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/07/16/addison-streets-a-celebration-of-the-1919-housing-act/", "published_at": "2019-07-16T06:30:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c7136650ef2e", "title": "The People’s Park, Banbury, Part II: ‘The Brightest Spot Throughout the Whole History of the Borough’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/07/09/the-peoples-park-banbury-part-ii-the-brightest-spot-throughout-the-whole-history-of-the-borough/", "published_at": "2019-07-09T06:30:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c713669deba0", "title": "The People’s Park, Banbury, Part I: ‘The Brightest Spot Throughout the Whole History of the Borough’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/07/02/the-peoples-park-banbury-part-i-the-brightest-spot-throughout-the-whole-history-of-the-borough/", "published_at": "2019-07-02T06:30:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c713672ceb59", "title": "The Dursley Housing Scheme, 1912, Part II: ‘No Better Housing Scheme’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/06/25/the-dursley-housing-scheme-1912-part-ii/", "published_at": "2019-06-25T06:30:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c713681fed96", "title": "The Dursley Housing Scheme, 1912, Part I: Housing Reform before the First World War", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/06/18/the-dursley-housing-scheme-1912-part-i-housing-reform-before-1ww/", "published_at": "2019-06-18T06:30:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c71368979479", "title": "The Woodchurch Estate, Birkenhead II: ‘Not a mere assemblage of houses’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/the-woodchurch-estate-birkenhead-ii-not-a-mere-assemblage-of-houses/", "published_at": "2019-04-30T06:30:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c713697d1926", "title": "The Woodchurch Estate, Birkenhead I: ‘Repercussions over the Empire’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/the-woodchurch-estate-birkenhead-repercussions-over-the-empire/", "published_at": "2019-04-23T06:30:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c713699a11a3", "title": "Book Review: Stewart and Lynch, Environmental Health and Housing: Issues for Public Health", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/04/02/book-review-stewart-and-lynch-environmental-health-and-housing-issues-for-public-health/", "published_at": "2019-04-02T06:30:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c71369c4906f", "title": "Book Review: ‘The Town of Tomorrow: 50 Years of Thamesmead’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/9488/", "published_at": "2019-03-05T07:30:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd6-e14e-727b-9369-c7136a9a5b83", "title": "‘Health is greater than history’: an introduction to Edinburgh’s social housing, 1890-1945", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/edinburgh_social_housing_1890-1945/", "published_at": "2019-02-19T07:30:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a825c2707", "title": "Pioneer Cottages, Penshurst: ‘three pairs of pretty dwellings’ UPDATE", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/pioneer-cottages-penshurst_update/", "published_at": "2019-02-12T07:30:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a834db834", "title": "Book Review: Catherine Flinn, Rebuilding Britain’s Blitzed Cities. Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realities", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/book-review-catherine-flinn-rebuilding-britains-blitzed-cities-hopeful-dreams-stark-realities/", "published_at": "2019-02-05T07:30:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a835fbcd5", "title": "Grenfell and the Need for a Tenants’ Voice", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/01/29/grenfell-and-the-need-for-a-tenants-voice/", "published_at": "2019-01-29T07:30:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a8447c1d0", "title": "Stow Road, Ixworth: ‘Thingoe’s Follies’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/01/22/stow-road-ixworth-thingoes-follies-update/", "published_at": "2019-01-22T07:30:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a8530e60e", "title": "Nissen-Petren Houses: ‘Not obnoxious and the people would be delighted to pay an economic rent’ UPDATE", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/nissen-petren-houses-not-obnoxious-and-the-people-would-be-delighted-to-pay-an-economic-rent-update/", "published_at": "2019-01-16T07:30:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a862366a5", "title": "The Newlyn Clearances, part II: ‘the modest homes that make a nation’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/the-_newlyn_clearances_ii/", "published_at": "2019-01-08T07:30:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a864522c6", "title": "The Newlyn Clearances, part I: the Gwavas Estate – ‘among the monstrosities being condemned by architectural experts’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/newlyn_clearances_i/", "published_at": "2019-01-01T08:15:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a8713e4a2", "title": "‘The London Borough of Thetford’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/thetford_expanded_town_ii/", "published_at": "2018-12-11T07:30:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8836-72dc-8585-f32a871ef5c1", "title": "Thetford: ‘A Town Which Has Picked Expansion’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/thetford_expanded_town_i/", "published_at": "2018-12-05T07:30:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbda-8837-7209-b309-faef4a63007e", "title": "Council Housing in Thetford before 1939: No ‘borough as small had done more’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/council_housing_thetford_before_1939/", "published_at": "2018-10-09T06:30:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae584c0d72e", "title": "Open House London, 2018: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/open-house-london-2018-a-tour-of-the-capitals-council-housing/", "published_at": "2018-09-18T06:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae584ea7b57", "title": "Open House London 2018: Town Halls – Civic Pride and Service", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/09/11/open-house-london-2018-town-halls-civic-pride-and-service/", "published_at": "2018-09-11T06:30:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae585532f33", "title": "The Jubilee Pool, Penzance: ‘Municipal modernity and faith in a brighter, more enlightened future’ UPDATE", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/the-jubilee-pool-penzance-municipal-modernity-and-faith-in-a-brighter-more-enlightened-future-update/", "published_at": "2018-09-04T06:30:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae58613ab8b", "title": "Elisabeth Blanchet and Sonia Zhuravlyova, ‘Prefabs’ Book Review", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/08/14/prefabs_book_review/", "published_at": "2018-08-14T06:30:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae58707f8b1", "title": "Orchard Park, Hull, Part II: ‘It’s never had it better than now’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/orchard-park-hull-part-ii/", "published_at": "2018-07-31T06:30:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae587644232", "title": "Orchard Park, Hull, Part I: ‘One of the poorest peripheral estates in Britain’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/orchard_park_part_1/", "published_at": "2018-07-24T06:30:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae58830d306", "title": "Let our Municipal Dreams flourish once more", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/07/03/let-our-municipal-dreams-flourish-once-more/", "published_at": "2018-07-03T06:36:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae589206384", "title": "Nottingham’s Council Housing by Bus and Tram", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/8951/", "published_at": "2018-06-19T06:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae58939bab6", "title": "Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/municipal-dreams-the-rise-and-fall-of-council-housing/", "published_at": "2018-05-29T06:30:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbde-2f7b-714f-9c0b-9ae58963a601", "title": "Panelák Prague: Communist Social Housing in the Former Czechoslovakia, Part Two Housing the City", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/panelak-prague-communist-social-housing-in-the-former-czechoslovakia-part-2-housing-the-city/", "published_at": "2018-05-15T06:30:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b41fe2e5731", "title": "Panelák Prague: Communist Social Housing in the Former Czechoslovakia, Part One Design and Development", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/panelak-prague-communist-social-housing-in-the-former-czechoslovakia-part-one-design-and-development/", "published_at": "2018-05-08T06:30:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b41fe2f94a7", "title": "Nissen-Petren Houses: ‘Not obnoxious and the people would be delighted to pay an economic rent’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/nissen-petren-houses-not-obnoxious-and-the-people-would-be-delighted-to-pay-an-economic-rent/", "published_at": "2018-04-24T06:30:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b41ff1bf745", "title": "The Edward Woods Estate, Hammersmith, II: ‘High Rise Hope’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/the-edward-woods-estate-part-ii/", "published_at": "2018-04-10T06:30:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b41ff2774c0", "title": "The Edward Woods Estate, Hammersmith, I: ‘the problem areas of today’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/the-edward-woods-estate-part-i/", "published_at": "2018-04-03T06:30:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b41ff63e4fe", "title": "Glyn Robbins, ‘There’s No Place: the American Housing Crisis and What It Means for the UK’ Book Review", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/glyn-robbins-theres-no-place-the-american-housing-crisis-and-what-it-means-for-the-uk-book-review/", "published_at": "2018-03-20T07:30:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b41ff87d427", "title": "Municipal Greenwich, Part II", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/municipal-greenwich-part-ii/", "published_at": "2018-03-06T07:30:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b41ffe4f99a", "title": "Municipal Greenwich and a bit of the Isle of Dogs, Part I", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/02/27/municipal-greenwich-and-a-bit-of-the-isle-of-dogs-part-i/", "published_at": "2018-02-27T07:30:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b42008d7e2b", "title": "Aylesham and the Planning of the East Kent Coalfield, Part II", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/aylesham-and-the-planning-of-the-east-kent-coalfield-part-ii/", "published_at": "2018-02-13T07:30:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b4200b37c07", "title": "Aylesham and the Planning of the East Kent Coalfield, Part I", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/aylesham-and-the-planning-of-the-east-kent-coalfield-part-i/", "published_at": "2018-02-06T07:30:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe1-9085-7323-b844-3b4200ddcbf1", "title": "Duncan Bowie, ‘The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning’ Book Review: ‘the State, the Municipality … doing what men cannot do, or do so well’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/01/23/duncan-bowie-the-radical-and-socialist-tradition-in-british-planning/", "published_at": "2018-01-23T07:30:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec45f7e505", "title": "Council Housing in Walsall, Part IV: from 1979 to the present", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/walsall_council_housing_part_iv/", "published_at": "2018-01-16T07:30:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec46d1f583", "title": "Council Housing in Walsall, Part III: Postwar Estates and High-Rise", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/walsall_council_housing_part_iii/", "published_at": "2018-01-09T07:30:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec47b92db7", "title": "Mark Swenarton, ‘Cook’s Camden’ Book Review: ‘to take forward the project of the welfare state – but to do it better’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/cooks_camden/", "published_at": "2017-12-19T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec483429ef", "title": "Council Housing in Walsall, Part II: The Interwar Period", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/walsall_council_housing_part_ii/", "published_at": "2017-12-12T07:30:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec48b68727", "title": "Council Housing in Walsall, Part I: Before 1914 and the Impact of War", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/walsall_council_housing_part_i/", "published_at": "2017-12-05T07:30:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec496bd6f9", "title": "Book Review: HKPA and Frederick Gibberd, ‘Building a Better World for All’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/hkpa-and-frederick-gibberd-book-review-building-a-better-world-for-all/", "published_at": "2017-11-28T07:30:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec4992bc1e", "title": "The Broadwater Estate, Tottenham, Part II: ‘a strong vibrant community’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/the-broadwater-estate-tottenham-part-ii/", "published_at": "2017-11-14T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec4a1dca1d", "title": "The Broadwater Farm Estate, Tottenham, Part I: from ‘holiday camp’ to ‘dumping ground’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/broadwater_farm_part_i/", "published_at": "2017-11-07T07:30:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec4a561ee4", "title": "Council Housing and Community in Beverley: ‘from bad to worse’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/council-housing-and-community-in-beverley/", "published_at": "2017-10-24T06:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe4-ca5b-7358-8c6c-d1ec4afc642f", "title": "Council Housing in Beverley: ‘Top notch in them days’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/council_housing_in_beverley_part-1/", "published_at": "2017-10-17T06:30:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0aff633a", "title": "Council Estate Pubs: ‘Never drink in a pub with a flat roof’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/council-estate-pubs-never-drink-in-a-pub-with-a-flat-roof/", "published_at": "2017-10-03T06:30:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0b6ab48d", "title": "North Oxfordshire: The ‘foxhunters, farmers and parsons’ and their first council houses, Part II", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/north-oxfordshire-the-foxhunters-farmers-and-parsons-and-their-first-council-houses-part-ii/", "published_at": "2017-09-26T06:30:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0bebb647", "title": "North Oxfordshire: The ‘foxhunters, farmers and parsons’ and their first council houses, Part I", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/09/19/north-oxfordshire-the-foxhunters-farmers-and-parsons-and-their-fist-council-houses-part-i/", "published_at": "2017-09-19T06:30:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0ce51391", "title": "Open House London 2017: Town Halls – Civic Pride and Service", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/open-house-london-2017-town-halls-civic-pride-and-service/", "published_at": "2017-09-12T06:30:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0d8e451d", "title": "Open House London, 2017: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/09/11/open-house-london-2017-a-tour-of-the-capitals-council-housing/", "published_at": "2017-09-11T06:30:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0e5a6f34", "title": "Municipal Dreams Goes to Hull, Part II: Civic grandeur, service and convenience", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/municipal_dreams_goes_to_hull_part_ii/", "published_at": "2017-08-29T06:30:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0ee28966", "title": "Municipal Dreams in Hull, Part I: The best laid plans…", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/municipal_dreams_in_hull_part_i/", "published_at": "2017-08-22T06:30:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0f60d0f1", "title": "Growing up on the Speke Estate, Liverpool: a personal perspective", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/speke_a_personal_perspective/", "published_at": "2017-08-01T06:30:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce0fa1107b", "title": "A Long History of Grenfell Tower and the Lancaster West Estate", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/a-long-history-of-grenfell-tower-and-the-lancaster-west-estate/", "published_at": "2017-07-27T08:45:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe8-0a91-72da-b18d-d6ce101f3fe7", "title": "Ian Waites, ‘Middlefield: A postwar council estate in time’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/middlefield_a_postwar_council_estate_in_time/", "published_at": "2017-07-18T06:30:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a92132e95", "title": "Tackling the Slums: Addison and the Sanitary Inspectors: Part 2, 1914-1939", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/tackling-the-slums-addison-and-the-sanitary-inspectors-part-2-1914-1939/", "published_at": "2017-07-03T06:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a92f24617", "title": "Tackling the Slums: Inspectors of Nuisance and the Sanitary Inspectors: Part 1, 1848-1914", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/tackling-the-slums-part-1/", "published_at": "2017-06-27T06:30:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a935940eb", "title": "Grenfell Tower", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/grenfell-tower/", "published_at": "2017-06-17T11:23:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a938f22fd", "title": "The Blackbird Leys Estate, Oxford: ‘Never accepted as part of the city proper’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/06/13/oxford_blackbird_leys/", "published_at": "2017-06-13T06:30:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a93b4c434", "title": "A Radical Riverscape: Architecture and Revolution down the Fleet", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/a-radical-riverscape-architecture-and-revolution-down-the-fleet/", "published_at": "2017-05-30T08:41:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a94737fd9", "title": "Harlow: ‘Sculpture Town’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/harlow-sculpture-town/", "published_at": "2017-05-23T06:30:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a94a7483a", "title": "Harlow New Town: ‘Home to the finest works of art’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/harlow-new-town/", "published_at": "2017-05-16T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a95406a0b", "title": "The Speke Estate, Liverpool II: ‘Speke is not Sarajevo; Speke is quite a nice estate’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/the-speke-estate-liverpool-ii/", "published_at": "2017-05-02T06:30:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a95984fdb", "title": "The Speke Estate, Liverpool: a ‘satellite town…planned to accommodate all classes of the community’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/the-speke-estate-liverpool-i/", "published_at": "2017-04-25T06:30:10+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2020

Council Housing in Oxford, Part II after 1945: ‘a Sense of Space and Freshness’original ↗
4 Aug 2020
Council Housing in Oxford, Part I: ‘‘We don’t despise these people but …”original ↗
29 Jul 2020
Rêves Municipales: the Paris region’s tribute to the Garden Cities movementoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2020
Speke, Liverpool, Part II: Reflections on Time Spentoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2020
Kirkby, Liverpool, Part II: ‘New Jerusalem Goes Wrong’original ↗
9 Jun 2020
Kirkby, Liverpool, Part I: ‘a tremendous achievement’?original ↗
2 Jun 2020
Gleadless Valley Estate, Sheffield: ‘Symbol of an emerging city’original ↗
19 May 2020
The Campsbourne Cottage Estate, Hornsey: ‘a colony of self-contained workmen’s dwellings unsurpassed in the country’original ↗
12 May 2020
Council Housing in Portsmouth, Part II from 1945: Suburbs and High-Riseoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2020
Council Housing in Portsmouth, Part I to 1945: ‘Providing for the health and betterment of the people’original ↗
21 Apr 2020
Alt-Erlaa, Vienna: ‘the World’s Best Council Housing?’original ↗
7 Apr 2020
Red Vienna, Part II: ‘Die Ringstrasse des Proletariats’original ↗
31 Mar 2020
Red Vienna, Part I: ‘Useful instalments of socialist work’original ↗
24 Mar 2020
Book Review: Jon Lawrence, Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war Englandoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2020
Council Housing in Holborn, Part III: ‘infill sites that fitted the street scene and suited the tenants’original ↗
11 Feb 2020
Council Housing in Holborn, Part II: ‘Diminishing the Tenement Atmosphere’original ↗
4 Feb 2020
Council Housing in Holborn, Part I: Early Council Housing to 1945original ↗
28 Jan 2020
Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part II: the Post-War Housing Driveoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2020
Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part I: ‘Shrewsbury’s first garden suburb’original ↗
7 Jan 2020

2019

Tayler and Green and Loddon Rural District Council, Part II: ‘a triumph of artistic patronage’original ↗
17 Dec 2019
Tayler and Green and Loddon Rural District Council, Part I: ‘a set of council houses unequalled in the whole country’original ↗
10 Dec 2019
ECP Monson: A Thoughtful and Proudly Municipal Architectoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2019
Book Review: Seán Damer, Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919–1956original ↗
12 Nov 2019
Mapping Pre-First World War Council Housingoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2019
Open House London 2019: Town Halls – Civic Pride and Serviceoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2019
Open House London, 2019: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housingoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2019
Council Housing in Gateshead, part II post-1945: ‘The world has moved on’original ↗
10 Sept 2019
Council Housing in Gateshead, part I to 1939: ‘The liberty of the subject’original ↗
3 Sept 2019
Council Housing in Winchester – Part II post-1945: ‘Visually pleasing and economic in development’original ↗
13 Aug 2019
Council Housing in Winchester – Part I to 1939: ‘these houses will be the most sought after in Winchester’original ↗
6 Aug 2019
Book Review – ‘Homes and Places: A History of Nottingham’s Council Houses’original ↗
23 Jul 2019
Addison Streets – a celebration of the 1919 Housing Actoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2019
The People’s Park, Banbury, Part II: ‘The Brightest Spot Throughout the Whole History of the Borough’original ↗
9 Jul 2019
The People’s Park, Banbury, Part I: ‘The Brightest Spot Throughout the Whole History of the Borough’original ↗
2 Jul 2019
The Dursley Housing Scheme, 1912, Part II: ‘No Better Housing Scheme’original ↗
25 Jun 2019
The Dursley Housing Scheme, 1912, Part I: Housing Reform before the First World Waroriginal ↗
18 Jun 2019
The Woodchurch Estate, Birkenhead II: ‘Not a mere assemblage of houses’original ↗
30 Apr 2019
The Woodchurch Estate, Birkenhead I: ‘Repercussions over the Empire’original ↗
23 Apr 2019
Book Review: Stewart and Lynch, Environmental Health and Housing: Issues for Public Healthoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2019
Book Review: ‘The Town of Tomorrow: 50 Years of Thamesmead’original ↗
5 Mar 2019
‘Health is greater than history’: an introduction to Edinburgh’s social housing, 1890-1945original ↗
19 Feb 2019
Pioneer Cottages, Penshurst: ‘three pairs of pretty dwellings’ UPDATEoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2019
Book Review: Catherine Flinn, Rebuilding Britain’s Blitzed Cities. Hopeful Dreams, Stark Realitiesoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2019
Grenfell and the Need for a Tenants’ Voiceoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2019
Stow Road, Ixworth: ‘Thingoe’s Follies’original ↗
22 Jan 2019
Nissen-Petren Houses: ‘Not obnoxious and the people would be delighted to pay an economic rent’ UPDATEoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2019
The Newlyn Clearances, part II: ‘the modest homes that make a nation’original ↗
8 Jan 2019
The Newlyn Clearances, part I: the Gwavas Estate – ‘among the monstrosities being condemned by architectural experts’original ↗
1 Jan 2019

2018

‘The London Borough of Thetford’?original ↗
11 Dec 2018
Thetford: ‘A Town Which Has Picked Expansion’original ↗
5 Dec 2018
Council Housing in Thetford before 1939: No ‘borough as small had done more’original ↗
9 Oct 2018
Open House London, 2018: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housingoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2018
Open House London 2018: Town Halls – Civic Pride and Serviceoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2018
The Jubilee Pool, Penzance: ‘Municipal modernity and faith in a brighter, more enlightened future’ UPDATEoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2018
Elisabeth Blanchet and Sonia Zhuravlyova, ‘Prefabs’ Book Revieworiginal ↗
14 Aug 2018
Orchard Park, Hull, Part II: ‘It’s never had it better than now’original ↗
31 Jul 2018
Orchard Park, Hull, Part I: ‘One of the poorest peripheral estates in Britain’original ↗
24 Jul 2018
Let our Municipal Dreams flourish once moreoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2018
Nottingham’s Council Housing by Bus and Tramoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2018
Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housingoriginal ↗
29 May 2018
Panelák Prague: Communist Social Housing in the Former Czechoslovakia, Part Two Housing the Cityoriginal ↗
15 May 2018
Panelák Prague: Communist Social Housing in the Former Czechoslovakia, Part One Design and Developmentoriginal ↗
8 May 2018
Nissen-Petren Houses: ‘Not obnoxious and the people would be delighted to pay an economic rent’original ↗
24 Apr 2018
The Edward Woods Estate, Hammersmith, II: ‘High Rise Hope’?original ↗
10 Apr 2018
The Edward Woods Estate, Hammersmith, I: ‘the problem areas of today’original ↗
3 Apr 2018
Glyn Robbins, ‘There’s No Place: the American Housing Crisis and What It Means for the UK’ Book Revieworiginal ↗
20 Mar 2018
Municipal Greenwich, Part IIoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2018
Municipal Greenwich and a bit of the Isle of Dogs, Part Ioriginal ↗
27 Feb 2018
Aylesham and the Planning of the East Kent Coalfield, Part IIoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2018
Aylesham and the Planning of the East Kent Coalfield, Part Ioriginal ↗
6 Feb 2018
Duncan Bowie, ‘The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning’ Book Review: ‘the State, the Municipality … doing what men cannot do, or do so well’original ↗
23 Jan 2018
Council Housing in Walsall, Part IV: from 1979 to the presentoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2018
Council Housing in Walsall, Part III: Postwar Estates and High-Riseoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2018

2017

Mark Swenarton, ‘Cook’s Camden’ Book Review: ‘to take forward the project of the welfare state – but to do it better’original ↗
19 Dec 2017
Council Housing in Walsall, Part II: The Interwar Periodoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2017
Council Housing in Walsall, Part I: Before 1914 and the Impact of Waroriginal ↗
5 Dec 2017
Book Review: HKPA and Frederick Gibberd, ‘Building a Better World for All’original ↗
28 Nov 2017
The Broadwater Estate, Tottenham, Part II: ‘a strong vibrant community’original ↗
14 Nov 2017
The Broadwater Farm Estate, Tottenham, Part I: from ‘holiday camp’ to ‘dumping ground’?original ↗
7 Nov 2017
Council Housing and Community in Beverley: ‘from bad to worse’?original ↗
24 Oct 2017
Council Housing in Beverley: ‘Top notch in them days’original ↗
17 Oct 2017
Council Estate Pubs: ‘Never drink in a pub with a flat roof’original ↗
3 Oct 2017
North Oxfordshire: The ‘foxhunters, farmers and parsons’ and their first council houses, Part IIoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2017
North Oxfordshire: The ‘foxhunters, farmers and parsons’ and their first council houses, Part Ioriginal ↗
19 Sept 2017
Open House London 2017: Town Halls – Civic Pride and Serviceoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2017
Open House London, 2017: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housingoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2017
Municipal Dreams Goes to Hull, Part II: Civic grandeur, service and convenienceoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2017
Municipal Dreams in Hull, Part I: The best laid plans…original ↗
22 Aug 2017
Growing up on the Speke Estate, Liverpool: a personal perspectiveoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2017
A Long History of Grenfell Tower and the Lancaster West Estateoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2017
Ian Waites, ‘Middlefield: A postwar council estate in time’original ↗
18 Jul 2017
Tackling the Slums: Addison and the Sanitary Inspectors: Part 2, 1914-1939original ↗
3 Jul 2017
Tackling the Slums: Inspectors of Nuisance and the Sanitary Inspectors: Part 1, 1848-1914original ↗
27 Jun 2017
Grenfell Toweroriginal ↗
17 Jun 2017
The Blackbird Leys Estate, Oxford: ‘Never accepted as part of the city proper’original ↗
13 Jun 2017
A Radical Riverscape: Architecture and Revolution down the Fleetoriginal ↗
30 May 2017
Harlow: ‘Sculpture Town’original ↗
23 May 2017
Harlow New Town: ‘Home to the finest works of art’original ↗
16 May 2017
The Speke Estate, Liverpool II: ‘Speke is not Sarajevo; Speke is quite a nice estate’original ↗
2 May 2017
The Speke Estate, Liverpool: a ‘satellite town…planned to accommodate all classes of the community’original ↗
25 Apr 2017
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