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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0bbec-3df7-7122-9bf5-b55a9619cddf", "title": "Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from London’s Past: a Review", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/mobilising-housing-histories-learning-from-londons-past-a-review/", "published_at": "2017-04-11T06:30:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbef-6422-7008-846c-a9d773873c46", "title": "Charles Dickens House, Bethnal Green II: The Tide of Tall Building Turns", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/charles_dickens_house_ii/", "published_at": "2017-04-04T06:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbef-6422-7008-846c-a9d774007544", "title": "Charles Dickens House, Bethnal Green I: ‘Clear the Slums!’ – the Surge that Produced Tall Blocks", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/7141/", "published_at": "2017-03-28T05:30:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbef-6422-7008-846c-a9d77478343e", "title": "The Chinbrook Estate, Lewisham: a ‘tremendous improvement in environment and standard of 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Shepherd’s Bush: ‘I like it but maybe it’s not for everyone’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/the_white_city_estate_part_two/", "published_at": "2017-01-24T07:30:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbef-6422-7008-846c-a9d7765c62b1", "title": "The White City Estate, Shepherd’s Bush: ‘the modern outlook in housing provision’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/the_white_city_estate_part_one/", "published_at": "2017-01-17T07:30:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbef-6422-7008-846c-a9d7771e5d63", "title": "Bradford’s Pre-1914 Council Housing: a ‘victory in one of the earliest of conflicts between property and life’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/bradfords-pre-1914-council-housing/", "published_at": "2017-01-03T07:30:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbef-6422-7008-846c-a9d7780f68a0", "title": "Brutal London by Simon Phipps", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/brutal-london-by-simon-phipps/", "published_at": "2016-12-20T07:30:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae95985aca", "title": "Early Council Housing in Banbury, Part II: King’s Road and the Cow Fair Roarer", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/early-council-housing-in-banbury-part-ii-kings-road-and-the-cow-fair-roarer/", "published_at": "2016-12-13T07:30:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae9673a1a5", "title": "Early Council Housing in Banbury, Part I: King’s Road and the Cow Fair Roarer", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/early-council-housing-in-banbury-part-i-kings-road-and-the-cow-fair-roarer/", "published_at": "2016-12-06T07:30:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae973a74af", "title": "Londonist Podcast", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/londonist-podcast/", "published_at": "2016-12-04T07:46:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae9782f774", "title": "The Pendleton Estate, Salford II: ‘a distinctive neighbourhood with a strong identity’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/the-pendleton-estate_ii/", "published_at": "2016-11-22T07:30:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae9835467d", "title": "The Pendleton Estate I: ‘A Salford of the Space Age’ or ‘Concrete Wasteland’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/salford_of_the_space_age/", "published_at": "2016-11-15T07:30:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae98c781bd", "title": "The Ellor Street Redevelopment Area, Salford: ‘No Hanky Park, no more’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/11/08/ellor-street-redevelopment-salford/", "published_at": "2016-11-08T07:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae9993b4df", "title": "The Five Estates, Peckham, Part III: Back to the Future", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/the-five-estates-peckham-part-iii/", "published_at": "2016-10-25T06:30:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae99f4ad70", "title": "The Five Estates, Peckham, Part II: ‘It wasn’t all bad’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/the-five-estates-peckham-part-ii/", "published_at": "2016-10-18T06:30:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae9a60dd4a", "title": "The Five Estates, Peckham, Part I: ‘Planning is for people’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/the-five-estates-peckham-part-one/", "published_at": "2016-10-11T06:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf2-7403-7092-9662-adae9b2eae07", "title": "‘The plan might look well on paper but it would not be London’: How the London County Council used art and architecture to rebuild the communities of London", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/lcc_art_architecture_community/", "published_at": "2016-09-27T06:30:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d3e3046c", "title": "Open House London 2016: Town Halls – Civic Pride and Service", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/6115/", "published_at": "2016-09-15T06:30:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d3eed9c1", "title": "Open House London 2016: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing, Part Two", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/open-house-2016-two/", "published_at": "2016-09-13T06:30:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d42c139f", "title": "Open House London 2016: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing, Part One", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/open-house-2016-one/", "published_at": "2016-09-06T06:30:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d4709936", "title": "A Housing History of the Beatles: Three ‘working-class heroes’ and John", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/the-housing-history-of-the-beatles/", "published_at": "2016-08-30T06:30:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d4cd5b3b", "title": "Early Council Housing in Exeter: ‘decent houses for the working class’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/early-council-housing-in-exeter/", "published_at": "2016-08-09T06:30:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d535fa9f", "title": "Collage picture archive: ‘tired of London, tired of life’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/collage_london_metropolitan_archives/", "published_at": "2016-07-26T06:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d59caea3", "title": "Harlow New Town: ‘Are you going my way?’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/harlow-new-town-part-two/", "published_at": "2016-07-12T06:30:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d5a76728", "title": "Harlow New Town: ‘Too good to be true’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/harlow-new-town-part-one/", "published_at": "2016-07-05T06:35:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d667d976", "title": "Municipal Dreams goes to Liverpool, part II", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/municipal-dreams-goes-to-liverpool-part-ii/", "published_at": "2016-06-21T06:30:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf5-5274-73bf-a93c-d256d6a005b7", "title": "Municipal Dreams goes to Liverpool, part I", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/a-weekend-in-liverpool-i/", "published_at": "2016-06-14T06:30:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f0fad8f69", "title": "Leslie Martin and the Fitzhugh Estate, Wandsworth: ‘A Blueprint for Living’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/leslie-martin-and-the-fitzhugh-estate-a-blueprint-for-living/", "published_at": "2016-05-31T06:30:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f108e8a4b", "title": "‘Somewhere Decent to Live: London County Council Estates in Photographs, 1895-1975’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/somewhere-decent-to-live-london-county-council-estates-in-photographs-1895-1975/", "published_at": "2016-05-24T19:00:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f1153e025", "title": "Martin Crookston, ‘Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow? A New Future for the Cottage Estates’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/5358/", "published_at": "2016-05-24T06:30:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f11c670d8", "title": "Lion Farm Estate: a Photo-Essay by Robert Clayton", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/robert_clayton_lion_farm_estate_photo-essay/", "published_at": "2016-05-10T06:30:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f122dfe11", "title": "New Books on Brutalism: ‘Raw Concrete’ and ‘Concrete Concepts’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/new_books_on_brutalism/", "published_at": "2016-04-25T06:30:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f12c17095", "title": "The Castle Vale Estate, Birmingham, Part II: ‘a dignified low-rise estate’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/5098/", "published_at": "2016-04-12T06:30:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f12e29c33", "title": "The Castle Vale Estate, Birmingham, Part I: ‘Utopia’ to ‘civic pigsty’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/5078/", "published_at": "2016-04-05T11:30:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f13ae078e", "title": "Book Review: Stephen Willats, Vision and Reality", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/5023/", "published_at": "2016-03-21T07:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f13b0af0b", "title": "Post-War Housing in Hackney: ‘Far removed from the pre-war conception of “council flats”‘", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/hackney/", "published_at": "2016-03-08T07:30:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbf8-3a8a-7227-96ae-2a1f13cd2cd2", "title": "The Meadow Well Estate, North Shields II: ‘decent people living on a decent estate’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/the-meadow-well-estate-north-shields-ii/", "published_at": "2016-02-23T07:30:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34de768fa9", "title": "The Meadow Well Estate, North Shields I: ‘a victim of labelling’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/the-meadow-well-estate-north-shields-i/", "published_at": "2016-02-16T07:30:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34de8785b4", "title": "Canley Today: “Not a Reassuring Neighbourhood”", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/canley-today-not-a-reassuring-neighbourhood/", "published_at": "2016-02-02T07:30:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34ded82536", "title": "A Brief History of Council Housing in Wandsworth, Part II: 1945 to the present", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/a-brief-history-of-council-housing-in-wandsworth-part-ii-1945-to-the-present/", "published_at": "2016-01-19T07:30:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34dee3c7b9", "title": "A Brief History of Council Housing in Wandsworth, Part I: 1900-1939", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/council-housing-wandsworth-part-1/", "published_at": "2016-01-12T07:30:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34defa5cc6", "title": "The Brandon Estate, Southwark II: ‘It was going to be paradise’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/the-brandon-estate-southwark-part-two/", "published_at": "2015-12-22T07:30:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34df9acabc", "title": "The Brandon Estate, Southwark I: ‘New and dramatic’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/12/15/the-brandon-estate-southwark-part-one/", "published_at": "2015-12-15T07:30:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34dfbc3533", "title": "Book Review – ‘Homes and Places: A History of Nottingham’s Council Houses’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/book-review-homes-and-places-a-history-of-nottinghams-council-houses/", "published_at": "2015-12-08T07:30:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34e09ec2db", "title": "The Canley Estate, Coventry: Building the Community", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/the-canley-estate-coventry-building-the-community/", "published_at": "2015-12-01T07:30:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34e16b9d0c", "title": "The Canley Estate, Coventry: ‘The Place Where I Grew Up’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/canley_estate_coventry/", "published_at": "2015-11-24T07:30:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbfb-09bf-7151-ae0c-4d34e264ba87", "title": "Stow Road, Ixworth: ‘Thingoe’s Follies’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/ixworth_first_rural_council_housing/", "published_at": "2015-11-10T07:30:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff682e97f27", "title": "Octavia Hill: ‘a life more noble’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/octavia-hill-a-life-more-noble/", "published_at": "2015-11-03T07:30:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff6838b7656", "title": "The Rise and Fall of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, Part 2: Failed Post-War Visions?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-red-road-flats-part-2-failed-postwar-visions/", "published_at": "2015-10-27T07:30:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff683f94241", "title": "The Rise and Fall of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, Part 1: Glasgow Housing in Historical Context", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/the-rise-and-fall-of-glasgows-red-road-flats-part-1-glasgow-housing-in-historical-context/", "published_at": "2015-10-20T06:30:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff68465cbf5", "title": "The Saffron Lane Estate, Leicester II: ‘a victory for the people’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/the-saffron-lane-estate-leicester-ii-a-victory-for-the-people/", "published_at": "2015-10-13T06:30:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff684b25a03", "title": "The Saffron Lane Estate, Leicester I: ‘moving into paradise’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/the-saffron-lane-estate-leicester-moving-into-paradise/", "published_at": "2015-10-06T06:30:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff6854515bc", "title": "Norwich Council Housing, 1955-74: David Percival and ‘Regional Architectural Tradition’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/norwich_architectural_tradition/", "published_at": "2015-09-29T06:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff685a277c4", "title": "Council Housing in Norwich: ‘I thought we were ever so posh’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/council-housing-in-norwich-i-thought-we-were-ever-so-posh/", "published_at": "2015-09-22T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff686a0c9f5", "title": "Open House London, 2015: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing, Part Two", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/open-house-london-a-tour-of-the-capitals-council-housing-part-two/", "published_at": "2015-09-15T06:30:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff686d07b6a", "title": "Open House London, 2015: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing, Part One", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/open-house-london-a-tour-of-the-capitals-council-housing-part-one/", "published_at": "2015-09-08T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbff-0dfd-70a1-a091-8ff68795daad", "title": "Municipal Saltash: a ‘Borough Town’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/municipal-saltash-a-borough-town/", "published_at": "2015-09-01T06:30:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e3e046626", "title": "The Pepys Estate, Deptford: ‘a Tale of Two Cities’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/a_tale_of_two_cities/", "published_at": "2015-08-18T06:30:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e3ecd157e", "title": "The Pepys Estate, Deptford: from ‘Showcase’ to ‘Nightmare’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/the-pepys-estate-deptford-showcase-to-nightmare/", "published_at": "2015-08-11T06:30:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e3f549114", "title": "The Pepys Estate, Deptford: for ‘the peaceful enjoyment and well-being of Londoners’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/the-pepys-estate-deptford-for-the-peaceful-enjoyment-and-well-being-of-londoners/", "published_at": "2015-08-04T06:30:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e3f9160f3", "title": "The LCC and the Arts II: the ‘Patronage of the Arts’ Scheme", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/lcc_patronage_of_the_arts/", "published_at": "2015-07-28T06:30:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e3ffe66f3", "title": "The LCC and the Arts I: The Open-Air Sculpture Exhibitions", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/lcc_open_air_sculpture/", "published_at": "2015-07-21T06:30:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e40d53c36", "title": "Stepney’s Early Town Halls: ‘fine commodious buildings’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/07/14/stepneys-early-town-halls/", "published_at": "2015-07-14T06:30:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e40fe96a8", "title": "A Guide to What You May Have Missed", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/a-guide-to-what-you-may-have-missed/", "published_at": "2015-07-07T08:06:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e417e2a4b", "title": "Council Housing in Winchelsea: ‘the working class are not wanted on the hill’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/winchelsea_council_housing/", "published_at": "2015-06-30T06:23:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e4268b622", "title": "The Ermine Estate, Lincoln: ‘Social Democracy in Action’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/the-ermine-estate-lincoln-social-democracy-in-action/", "published_at": "2015-06-23T06:30:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc01-a8d0-70b6-89c6-9b2e42d97847", "title": "Lincoln’s Early Council Housing: the Corporation’s ‘duty to provide the houses themselves’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/lincolns-early-council-housing-the-corporations-duty-to-provide-the-houses-themselves/", "published_at": "2015-06-16T06:30:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e63548f1986a", "title": "Tunbridge Wells Town Hall: dignity ‘without elaborate or unnecessary features’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/tunbridge-wells-town-hall-dignity-without-elaborate-or-unnecessary-features/", "published_at": "2015-06-09T06:30:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e63549cc01ea", "title": "Post-War High-Rise in Birmingham III: the blocks come down", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/post-war-high-rise-in-birmingham-iii-the-blocks-come-down/", "published_at": "2015-06-02T06:30:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e6354a8672f7", "title": "Post-war High-Rise in Birmingham II: ‘Get these people out of the slums!’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/post-war-high-rise-in-birmingham-ii-get-these-people-out-of-the-slums/", "published_at": "2015-05-26T06:30:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e6354b18ea6d", "title": "Post-war High-Rise in Birmingham I: ‘Saucer City’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/saucer_city/", "published_at": "2015-05-19T06:30:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e6354b243521", "title": "Highgate New Town: dreams and nightmares", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/highgate_new_town_dreams_and_nightmares/", "published_at": "2015-05-12T06:30:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e6354b2c451a", "title": "The Dartmouth Park Hill Estate, Camden: ‘memories of Edwardian villas and the welcoming scale of a delightful suburbia’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/memories-of-edwardian-garden-villas/", "published_at": "2015-05-05T06:30:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e6354b843ad9", "title": "The Whittington Estate, Camden: ‘a form of housing…more closely related to the existing urban fabric’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/the-whittington-estate-camden/", "published_at": "2015-04-28T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e6354c58ea29", "title": "Council Housing in Plymouth before 1914: ‘the merry homes of England’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/council-housing-in-plymouth-before-1914/", "published_at": "2015-04-21T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e6354cf04888", "title": "Housing in St Pancras before 1914: ‘the foulest parish in all London’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/st_pancras_before_1914/", "published_at": "2015-04-14T06:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc04-3676-71fc-a86f-e6354dc835f9", "title": "Clay Cross Council: ‘doing our job – and that’s to help the working class, the cream of the nation’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/clay_cross_part_two/", "published_at": "2015-03-31T06:30:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd113f2a60b", "title": "Clay Cross Council: ‘an expression of the will of the people’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/clay_cross_part_one/", "published_at": "2015-03-24T07:30:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd114d6e9b7", "title": "The Mile Cross Estate, Norwich: ‘providing adequate living accommodation for all’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/interwar_council_housing_norwich/", "published_at": "2015-03-17T07:30:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd1156c5c1e", "title": "The Raffles Estate, Carlisle: ‘I was a lucky girl’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/raffles_estate_carlisle/", "published_at": "2015-03-10T07:30:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd115a3548f", "title": "Carlisle’s Interwar Council Housing: ‘careful housekeeping…good and progressive government’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/interwar_carlisle/", "published_at": "2015-03-03T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd116572240", "title": "The Regent’s Park Estate, St Pancras: ‘catering for the main bulk and backbone of our people’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/regents_park_estate/", "published_at": "2015-02-24T07:30:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd11746f316", "title": "The Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin: ‘light and air, dignity and order’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/hufeisensiedlung_berlin/", "published_at": "2015-02-17T07:30:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd1178253ee", "title": "Liverpool’s Interwar Multi-Storey Housing: Building an ‘A1 community in a properly planned township of flats’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/liverpools-interwar-multi-storey-tenements-building-an-a1-community-in-a-properly-planned-township-of-flats/", "published_at": "2015-02-10T07:30:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd117864100", "title": "The Honor Oak Estate, Lewisham: ‘the forgotten estate’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/the-honor-oak-estate-lewisham/", "published_at": "2015-02-03T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd117fd2e4e", "title": "The Honor Oak Estate, Lewisham: ‘A warning for planners’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/the-honor-oak-estate-lewisham-a-warning-for-planners/", "published_at": "2015-01-27T07:30:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc06-d928-728c-92d3-dbd11853819e", "title": "Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/brightons-interwar-council-housing-estates/", "published_at": "2015-01-20T07:30:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2e9c9be95b", "title": "John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘the greatness of the country lies in the houses of the people’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/john-scurr-house-stepney/", "published_at": "2015-01-13T07:30:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2e9cf52eb8", "title": "John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘Stepney Council’s New Luxury Flats’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/john-scurr-house/", "published_at": "2015-01-06T07:30:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2e9dee5cba", "title": "Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/interwar-council-housing-in-lancaster/", "published_at": "2014-12-16T07:30:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2e9e0e0a75", "title": "The Low Hill Estate, Wolverhampton: ‘a popular place to live’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/the-low-hill-estate-wolverhampton/", "published_at": "2014-12-09T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2e9ea38f0e", "title": "Wolverhampton’s Interwar Council Estates: ‘tenanted by respectable residents’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/interwar-council-in-wolverhampton/", "published_at": "2014-12-02T07:30:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2e9f72a642", "title": "Dawson’s Heights, East Dulwich: ‘an example of the almost-lost art of romantic townscape’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/dawsons-heights-east-dulwich-an-example-of-the-almost-lost-art-of-romantic-townscape/", "published_at": "2014-11-25T07:30:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2e9fe46acd", "title": "The Manor Estate, Sheffield: ‘the worst estate in Britain’?", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/the-manor-estate-sheffield/", "published_at": "2014-11-18T07:30:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2ea03f1e12", "title": "Sheffield’s Interwar Council Estates: ‘the pampered pets of the Corporation’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/sheffields-interwar-council-estates-the-pampered-pets-of-the-corporation/", "published_at": "2014-11-11T07:30:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bc09-369a-7094-8b5b-7d2ea0f4c610", "title": "The Weoley Castle Estate, Birmingham: ‘Everything that science and ingenuity can provide’", "url": "https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/the-weoley-castle-estate-birmingham-everything-that-science-and-ingenuity-can-provide/", "published_at": "2014-11-04T07:30:12+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2017

Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from London’s Past: a Revieworiginal ↗
11 Apr 2017
Charles Dickens House, Bethnal Green II: The Tide of Tall Building Turnsoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2017
Charles Dickens House, Bethnal Green I: ‘Clear the Slums!’ – the Surge that Produced Tall Blocksoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2017
The Chinbrook Estate, Lewisham: a ‘tremendous improvement in environment and standard of living’original ↗
14 Mar 2017
The Grove Park Estate, Lewisham: ‘a real “Garden City”‘original ↗
7 Mar 2017
Berlin’s Modernist Interwar Estates II: ‘Light, air and sun’original ↗
21 Feb 2017
Berlin’s Modernist Interwar Estates I: ‘Every German their own healthy home’original ↗
14 Feb 2017
The White City Estate, Shepherd’s Bush: ‘I like it but maybe it’s not for everyone’original ↗
24 Jan 2017
The White City Estate, Shepherd’s Bush: ‘the modern outlook in housing provision’original ↗
17 Jan 2017
Bradford’s Pre-1914 Council Housing: a ‘victory in one of the earliest of conflicts between property and life’original ↗
3 Jan 2017

2016

Brutal London by Simon Phippsoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2016
Early Council Housing in Banbury, Part II: King’s Road and the Cow Fair Roareroriginal ↗
13 Dec 2016
Early Council Housing in Banbury, Part I: King’s Road and the Cow Fair Roareroriginal ↗
6 Dec 2016
Londonist Podcastoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2016
The Pendleton Estate, Salford II: ‘a distinctive neighbourhood with a strong identity’original ↗
22 Nov 2016
The Pendleton Estate I: ‘A Salford of the Space Age’ or ‘Concrete Wasteland’?original ↗
15 Nov 2016
The Ellor Street Redevelopment Area, Salford: ‘No Hanky Park, no more’original ↗
8 Nov 2016
The Five Estates, Peckham, Part III: Back to the Futureoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2016
The Five Estates, Peckham, Part II: ‘It wasn’t all bad’original ↗
18 Oct 2016
The Five Estates, Peckham, Part I: ‘Planning is for people’original ↗
11 Oct 2016
‘The plan might look well on paper but it would not be London’: How the London County Council used art and architecture to rebuild the communities of Londonoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2016
Open House London 2016: Town Halls – Civic Pride and Serviceoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2016
Open House London 2016: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing, Part Twooriginal ↗
13 Sept 2016
Open House London 2016: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing, Part Oneoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2016
A Housing History of the Beatles: Three ‘working-class heroes’ and Johnoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2016
Early Council Housing in Exeter: ‘decent houses for the working class’original ↗
9 Aug 2016
Collage picture archive: ‘tired of London, tired of life’original ↗
26 Jul 2016
Harlow New Town: ‘Are you going my way?’original ↗
12 Jul 2016
Harlow New Town: ‘Too good to be true’?original ↗
5 Jul 2016
Municipal Dreams goes to Liverpool, part IIoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2016
Municipal Dreams goes to Liverpool, part Ioriginal ↗
14 Jun 2016
Leslie Martin and the Fitzhugh Estate, Wandsworth: ‘A Blueprint for Living’original ↗
31 May 2016
‘Somewhere Decent to Live: London County Council Estates in Photographs, 1895-1975’original ↗
24 May 2016
Martin Crookston, ‘Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow? A New Future for the Cottage Estates’original ↗
24 May 2016
Lion Farm Estate: a Photo-Essay by Robert Claytonoriginal ↗
10 May 2016
New Books on Brutalism: ‘Raw Concrete’ and ‘Concrete Concepts’original ↗
25 Apr 2016
The Castle Vale Estate, Birmingham, Part II: ‘a dignified low-rise estate’original ↗
12 Apr 2016
The Castle Vale Estate, Birmingham, Part I: ‘Utopia’ to ‘civic pigsty’original ↗
5 Apr 2016
Book Review: Stephen Willats, Vision and Realityoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2016
Post-War Housing in Hackney: ‘Far removed from the pre-war conception of “council flats”‘original ↗
8 Mar 2016
The Meadow Well Estate, North Shields II: ‘decent people living on a decent estate’original ↗
23 Feb 2016
The Meadow Well Estate, North Shields I: ‘a victim of labelling’original ↗
16 Feb 2016
Canley Today: “Not a Reassuring Neighbourhood”original ↗
2 Feb 2016
A Brief History of Council Housing in Wandsworth, Part II: 1945 to the presentoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2016
A Brief History of Council Housing in Wandsworth, Part I: 1900-1939original ↗
12 Jan 2016

2015

The Brandon Estate, Southwark II: ‘It was going to be paradise’original ↗
22 Dec 2015
The Brandon Estate, Southwark I: ‘New and dramatic’original ↗
15 Dec 2015
Book Review – ‘Homes and Places: A History of Nottingham’s Council Houses’original ↗
8 Dec 2015
The Canley Estate, Coventry: Building the Communityoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2015
The Canley Estate, Coventry: ‘The Place Where I Grew Up’original ↗
24 Nov 2015
Stow Road, Ixworth: ‘Thingoe’s Follies’original ↗
10 Nov 2015
Octavia Hill: ‘a life more noble’original ↗
3 Nov 2015
The Rise and Fall of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, Part 2: Failed Post-War Visions?original ↗
27 Oct 2015
The Rise and Fall of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, Part 1: Glasgow Housing in Historical Contextoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2015
The Saffron Lane Estate, Leicester II: ‘a victory for the people’original ↗
13 Oct 2015
The Saffron Lane Estate, Leicester I: ‘moving into paradise’original ↗
6 Oct 2015
Norwich Council Housing, 1955-74: David Percival and ‘Regional Architectural Tradition’original ↗
29 Sept 2015
Council Housing in Norwich: ‘I thought we were ever so posh’original ↗
22 Sept 2015
Open House London, 2015: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing, Part Twooriginal ↗
15 Sept 2015
Open House London, 2015: A Tour of the Capital’s Council Housing, Part Oneoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2015
Municipal Saltash: a ‘Borough Town’original ↗
1 Sept 2015
The Pepys Estate, Deptford: ‘a Tale of Two Cities’original ↗
18 Aug 2015
The Pepys Estate, Deptford: from ‘Showcase’ to ‘Nightmare’original ↗
11 Aug 2015
The Pepys Estate, Deptford: for ‘the peaceful enjoyment and well-being of Londoners’original ↗
4 Aug 2015
The LCC and the Arts II: the ‘Patronage of the Arts’ Schemeoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2015
The LCC and the Arts I: The Open-Air Sculpture Exhibitionsoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2015
Stepney’s Early Town Halls: ‘fine commodious buildings’original ↗
14 Jul 2015
A Guide to What You May Have Missedoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2015
Council Housing in Winchelsea: ‘the working class are not wanted on the hill’original ↗
30 Jun 2015
The Ermine Estate, Lincoln: ‘Social Democracy in Action’original ↗
23 Jun 2015
Lincoln’s Early Council Housing: the Corporation’s ‘duty to provide the houses themselves’original ↗
16 Jun 2015
Tunbridge Wells Town Hall: dignity ‘without elaborate or unnecessary features’original ↗
9 Jun 2015
Post-War High-Rise in Birmingham III: the blocks come downoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2015
Post-war High-Rise in Birmingham II: ‘Get these people out of the slums!’original ↗
26 May 2015
Post-war High-Rise in Birmingham I: ‘Saucer City’original ↗
19 May 2015
Highgate New Town: dreams and nightmaresoriginal ↗
12 May 2015
The Dartmouth Park Hill Estate, Camden: ‘memories of Edwardian villas and the welcoming scale of a delightful suburbia’original ↗
5 May 2015
The Whittington Estate, Camden: ‘a form of housing…more closely related to the existing urban fabric’original ↗
28 Apr 2015
Council Housing in Plymouth before 1914: ‘the merry homes of England’original ↗
21 Apr 2015
Housing in St Pancras before 1914: ‘the foulest parish in all London’original ↗
14 Apr 2015
Clay Cross Council: ‘doing our job – and that’s to help the working class, the cream of the nation’original ↗
31 Mar 2015
Clay Cross Council: ‘an expression of the will of the people’original ↗
24 Mar 2015
The Mile Cross Estate, Norwich: ‘providing adequate living accommodation for all’original ↗
17 Mar 2015
The Raffles Estate, Carlisle: ‘I was a lucky girl’original ↗
10 Mar 2015
Carlisle’s Interwar Council Housing: ‘careful housekeeping…good and progressive government’original ↗
3 Mar 2015
The Regent’s Park Estate, St Pancras: ‘catering for the main bulk and backbone of our people’original ↗
24 Feb 2015
The Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin: ‘light and air, dignity and order’original ↗
17 Feb 2015
Liverpool’s Interwar Multi-Storey Housing: Building an ‘A1 community in a properly planned township of flats’original ↗
10 Feb 2015
The Honor Oak Estate, Lewisham: ‘the forgotten estate’original ↗
3 Feb 2015
The Honor Oak Estate, Lewisham: ‘A warning for planners’original ↗
27 Jan 2015
Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’original ↗
20 Jan 2015
John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘the greatness of the country lies in the houses of the people’original ↗
13 Jan 2015
John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘Stepney Council’s New Luxury Flats’original ↗
6 Jan 2015

2014

Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’original ↗
16 Dec 2014
The Low Hill Estate, Wolverhampton: ‘a popular place to live’original ↗
9 Dec 2014
Wolverhampton’s Interwar Council Estates: ‘tenanted by respectable residents’original ↗
2 Dec 2014
Dawson’s Heights, East Dulwich: ‘an example of the almost-lost art of romantic townscape’original ↗
25 Nov 2014
The Manor Estate, Sheffield: ‘the worst estate in Britain’?original ↗
18 Nov 2014
Sheffield’s Interwar Council Estates: ‘the pampered pets of the Corporation’original ↗
11 Nov 2014
The Weoley Castle Estate, Birmingham: ‘Everything that science and ingenuity can provide’original ↗
4 Nov 2014
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