By J.A. Yelling
In line with in depth documentary study , this is often the 1st full-scale research of the politics of the slum query in England among the realm wars, and of linked coverage and perform within the fields of housing and city making plans. it's the moment quantity in a trilogy which started with "Slums and Slum Clearance" (Allen & Unwin 1986) and that's accomplished with a 3rd quantity overlaying the interval due to the fact 1945. From the early Victorian interval to the Nineteen Seventies, the query of slums occupied an immense position in British politics and in housing and city making plans regulations. The inter-war interval has significant attractions. It sees the recovery of slum clearance following a interval of competition and the onset of the 1st nationwide slum clearance crusade. It reaches its climax within the plans for large-scale redevelopment made in the course of international conflict II. even though slum clearance constructed from nineteenth-century inspiration and perform, inner-city redevelopment of this sort had its highbrow origins within the Thirties. actions akin to slum clearance had a dramatic influence on these humans and areas affected, yet political formulations of the slum query additionally had a lot wider repercussions for estate and social coverage. particularly, that they had an immense position in shaping differences that experience marked glossy British towns: among private and non-private housing, internal urban and suburbs, apartment and flat. As a learn of perform in addition to coverage, it is a significant unique paintings on an issue of frequent curiosity in the course of the heritage, geography, city reviews and making plans groups. it is going to be an essential resource for these drawn to slum stipulations, redevelopment and housing perform, even if in an old or modern context, and it discusses problems with foreign relevance. This e-book is meant for city historians, historic geographers, historians of housing and making plans, scholars and researchers in modern housing and making plans experiences.
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Moreover, the centre of attention was the divide between working-class and middleclass housing, and a narrowing of the differences between the two. The emergence of the Labour Party as a political force at the end of the war increased the chances that these concerns would be carried into periods of more normal electoral activity. The arrival of universal adult suffrage might also be expected to raise the political profile of housing, which was thought to be an issue especially appealing to women.
Afterwards, the rôle of council housing itself became one of the major pivots around which other aspects of policy were arranged, and this was also a key factor in pushing housing on to the national agenda, as opposed to leaving it to local councils to determine. In the immediate term, a tension between a wider rôle for council housing as part of some kind of liberation from the existing city, and a narrower rôle concentrated on slum clearance and rehousing was to be a dominant feature. A secondary tension, essentially within the Conservative Party, lay between clearance and reconditioning policies, the latter often being linked to public promotion of decentralization.
20] From an opposite point of view, the Estates Gazette also had “an uneasy suspicion that control will never be relaxed and that sufficient political pressure will always be forthcoming to prevent its removal”. Except for slum clearance, council housing was not desirable, and any new arrangements should allow for council houses to be sold to their tenants, since “it is our duty to make occupying ownership easy and natural. ”[21] Chamberlain duly represented housing as one of the most obstinate “problems which the War has left behind it”.
