Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from Homes Fit for Heroes to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks, to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.

• We started tracking this book on January 12, 2014.
• This book was £6.15 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 65 times in the past 3,927 days.
• The current price of this book is £7.59 last checked 19 hours ago.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is £7.57.
• The lowest price to date was £4.69 last reached on March 9, 2017.
• This book has been £4.69 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £8.03 last reached on July 30, 2024.
• This book has been £8.03 4 times since we started tracking it.

• Politics & Social SciencesUrban Planning & Development
• HistoryUK

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 260 Pages
• File Size: 4,395 KB