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Description: | The London County Council was doing a lot of post-war estate building in the 1950s. Since the war, housing for many people had fallen below standards that were desirable, as the book mentions: 'slum clearance sites now comprise the greater part of the annual programme.'
The book details the different plans for flats, maisonettes and terraced housing that the council were building. It compares the economies of one type of housing above another, and the policies for housing small and large families at different building heights.
Yet it was not all about money; there are ideas about how to avoid oppressive interiors by using as much natural light as possible, and of incorporating pleasant double height balconies.
(JA) | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | MoDA, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (Middlesex University) | Subjects: | Cityscape | Temporal: | 1956 | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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