From Boundary Estate to Grenfell Tower : the changing perceptions of the role of Britain's council housing

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F21%3A43970792" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/21:43970792 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/144883" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/144883</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2021-2-12" target="_blank" >10.5817/BSE2021-2-12</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Boundary Estate to Grenfell Tower : the changing perceptions of the role of Britain's council housing

Original language description

In its heyday in the 1970s, Britain’s council housing sector provided homes to 40 per cent of the British population before falling victim to privatization, which changed homes for Britain’s workers into commodities subject to property speculation. The fraction of the original council housing stock that has been preserved serves the needs of the society’s most vulnerable. However, the concept of council housing as social housing is a later one; originally, council estates were designed for aspirational workers and were intended as mixed communities, with working and middle-class residents living side by side. Taking a historical perspective, the article maps the development of the concept of council housing in Britain from the original idea, inspired by garden cities such as Letchworth or Welwyn Garden City, to the gradual changes to both the design of council estates and their intended purpose that transformed the once socially desirable housing type into a symbol of social failure and deprivation. The recent tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire is used as a case in point to illustrate this process of change. In addition to historical research, the paper draws on recent sociological reports and newspaper articles dealing with the issue of Britain’s council housing.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Brno Studies in English

ISSN

0524-6881

e-ISSN

1805-0867

Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

167-181

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85128754186