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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Brno Studies in English

ISSN

0524-6881

e-ISSN

1805-0867

Svazek periodika

47

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

167-181

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85128754186