Civic perceptions: housing and local decision-making in English cities in the 1920s

Hayes, Nick

doi:10.1017/s0963926800000237

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“…Prefabrication was considered by some as being able to address housing shortages (Hayes, 2000). In Leicester, for example, there was a view that prefabricated concrete systems could solve the housing crisis.…”

Section: Traditional and Prefabricated Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Providing housing was a challenge in the post-war years. Although Hayes (2000) suggests that the public response to prefabrication was not unfavourable, the early post-war years did not inspire public confidence in non-traditional methods. Indeed, Piroozfar and Farr, (2013) identify the disapproval associated with prefabrication in the UK.…”

Section: Demand For Housing Due To Ww2mentioning

confidence: 99%

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A literature review of the evolution of British prefabricated low-rise housing

O’Neill¹,

Organ

2016

Structural Survey

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PurposeThis paper explores academic papers and reports and presents a chronology of the evolution of British low-rise prefabricated housing. The paper provides chronological information for construction and surveying researchers undertaking research in associated areas. Design/methodology/approachThis is a qualitative literature review, providing an exploration and analysis of academic papers and reports on low-rise prefabricated housing. FindingsA substantial literature was discovered. However, there are gaps in the available literature. The history of British construction technology is a rich research area but is under-researched.Prefabricated housing has a long history dating back to the 11 th Century. Stigmatised from the failures of housing in the 20 th Century, it is being increasingly used again in the 21 st Century when considering mass housing supply. Research limitations/implicationsThis paper provides researchers with an overview of the history of low-rise prefabricated housing in the Britain. It is not a comprehensive in-depth study; such would require numerous larger individual studies. Originality/valueFrom reviewing literature it was evident that there was a broad literature, but there was no single journal publication exploring the evolution of British low-rise prefabricated housing.The research provides an overview, exploration and analysis of the literature while providing a chronology. The evolution of prefabricated housing is chronologically presented. Areas for further research are also recommended.

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Section: Traditional and Prefabricated Methodsmentioning

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Section: Demand For Housing Due To Ww2mentioning

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A literature review of the evolution of British prefabricated low-rise housing

O’Neill¹,

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2016

Structural Survey

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“…In municipal housing a self-aware notion of civic identity framed the way the city council presented itself as an enlightened authority, adopting a "'new spirit' of technological utility and experiment." 143 Endowed with a solid local political consensus about the importance of council services, it was supported by new administrative officers and "strong-minded councilors." 144 This was apparent in the forward-thinking activities of the city's education committee in areas such as physical education and the establishment of nursery schools.…”

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“A Nation Depends on Its Children”: School Buildings and Citizenship in England and Wales, 1900–1939

Hulme¹

2015

J. Br. Stud.

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Calls for a renewed sense of “good citizenship” in the early twentieth century were loud and persistent. Especially important in the citizenship quest was the creation of healthy and efficient children, cured of urban maladies and loyal to a wide notion of community. Such attributes were seen as vital in an economically and militarily competitive world. Historians have already examined the sorts of political and bodily education that arose from these concerns. This article instead looks at how the focus on the body and citizenship was realized in the actual processes of school building. From the medical discourses that underpinned the design of heating, lighting, and ventilation systems, to the emerging focus on the sensory environment of the classroom, the materiality of the school was essential to creating the “good citizen”—physically fit, economically productive, and loyal to the nation.

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“…60 It is also to construe neutrality as passivity, rather than offering consensus and civic inclusivity as a purposeful dynamic spurring the development of an expanding service provision through the local state. 61 To return briefly to our testing site, a consensus viewed through a passivelyorientated municipal filter might capture Hallam's brief criticism, but it ignores the authority of an editorial in full magisterial voice, fulfilling its obligations as civic ‗watchdog'. Central to the criticism levelled at Hallam was that he failed to acquiesce to these inclusive ‗rules of the game': his secrecy made reporting more difficult, and the committee's actions, in being less open to scrutiny, less democratic and responsive to the community's urgent needs.…”

Section: Structural/functional Change and 'Legitimacy'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Evening Post, nevertheless, happily retold the story of a former London vicar exploring Nottingham's ‗appalling' slums: apparently never having ‗seen anything quite as bad as what I found here.' 90 In Leicester, shortages rather than dilapidated stock, dominated local disclosure. Yet the methodology functioned similarly, although with greater immediacy because shortages were city wide, not spatially discrete, and were thus less able to be consumed as vicarious pleasures:…”

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