Garden Cities or Revolution

By: Douglas Murphy

The Addison Act of 1919 created the basis for mass council housing, exorcising the spectre of communism through spacious suburban houses.

New houses being built in Becontree, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 19 November 1924. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Political battles around council housing in recent years have tended to focus on the products of the post-1945 era, on tower blocks and other highly symbolic architecture. We are still dealing with the fallout from the large-scale implementation of radical construction techniques, suffering the repercussions from the right-to-buy, and witnessing crusades to demolish estates for […]

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Political battles around council housing in recent years have tended to focus on the products of the post-1945 era, on tower blocks and other highly symbolic architecture. We are still dealing with the fallout from the large-scale implementation of radical construction techniques, suffering the repercussions from the right-to-buy, and witnessing crusades to demolish estates for […]

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Political battles around council housing in recent years have tended to focus on the products of the post-1945 era, on tower blocks and other highly symbolic architecture. We are still dealing with the fallout from the large-scale implementation of radical construction techniques, suffering the repercussions from the right-to-buy, and witnessing crusades to demolish estates for […]

Political battles around council housing in recent years have tended to focus on the products of the post-1945 era, on tower blocks and other highly symbolic architecture. We are still dealing with the fallout from the large-scale implementation of radical construction techniques, suffering the repercussions from the right-to-buy, and witnessing crusades to demolish estates for […]

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