Municipal Dreams

A Housing (and Civic) History of Huddersfield: Part I to 1918, ‘as advanced a town as any in the kingdom’

A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Country

Bedford, Part II from 1945: Postwar Planning and Innovative Development

Bedford, Part I to 1945: Controversy and Construction

The Kingswood Estate, West Dulwich II: ‘Something of a Paradox’

The Kingswood Estate, West Dulwich: ‘a New Dulwich ‘Village'”?

Dutch Hofjes: ‘Small, surprising green oases’

Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: ‘Reluctant Modernist’

Book Review: Ned Newitt, Housing the People of Leicester – a History of Social Housing

How Rotterdam Shaped Social Housing: Part II, Bergpolderflat and the Prototypical Slab Block

How Rotterdam Shaped Social Housing: Part I, the Justus van Effen Estate and ‘Streets in the Sky’

Gidea Park: the Modern Homes Exhibition, 1934

Gidea Park: the House and Cottage Exhibition, 1911

Building ‘Homes for Tomorrow’: Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980

Social Housing in Cologne, 1913-1933: Light, Air and Trees … and Modernism

A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part III, from 1967 to the Present

A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part II, from 1945 to 1966

A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part I, from the Industrial Revolution to the Second World War

The Hillcrest Estate, Highgate: ‘of a kind which many well-to-do people would very gladly inhabit’

Book Review and Author Interview: Rob Clayton, Provision – Architecture of the Post-War Consensus

Sceaux Gardens, Camberwell: ‘a Masterpiece of Good Planning’

Poplar High Street: a Walk on the Municipal Side