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The Hillcrest Estate, Highgate: ‘of a kind which many well-to-do people would very gladly inhabit’
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/the-hillcrest-estate-highgate-of-a-kind-which-many-well-to-do-people-would-very-gladly-inhabit/
Published: April 1, 2025 06:30
I’m very pleased to feature this week a guest by Ray Rogers who ha contributed previously with a fine account …Continue reading →
Book Review and Author Interview: Rob Clayton, Provision – Architecture of the Post-War Consensus
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/book-review-and-author-interview-rob-clayton-provision-architecture-of-the-post-war-consensus/
Published: March 25, 2025 07:30
Rob Clayton, Provision – Architecture of the Post-War Consensus (Stay Free Publishing, 2025) ‘Provision’ might seem, at first glance, a …Continue reading →
Sceaux Gardens, Camberwell: ‘a Masterpiece of Good Planning’
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/sceaux-gardens-camberwell-a-masterpiece-of-good-planning/
Published: March 4, 2025 07:30
In 1959, the South London Observer declared that ‘Camberwell must rank No. 1 in London housing progress at the moment’. …Continue reading →
Poplar High Street: a Walk on the Municipal Side
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/14722/
Published: January 7, 2025 07:30
This blog began twelve years ago and it began as a result of a walk in Tower Hamlets where I …Continue reading →
Council Housing in Wigan: Part III, the Post-War Years
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/council-housing-in-wigan-part-iii-the-post-war-years/
Published: December 17, 2024 07:30
Last week’s post looked at interwar Wigan, an era when the borough embarked on a programme of large-scale housing construction …Continue reading →
Council Housing in Wigan: Part II, the Interwar Years and a Reckoning with George Orwell
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/council-housing-in-wigan-part-ii-the-interwar-years-and-a-reckoning-with-george-orwell/
Published: December 10, 2024 07:30
Last week, we left Wigan, in the closing months of the First World War, anticipating peace and the desperately needed …Continue reading →
Council Housing in Wigan: Part I to 1918
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/council-housing-in-wigan-part-i-to-1918/
Published: December 3, 2024 08:08
We all know a bit about Wigan, don’t we? You can blame George Orwell for that; many in Wigan do. …Continue reading →
Grahame Park, Barnet, Part II: Back to the Future
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/grahame-park-barnet-part-ii/
Published: October 22, 2024 06:30
We left Grahame Park last week, newly completed in the 1970s and very much – in good ways and bad …Continue reading →
Grahame Park, Barnet, Part I: ‘From Operational Aerodrome to Housing for the People’
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/grahame-park-barnet-part-i/
Published: October 15, 2024 06:30
Mass housing presents the architect with perhaps the most important and the most difficult of all design problems. The Architects’ …Continue reading →
Kate Macintosh talks to Thaddeus Zupančič, Part Two
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/kate-macintosh-interview-part-two/
Published: October 1, 2024 06:30
Last week and this, I’m very pleased to feature this interview between my good friend Thaddeus Zupančič and the esteemed …Continue reading →