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Access to Eden - An Essay on Arts & Crafts Values, Garden City Ideals, and the 'Wheatley' Housing Act of 1924 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Access to Eden - An Essay on Arts & Crafts Values, Garden City Ideals, and the 'Wheatley' Housing Act of 1924 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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In Access to Eden, John Astley explores the influences that shaped
the original public sector housing ideals in Britain. The essay
surveys the cultural and legislative strands in a narrative that
reveals the origins of public sector housing with company housing
(such as Port Sunlight), the Arts and Crafts movement, with
architects such as Baillie Scott, the Garden City pioneer Ebenezer
Howard, and urban planners such as Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker.
In light of these background perspectives, the author considers (in
the the aftermath of the 1914-18 War) the impact of the Housing
Acts of the 1920s that empowered local authorities of the day to
take action on the housing front with a mission to build Homes for
Heroes . As a case study, the John Astley selects the Merry Oak
housing development in Bitterne, Southampton, to examine the
practical outcome of the innovative legislation that had been
established, and in particular by the 1924 Housing Act of John
Wheatley. The author concludes his essay with a brief look at
public sector housing in the present era, and finds a landscape of
lost opportunities and a failure to learn from the hard-won lessons
of the past. Public sector housing, the author finds, now seems to
be seen as social housing as a system of distributed Welfare . . .
Is it really too late, though, for local government to regain the
moral high ground and deliver quality public sector housing? After
reading Access to Eden, you will not be able to look at a house -
any house - in quite the same way again. JOHN ASTLEY is a
sociologist, lecturer, and writer - and a frequent contributor to
journals, conferences, and radio talks. As a sociologist of
culture, he is the author of three volumes of collected essays:
Liberation and Domestication, Culture and Creativity, and
Professionalism and Practice - as well as his well-known monograph
on The Beatles phenomenon from a cultural studies perspective Why
Don t We Do It in the Road? In recent years, his essay Herbivores
an Carnivores (2008) looked at the struggle for democratic values
in post-War Britain. In 2010, the first edition of Access to Eden
appeared as an examination of the rise and fall of public sector
housing ideals in Britain. After many years living and working in
Oxford, John Astley is now based in Devon.
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