An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. Reconstructing
Public Housing unearths Liverpool's hidden history of radical
alternatives to municipal housing development and builds a vision
of how we might reconstruct public housing on more democratic and
cooperative foundations. In this critical urban history, Matthew
Thompson brings to light how and why this remarkable city became
host to two pioneering social movements in collective housing and
urban regeneration experimentation. In the 1970s, Liverpool
produced one of Britain's largest, most democratic and socially
innovative housing co-op movements, including the country's first
new-build co-op to be designed, developed and owned by its
member-residents. Four decades later, in some of the very same
neighbourhoods, several campaigns for urban community land trusts
are growing from the grassroots - including the first ever
architectural or housing project to be nominated for and win, in
2015, the artworld's coveted Turner Prize. Thompson traces the
connections between these movements; how they were shaped by, and
in turn transformed, the politics, economics, culture and urbanism
of Liverpool. Drawing on theories of capitalism and cooperativism,
property and the commons, institutional change and urban
transformation, Thompson reconsiders Engels' housing question,
reflecting on how collective alternatives work in, against and
beyond the state and capital, in often surprising and contradictory
ways.
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