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London's Aylesbury Estate - An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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London's Aylesbury Estate - An Oral History of the 'Concrete Jungle' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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This book looks beyond the Aylesbury's public face by examining its
rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based
largely on the oral testimony and memoir of residents and former
residents, youth and community workers, borough Councillors,
officials, police officers and architects. What emerges is not a
simple story of definitive failures, but one of texture and
complexity, struggle and accord, family and friends, and of rapidly
changing circumstances. The study spans the years 1967 to 2010 -
from the estate's ambitious inception until the first of its blocks
were pulled down. It is a period rarely dealt with by historians of
council housing, who have typically confined themselves to the
years before or after the 1979 watershed. As such, it demonstrates
how shifts in housing policy, and broader political, economic and
social developments, came to bear on a working-class community -
for good and, more especially, for ill.
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