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The Making of the Modern British Home - The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars (Hardcover)
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The Making of the Modern British Home - The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars (Hardcover)
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The Making of the Modern British Home explores the impact of the
modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during
the 1920s and 1930s - focusing primarily on working-class
households who moved from cramped inner-urban accommodation to new
suburban council or owner-occupied housing estates. Migration to
suburbia is shown to have initiated a dramatic transformation in
lifestyles - from a `traditional' working-class mode of living,
based around long-established tightly-knit urban communities, to a
recognisably `modern' mode, centred around the home, the nuclear
family, and building a better future for the next generation. This
process had far-reaching impacts on family life, entailing a change
in household priorities to meet the higher costs of suburban
living, which in turn impacted on many aspects of household
behaviour, including family size. This volume also constitutes a
general history of the development of both owner-occupied and
municipal suburban housing estates in interwar Britain, including
the evolution of housing policy; the housing development process;
housing and estate design, lay-outs, and architectural features;
marketing owner-occupation and consumer durables to a mass market;
furnishing the new suburban home; making ends meet; suburban
gardens; social filtering and conflict on the new estates; and
problems of 'mis-selling' and 'Jerry building'. Peter Scott
integrates the social history of the interwar suburbs with their
economic, business, marketing, and architectural/planning
histories, demonstrating how these elements interacted to produce a
new model of working-class lifestyles and 'respectability' which
marked a fundamental break with pre-1914 working-class urban
communities.
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