Table of Contents

Section 1 Design: Part A - The Modern Dwelling - Plan, Fittings, Construction - 1 The Search for the New; 2 Inside the Dwelling - Size, Plan, Fittings, Heating; 3 Need and Fit; 4 The Case for Flats and Maisonettes; 5 Mixed Development; 6 Daylight and Densities; 7 Multi-Storey Architecture in the 1950s; 8 Very High Blocks; 9 Services Outside the Flat and Access; 10 New Construction; 11 New Construction and Appearance. Part B - Community Life - A Postwar Architectural Stimulus - 12 A Welfare State Utopia; 13 Town Planning; 14 The Sociology of Community; 15 The Modern Architect in Public Housing; 16 Solving, Architecturally, the Most Difficult of Social Problems; 17 New Socio-Architectural Catchwords; 18 The Smithsons - Association and Communication; 19 Infinite Possibilities of Design in the 1960s. Section II Production: Part A - A Municipal Crusade - Modern Flats and the Defence of Housing Production in Britain; 20 The Land Trap; 21 Central Government, Local Government and Housing Production in 1950s; 22 Quantity or Quality? Defeat of the Designers; 23 Financing and Organising the 1960s Housing Drive; 24 Package Dealers and Negotiators. Part B - Scottish, English and Welsh Housing in the Sixties - 25 Give the People Homes! Scotland's Housing Blitzkrieg; 26 The Curate's Egg; 27 Break-up of an Empire - Reorganization in London. Part C - Northern Irelands Housing Revolution 28 The Pursuit of Parity; 29 The Great Leap Forward. Section III - Breakdown 30 The Rejection of Modern Design; 31 End of the Drive; 32 New Slums'; 33 Conclusion - Utopia on Trial?. Appendix: High Flats in the Channel Islands.