Model Estate (Routledge Revivals): Planned Housing at Quarry Hill, Leeds - Routledge Revivals - Alison Ravetz - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9780415855921 - May 3, 2013
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Alison Ravetz
Model Estate (Routledge Revivals): Planned Housing at Quarry Hill, Leeds - Routledge Revivals 1st edition

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Quarry Hill Flats, once both the pride and shame of its city of Leeds, was an iconic Modernist symbol of the 1930s. It marked the first use of a prefabricated building system for a large-scale council estate, replacing a notorious slum. But it lasted barely a generation - its complete demolition was announced as Alison Ravetz was finishing this study. First published in 1974, this book is unique in its use of all estate records from conception to destruction, as well as in its comprehensive approach, including aspects usually missing in council housing studies - notably the intimate experience of residents, and a fraught, long-drawn-out building period. Ravetz argues that the Flats' 'failure' was due not to social breakdown, as repeatedly alleged, but rather to a rigidity of design and management unable to accommodate gradual, incremental change. This has continuing implications for the operation of bureaucratically designed and controlled 'social housing' today.

252 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released May 3, 2013
ISBN13 9780415855921
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 266
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   630 g
Language English  

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