Prefabs: The history of the UK Temporary Housing Programme (Planning, History and Environment Series) - Hardcover

Vale, Brenda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0419188002 ISBN 13: 9780419188001

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

The book looks at the emergence of the prefab as a unique housing form. It examines the reasons prefabs have survived way beyond their design life of fifteen years, when other post-war housing types have been demolished. There is no other single text that sets the temporary housing programme in context.

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Review

'...the text provides valuable new detail about the decision-making, logistics and social significance of this project. It also gives food for thought about the wider significance of this experiment in prefabricated housing.' - Built Environment

'Brenda Vale is to be congratulated on selecting a topic that invites original analysis, and on searching the archives thoroughly. She is especially helpful in explaining the architectural and technical aspects of prefabs. The book is clearly written...' - Planning Perspectives

'The book is meticulously researched, and provides detailed insights into the political debate at the time, and criticisms from the professional press. It is an enthralling story at the very heart of the New Jerusalem that politicians and ambitious professionals, filled with postwar idealism, wished to create.' - Journal of Architectural Conservation

'The volume is well referenced and illustrated...from contemporary sources' - Urban Studies

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0419188002
• ISBN 13: 9780419188001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200