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Militant Modernism

From Building Design Online: A Modern Way to Think About the Modernists.
Class and politics are inextricably bound up with how a modernist building is perceived. There is a general conviction that the working class were slotted into a world of concrete walkways and towers when all we ever wanted was the old back-to-backs, with perhaps [...]

Garden Cities and More

London School of Economics Social Policy pamphlet collection on housing:
The pamphlet collection at the Library contains items on different aspects of housing including housing conditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries, housing policy and finance, the garden cities, urban reconstruction after the two World Wars, city and town planning and rent protest movements.
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