Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing RIBA Contract Administration and control of time

and control of time

Set them aside

Short Code: SubSub/2016

Publication Date: April 2023

unashamedly partisan and often enjoyably tart' - Sunday Telegraph

Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing RIBA Contract Administration and control of timeTraversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing in Britain. John Broughton asks us to understand better their complex story and to rethink our prejudices. His accounts include extraordinary planners and architects who wished to elevate working men and women through design and the politicians, high and low,