Thesis

Post World War II housing design and development in Great Britain

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  • University of Strathclyde
Date of award
  • 1979
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  • T3661
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Abstract
  • The thesis is a review of housing design and development in the thirty years period 1945-1975, with particular reference to housing standards (of space, fittings, and equipment) and the types and internal planning of urban dwellings of both public and private sectors in Great Britain. Part one of the thesis looks at public sector housing in England and Wales and very briefly in Scotland. It starts by looking at the Historical background from the Industrial Revolution to World War-II, with particular emphasis being placed on the inter-war period 1918-1939. The chapters following discuss in chronological order the three post-war decades viz: 1945-1955, 1955-1965 and 1965- 1975. Each one looks very briefly at the ’spirit of the times’ of the decade concerned and discusses all the major reports on housing. Then it examines in detail the development of housing standards as well as the development of the dwellings' plans themselves as given in sample plans in various official housing manuals and reports. Special 'factors’, such as the rise and fall in the popularity of high-rise housing, industrialised housing and dimensional co-ordination, the consortia movement and so on are dealt with at the appropriate points. Part one concludes with a summing up of the various factors that have influenced the development of housing design, followed by a brief examination of the historical background as well as the types of dwellings and the standards of Scottish Housing since 1945. Part two of the thesis looks at the developments in the private sector on similar lines to Part one.
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  • Johnson, James H.
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