Format:
1 Online-Ressource (407 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781351175128
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Urban History v.2
Content:
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author's Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Fertile Ground -- Railway Suburbs -- A Surfeit of Transport -- The New Suburban Man -- Meeting the Demand -- 2 Suburbia 1900-14 -- Future Respectability Assured -- The Edwardian Fringe -- Costs of Suburban Living -- The Edwardian Villa -- Maid, Piano and Park -- The Electric Palace -- 3 Council Cottages 1900-14 -- A Duty, but not an Obligation -- Totterdown-on-Tram-way -- Bricks of Clay at Norbury -- Tennis at Tottenham -- 4 Case Studies 1900-14 Ilford and Golders Green -- Land of Griggs and Corbett -- Propriety by Easy Purchase -- Flood, Flies and Mud -- Providing the Arteries -- Quite in the Country -- An Entirely Fresh District -- Gold in the Green -- A Continuous Hammering -- Living Together in the Garden Suburb -- Colonisers of Golders Green -- Transport Facilities Built Up -- Completing the Suburb -- 5 Some Homes for Heroes 1919-25 -- 'What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in' -- Houses by Act of Parliament -- Private Houses - at a Price -- More Legislation -- 6 Speculators' Suburbia 1923-39 -- Private Building in Earnest -- No Depression for the Builders -- The Providers -- A Formless Suburbia -- Middlesex Swamped -- Along the Electric Rails of Surrey -- Essex, Kent and the Rest -- 7 Building Estates 1920-39 -- Methods of Development -- Drains, Gas and Water -- Roads, Made and Unmade -- Constraints -- Defects in Estate Design -- Much in a Name -- Suburban Shops -- 8 Homes for the Mortgaged: The Suburban House and Garden 1920-39 -- Semis and Others -- Architects Are We All -- Modernism Spurned -- Insecure Foundations -- Coke Walls and Cathedral Windows -- Behind the Front Door -- The Hallowed Plot -- A House for the Car -- Caveat Emptor
Content:
9 Council Cottages 1920-39 -- One Fifth for the Lowly -- The LCC: Problems and Achievement -- Other Councils' Housing -- 10 Life in the Ned-Georgian Suburbs -- London Suburban Man -- Snobbery and Status -- Health in the Suburbs -- Seasoned Travellers -- At Home for Admiration -- Suburban Screens -- Superhet and Two-penny Library -- Outdoors in Suburbia -- Behind Suburban Curtains -- 11 Suburban Money 1925-39 -- From Loan to Profit -- Causes of Disaster -- Price and Choice -- Each to His Means -- Mortgage Rates -- Cash Down? No Worr -- The Borders Case -- 12 Selling The Suburb -- Nightingales and Baronial Halls -- By Car, Train and Steamer to the Show House -- Boxers, Maharajahs and Free Refrigerators -- 13 Transport for the Suburbs -- Run the trains and They Will Come -- Suburban Tram and Bus -- Builders' Buses -- Cheapest by Tram -- The Magic Half-Mil -- Metro-land -- Encouraging the Railways -- An Electric Suburbia -- New Railways for the Northern Suburbs -- A few Jewels in the Dross -- 14 Neo-Georgian Case Studies: (I) Edgware, the Underground Suburb -- The Beginnings of a Suburb -- A Pioneer Rewarded -- By Tube to the Best Sites -- Disappointments -- Signs of Progres -- A New Hope -- From Parish to Borough -- Services and Amenities Follow Behind -- Getting Together -- The Arrival of the fews -- Edgware at the end of the Thirties -- 15 Neo-Georgian Case Studies: (2) Southern Electric Stoneleigh -- A Sort of Fourth Estate -- Speculation Electrified -- Stoneleigh Park -- Stoneleigh Hill and Ewell Court -- Creating a Centre -- Church and School -- Organising the Residents -- The Battle with Waterloo -- Intention and Reality -- 16 Ned-Georgian Case Studies: (3) The lcc Cottage estates -- Becontree: A Town without Work or Transport -- Bellingham: or Starving Stations Succoured -- Concrete Castelnau -- Downham: the Tramway Estate
Content:
Roehampton, or Vicissitudes Bring Variety -- Watling: the Underground Estate -- Wormholt: on the Dust of the White City -- St Helier: the LCC Invades Suburban Surrey -- A Second Wind -- 17 Hitler Stops the Sprawl -- Security for £25 -- Restraining London's Growth -- Epilogue: or Planning Unplanned -- Appendix -- I Greater London Population 1901-39 -- 2 Suburban Electric Tramway Development 1901-32 -- 3 Suburban Motorbus Route Development 1910-39 -- 4 New Suburban Railway Facilities 1901-40 -- 5 Co-partnership Housing Estates -- 6 Specifications and Plans of London Suburban Houses -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
9780815386698
Additional Edition:
Print version Jackson, Alan A Semi-Detached London : Suburban Development, Life and Transport, 1900-39 Milton : Taylor and Francis,c2018 9780815386698
Language:
English
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