Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives - Couverture souple

Thompson, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789621089 ISBN 13 : 9781789621082

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Reconstructing Public Housing unearths Liverpool's hidden history of radical alternatives to municipal housing development and builds a vision of how we might reconstruct public housing on more democratic and cooperative foundations. In this critical social history, Matthew Thompson brings to light how and why this remarkable city became host to two pioneering social movements in collective housing and urban regeneration experimentation. In the 1970s, Liverpool produced one of Britain's largest, most democratic and socially innovative housing co-op movements, including the country's first new-build co-op to be designed, developed and owned by its member-residents. Four decades later, in some of the very same neighbourhoods, several campaigns for urban community land trusts are growing from the grassroots - including the first ever architectural or housing project to be nominated for and win, in 2015, the artworld's coveted Turner Prize. Thompson traces the connections between these movements; how they were shaped by, and in turn transformed, the politics, economics, culture and urbanism of Liverpool. Drawing on theories of capitalism and cooperativism, property and commons, institutional change and urban transformation, Thompson reconsiders Engels' housing question, reflecting on how collective alternatives work in, against and beyond the state and capital, in often surprising and contradictory ways.

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À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Thompson, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789621089
• ISBN 13: 9781789621082
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
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