The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany and France, 1840–1914

by Nicholas Bullock , James Read

• ISBN13: 9780521133838
• ISBN10: 0521133831
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book was originally published in 1985. During the 1920s and 1930s, a series of housing developments was built in Europe, based on unprecedented levels of public finance allied to innovative policies of planning, and architectural design. How did these developments, which were the foundation of later social housing programmes, come into being? This study sets out to answer the question by looking into the evolution of the movement for housing reform in Germany and France, from the middle of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the First World War. This book also examines the social and political nature of 'the housing problem', and traces the response through a series of central themes: the public health campaign; land reform and planning proposals; the elaboration of architectural types; and the search for fresh means of financing the construction of cheap housing.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany 1840-1914

Recognition of the Housing Problem:

The emergence of the Housing Problem 1840-1857

The first debate on the Housing Problem 1857-1872

Boom, depression and the second debate on the Housing Problem 1872-1886

Section 2

The reformers' ideal

Public health and housing reform

The design of working-class housing

Housing reform and the Land Question

Reform and the Provision of New Housing:

Housing by private enterprise

Housing by the employer

Non-profit housing before 1890

Non-profit housing after 1890

The campaign for national housing legislation 1886-1914

The Movement for Housing Reform in France 1840-1914

Recognition of the Housing Problem:

The context of the Housing Problem

The housing market: Paris

The Programme for Reform:

the reformers' ideal

Social reform

Housing and hygiene

Housing and urban growth

Architectural reform

Reform and the Provisions of New Housing:

The reformers and the housing market

Housing for industry

Housing societies

Housing and co-operation

The Société Française des Habitations à Bon Marché and housing legislation

The evolution of housing legislation 1: 'free action is superior and sufficient'

The evolution of housing legislation 2: 'unbiased rivalry'

Conclusion to Parts 1 and 2: from workers' housing to social housing

Abbreviations used for periodicals

Notes

Bibliography

Sources of illustrations

Chronology: England, Germany and France

Index

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