Workers’/Affordable Housing and the Development of Construction Systems.
Whether motivated by commercial or social forces, the provision of housing for the working/labouring classes has required a balance between providing housing of a satisfactory standard and the cost which, while generating a rent affordable to the people for whom the houses were intended, gave a reas...
| Published in: | Industrial Archaeology Review Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 129 - 147 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2017
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=127699168&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 127699168 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03090728 PK8 jtl: Industrial Archaeology Review issn: 03090728 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2017 vid: 39 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 127699168 10.1080/03090728.2017.1404224 ppf: 129 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 4.1MB tig: atl: Workers’/Affordable Housing and the Development of Construction Systems. aug: au: McGuinness, John su: Housing development Housing market Dwellings House construction Housing policy sug: subj: Housing development Housing market Dwellings House construction Housing policy keyword: concrete houses industrialised building pre-fabrication steel frame system building ab: Whether motivated by commercial or social forces, the provision of housing for the working/labouring classes has required a balance between providing housing of a satisfactory standard and the cost which, while generating a rent affordable to the people for whom the houses were intended, gave a reasonable return on the investment made by the developer. This paper gives an introduction to the history of this branch of the building industry and describes by way of surviving building examples the ways in which the industry sought to reduce costs of both labour and materials. Focusing on the first half of the 20th century, the article discusses surviving examples of affordable construction designs, from the Cheap Cottages Exhibition at Letchworth Garden City in 1905 and the experimental system build housing in the 1920s and 1930s which often used concrete to immediate post-Second World War mass house-building designs. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Industrial Archaeology Review is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Industrial Archaeology Review holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2017 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|