Hovels to High Rise

<p>Originally published in 1993 this book traces how governments in France Germany Britain Denmark and Ireland became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise high-density concrete estates. As the book considers each country’s housing history and traditions and analyses the contrasting structures and systems it finds convergence of problems in the growing tensions of their most disadvantaged communities. The book underlines the continuing drift towards deeper polarization an issue which has become ever more important in the multi-lingual ethnically diverse urban societies of the 21st Century. The book’s detailed coverage of the historical political and social changes relating to housing within the various countries make it an important text for students and practitioners concerned with housing urban affairs social policy and administration. </p>