Front cover image for Estates : an intimate history

Estates : an intimate history

Britain's council estates have become a media shorthand for poverty, social mayhem, drugs, drink and violence - the social ills they were built to cure. This work focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates.
Print Book, English, 2007
Granta, London, 2007
244 s. : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781862079090, 1862079099
475992098