Estates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23583199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Wallace (0000-0002-6580-6641, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118430873.est0644 |
| OpenAlex | W4232694373 |
| ISBN | 9781118430873 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The word “estates,” in a British housing context, tends to refer to concentrations of public housing built during the twentieth century. Seen as a vital pillar of collective welfare provision in the United Kingdom, what is popularly known as “council” housing was originally built and managed by local municipalities to house citizens and families in cities that were without adequate and affordable housing stock. Post‐1945, mass council housing, often clustered within “council estates,” became a dominant part of the British housing landscape and by 1979 approximately 40 percent of the British population lived in a council house. However, while council housing estates are often celebrated by left‐inclined scholars and politicians as cementing a form of class solidarity and for helping decommodify shelter, from the 1970s council estates have been systematically dismantled. Although recent struggles suggest council housing could be regaining its social and political currency, it remains a residualized and largely stigmatized tenure.
Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Pillar · Political science · Politics · Population · Public housing · Sociology · Solidarity · Demography · Engineering · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |