The Heygate
Community Life in an Inner-City Estate, 1974-2011
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4493920 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Michael Romyn (Birkbeck, University of London, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2016 |
| Volumen | 81 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 197-230 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbw013 |
| OpenAlex | W2344876179 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 4 |
| Referencias citadas | 2 |
As a young girl growing up in South London in the 1960s, on the doorstep of the Elephant and Castle junction, Freda Nixon saw her world transformed. In a bold and ambitious piece of post-war reconstruction, this ruinous landscape of bombsites, remnants, and late-Victorian tenements was remade in the Modernist architectural aesthetic of exposed concrete and glass. All around her emerged towering office blocks, a purpose-built shopping centre and various municipal superstructures. Biggest of all was the Heygate estate, a prefabricated concrete construction assembled mere yards from her family home on the nearby Rockingham estate. In 1979, after petitioning Southwark Council for a home of her own, Mrs Nixon, then twenty-three, was handed the keys to a flat on the still-sparkling Heygate. It was a short trip across the New Kent Road, and one she made with an abundance of optimism. ‘Oh it was a posh estate. I don’t know if you can imagine it ... but oh it was beautiful, it was lovely.’ 1
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Estate · Girl · Inner city · Political science · Real estate · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Visual arts · Yard · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citas por año | 0,67 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 4 |