Friends in high places
Government-industry relations in public sector house-building during Britain’s tower block era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8418932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Scott (0000-0003-1230-9040, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 545-565 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00076791.2018.1452913 |
| OpenAlex | W2796274312 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 6 |
Britain’s high-rise public housing era is widely seen as a serious social policy mistake. We show that the problems associated with this housing format were known to policy makers at an early stage, while tower blocks were also substantially more expensive, both from the perspective of central, and local, government. Conservatives governments championed high-rise mainly owing to the political advantages of urban containment. Major building contractors then used their close links with (central and local) policy-makers to aggressively lobby for high-rise ʽsystem building,’ as their expertise in this field enabled them to dominate the sector and exclude local competitors
Civil engineering · Competitor analysis · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Local government · Management · Mistake · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public housing · Public policy · Public sector · Tower · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |