Prefabs: A History of the UK Temporary Housing Programme (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Vale, Brenda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032226145 ISBN 13: 9781032226149

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Originally published in 1995, this book unravels the history of the ‘temporary bungalow’ and shows that perhaps it was more a question of providing a new peace-time product for factories than a means of providing accommodation for the homeless. Built in a period of housing history which remains fascinating for architects and planners and admired by some of their first occupants but berated by others, those prefabs remaining today are subject to preservation orders but also perhaps offer a solution to the ongoing housing crisis in the UK. The book includes chapters on the development of the prefab house in the UK; comparisons with temporary housing programmes in the USA, Sweden and Germany; political and economic considerations to the UK Temporary Housing Programme and a discussion of the design of the Arcon, Uni-Seco, Tarran and Aluminium Temporary Bungalows.

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Brenda Vale

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032226145
• ISBN 13: 9781032226149
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198