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Conservative governments and the new town housing question in the 1950s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2001

Alan G. V. Simmonds
Alan G. V. Simmonds
Affiliation:
Dept of History, University of Hull, HU6 7RX
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Abstract

During the 1950s the Conservative Government initiated a policy of private housing in new towns in order to temper the financial burdens of the programme and encourage local electoral support for the party. This enquiry, by focusing on Crawley New Town, argues that the policy succeeded in exposing the contradictions of post-war new town philosophy whilst reflecting the wider economic and social changes that had begun to unfold in Britain by the late 1950s.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , May 2001 , pp. 65 - 83
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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