Prefabs: The history of the UK Temporary Housing Programme (Planning, History and Environment Series)
by Brenda Vale
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Robert and Brenda Vale are Professorial Research Fellows in the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. They share common research interests in ecological footprinting and sustainable building design, and are both currently working on the new Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) project to deliver show more ecological footprinting and systems approaches to sustainable development of communities. show less
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- Home & Garden, Nonfiction, Art & Design, History
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- 643.2 — Applied science & technology Home economics & family management Housing and household equipment Special-purpose housing and special kinds of housing; houseboats
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- TH4819 .P7 .V35 — Technology Building construction Building construction Buildings: Construction with reference to use
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