tailieunhanh - Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate

However, what marks her out from so many radical intellectuals is that she was able to give concrete expression to her theories. Octavia Hill’s housing work seems increasingly relevant in the 1990s as housing managers struggle to run estates whose | Rediscovered Riches No. 3 Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate Essays and Letters by Octavia Hill Edited by Robert Whelan London First published February 1998 Civitas 1998 All rights reserved ISBN 0-255 36431-8 Bookman 10 point Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Blenheim Industrial Park Newmarket Road Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3TU Contents Page The Authors iv Foreword Debby Ounsted v Acknowledgements vii Editor s Introduction Robert Whelan 1 Essays and Letters by Octavia Hill 1 Cottage Property in London 1866 43 2 Four Years Management of a London Court 1869 51 3 Landlords and Tenants in London 1871 65 4 Selections from Octavia Hill s Letters to Fellow-Workers 1875-1890 81 5 Common Sense and the Dwellings of the Poor 1883 94 6 The Influence of Blocks of Flats on Character 1891 104 7 Municipal Housing for the Poor 1901 111 8 Advice to Fellow-Workers in Edinburgh 1902 114 9 Housing Difficulties Management versus Re-construction 1904 122 Notes .