Architecture and City Living

In this episode we discuss the realities of life in the city through housing provision and community infrastructure in London since the second world war.

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Flame in The Streets (dir. Roy Ward Baker, 1961, based on the play Hot Summer Night by Ted Willis)

Contributors:

John Boughton is a social historian whose book Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing, drawn from his long-running blog Municipal Dreams that charts the history of council estates across the country, was published in 2018. His new book A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates will be published by RIBA Publishing in November.

Alistair Cartwright is an architectural historian and recent postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Mellon centre working on a project titled The Architecture of the Rented World: 1945–65

Angharad Davies is an artist, writer and researcher, and member of critical design practice, public works. Recently she has worked as a researcher for feminist design collective Matrix, and a project manager and builder at Walworth Garden.