Prefabs : a history of the UK temporary housing programme /
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| Author / Creator: | Vale, Brenda. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 1995. |
| Description: | viii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in history, planning, and the environment 17 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1750553 |
Table of Contents:
- The Prefab and its people
- Introduction
- The Arcon Bungalow
- The Uni-Seco
- The Tarran Bungalow
- The Aluminium temporary Bungalow
- Reactions to the prefab
- Bungalows by the sea The emergence of the Bungalow
- Critics of the Bungalow
- The value of surveys to determine the desires of users
- Government reports on housing
- The public view of post-war housing
- Over there Background
- Housing for the Tennessee Valley Authority
- Housing for US war workers
- The USA Bungalow for the Temporary Housing Programme
- Swedish precedents
- UK precedents for the prefabricated Bungalow
- The house from the factory The ideal of the factory produced house
- Le Corbusier and the mass-produced house
- Gropius and the mass produced house
- The development of the prefabricated house in the UK
- UK designers and 'A Machine for Living In'
- The new Jerusalem Housing needs after World War II
- Parliamentary discussion of post war housing
- The background to the temporary housing programme as discussd in parliament
- Why 'temporary' Bungalows? The first exhibition of the Portal Bungalow
- Criticism of the Portal Prototype
- The costs of the programme Starting up
- Iterventions by the Germans
- Progress of temporary housing programme
- Winding up. Alternative approaches
- The extendable house
- Building homes
- Bibliography
- Index
