Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London A Living Tapestry

This book recounts an ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London, refocusing the scholarly conversation around social housing in the U.K. after the 1980 Housing Act. Rather than examining the long-term consequences of ‘Right to Buy,’ such as shortages in local a...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rosbrook-Thompson, James, Armstrong, Gary (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02367nmm a2200313 u 4500
001 EB001800660
003 EBX01000000000000000974158
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 180405 ||| eng
020 |a 9783319746784 
100 1 |a Rosbrook-Thompson, James 
245 0 0 |a Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b A Living Tapestry  |c by James Rosbrook-Thompson, Gary Armstrong 
250 |a 1st ed. 2018 
260 |a Cham  |b Palgrave Macmillan  |c 2018, 2018 
300 |a IX, 239 p  |b online resource 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction: A Living Tapestry? -- 2. Setting the Scene -- 3. Mixed Occupancy – Mixed Occupations? -- 4. Custodians of (Dis)order: The Pusher, the Publican and the Matriarch -- 5. Rubbing Along: Proximity and Understandings of Difference -- 6. Habitable Space? The Price of Gentrification -- 7. Mater out of Place? Women, Mobility, Livelihood and Power -- 8. Conclusion: The Tapestry Unpicked? 
653 |a Sociology, Urban 
653 |a Ethnology 
653 |a Sociocultural Anthropology 
653 |a Urban Sociology 
700 1 |a Armstrong, Gary  |e [author] 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
490 0 |a Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-3-319-74678-4 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74678-4?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 307.76 
520 |a This book recounts an ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London, refocusing the scholarly conversation around social housing in the U.K. after the 1980 Housing Act. Rather than examining the long-term consequences of ‘Right to Buy,’ such as shortages in local authority stock and neighbourhood gentrification, James Rosbrook-Thompson and Gary Armstrong instead investigate the changes wrought on the social fabric of the individual estate. Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork, the authors explore the estate’s social mix and, more specifically, the consequences of owner-occupiers, council tenants and private renters sharing a cramped inner-city neighbourhood. Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London: A Living Tapestry humanizes the academic conversations around class, race, and gender in social housing through the occupants’ tales of getting by, getting along and getting out.