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Riots in autumn 1991 attracted the world’s attention to the problem of urban estates like Meadowell. Nevertheless, despite tremendous odds, more and more residents are determined to transform their estate...
Shows how pre-cast concrete has been widely used in the UK in many housing types, from two-storey to high-rise. Notes the difference between precast reinforced concrete (PRC) and large panel system (LPS)...
Critically reviews the history of government intervention in the housing sector over the previous 30 years. Exposes the misconceptions behind these interventions and the negative impact they have had on the...
Shows how landlord and tenants can work together to improve heating in rented flats in an energy-efficient way. Describes a three-year project on a large local authority housing estate in Birmingham which...
Discusses the way in which contemporary housing layouts are prepared both in terms of the design of individual houses and of site arrangements of buildings, access roads and external spaces. It does so by...
CITY WATCH is a series of six films about Birmingham’s Environmental Services Department. Each film follows an individual or a group of environmental health officers and other officials on a ‘typical’...
About the people of the Bullring, a 1930s municipal tenement block in the Brownlow Hill area of Liverpool. They are campaigning to be allowed to remain, because they value their community life more than the...
Concerns the ownership and management of high-rise blocks of flats with information on the setting up of equity share, co-op management and community leasehold schemes.
Focuses on short-life housing - what it means, the condition of the property, the effects of living in secure accommodation and the need for ‘move on’ housing. Examines the situation in Camden as typical...
Three case studies filmed in Vancouver, Cracow, and Birmingham. The theme of the programme is housing. In Cracow it looks at the problems of providing accommodation for the huge expansion in the urban...
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