Reconstructing Public Housing : : Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2020. Ã2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Introducing Collective Housing Alternatives
- Why Collective Housing Alternatives?
- Articulating Our Housing Commons
- Bringing the State Back In
- 2. Why Liverpool of All Places?
- A City of Radicals and Reformists
- A City on (the) Edge?
- A City Playing the Urban Regeneration Game
- Structure of the Book
- Part II. The Housing Question
- 3. Revisiting the Housing Question
- Nouns and Verbs: On the Nature of Value
- Exploitation and Alienation: On the Contradictions of Capitalism
- Ends and Means: The Point Is to Change It!
- 4. Liverpool's Co-operative Revolution
- Rehabilitating Housing in a SNAP
- You Hold the Pen, We'll Tell You What to Draw!
- Competition: The Counterintuitive Component of Cooperativism
- 5. Liberal Compromises: Diluting the Cooperative Revolution?
- You Can Have Any House You Like So Long as It's a New-Build Co-op
- Utalitarianism (Utilitarian plus Totalitarian): On Form Following Function
- Contradictions of Choice: Defensive Urbanism or (Extra)Ordinary Sub-urbanism?
- 6. Municipalisation: A Militant Response to the Housing Question
- A Tory-Liberal Plot: The Gravedigger of Municipal Housing?
- Defensible Principles and (Policy) Design Disadvantagement
- Keeping the Cooperative Spirit Alive: The Movement Migrates to Knowsley
- Part III. The Neighbourhood Question
- 7. Locating the Neighbourhood Question
- Liverpool's Second Blitz
- How to Make Water Flow Uphill
- Can Collective Housing Save the City?
- 8. The Eldonians: From Parish Politics to Global Exemplar
- Militant Tactics, Boss Politics, Tribal Loyalties, Friends in High Places
- We Do It Better Together: Towards a Self-Regenerating Community
- Eldonia: An Independent Micro-State?.
- 9. Cooperative by Name If Not by Nature
- Singing the Post-Development Blues: On Revolutionaries Retiring
- Third Sector Empire-Building
- The Story So Far: How Self-Regenerating, Really?
- Part IV. The Urban Question
- 10. Grappling with the Urban Question
- Weapons Wielded against Enclosure of the Commons
- Grounding Capitalism in the Land Question
- Housing Market Renewal, Neo-Haussmannisation and the New Urban Enclosures
- 11. Growing Granby from the Grassroots: A (Plant) Potted History
- Living through Hell: On the Violence of Managed Decline
- Putting the T into CLT
- Finishing the Work that SNAP Started
- From Success to Failure: A Great British Property Scandal
- 12. Technocratic Experiment or Experimental Utopia?
- Dereliction-by-Design and Transatlantic Knowledge Transfer
- Homebaked: Brick by Brick, Loaf by Loaf, We Build Ourselves
- Seeing Liverpool's Housing History through a Bifocal Verb-Noun Lens
- Part V. Conclusion
- 13. Reconstructing Public Housing (History)
- In, Against and Beyond Public Housing
- How to Answer the Housing, Neighbourhood and Urban Questions?
- Using the Master's Tools to Dismantle the Master's House
- 14. On (Myth) Making History
- From Heroic Event to Boring Bureaucratic Process
- The Myth of Liverpool Exceptionalism
- Recipes for Revolution: From Cultivating Local Delicacies to Sourcing Essential Ingredients
- 15. Building a Bureaucracy from Below
- Dormant, Not Defunct: Self-Funding the Next Co-Op Spring
- Realising Municipal Dreams
- Recoding the DNA of Collective Alternatives
- Epilogue: Translating Between Inward, Upward and Outward Languages
- Artificial Hells, Social Practice and Artistic Spectacle: Who (or What) Is All This For?
- Bibliography
- Index.