Mobilising Housing Histories

Peter Guillery is an architectural historian and editor for the Survey of London, the topographical series founded in 1894, now part of the Bartlett School of Architecture. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and serves on the committees of the Centre for Metropolitan History and the London Journal.David Kroll is an architect with experience in professional practice, academic teaching and research. He is a lecturer in architecture at the University of South Australia and has held lecturing positions at the University of East London, University of Kent and Anglia Ruskin University.

• Foreword - Owen HatherleyPreface - Andrew SaintIntroduction - Peter Guillery and David KrollChapter 1: Urban Design in Victorian London: TheMinet Estate in Lambeth 1870 to c. 1910 - David KrollChapter 2: Miles of Silly Little Dirty Houses: The Lessons of Victorian Battersea - Colin ThomChapter 3: Renewable Principles in H A Darbishire's Peabody Estates 1864-1885 - Irina DavidoviciChapter 4: ResidentialFlats: Densification in Victorian and Early 20th-Century London - Richard DennisChapter 5: South Acton Unsustained - Peter GuilleryChapter 6: High Social Housing in London c.1940-1970 - Simon PepperChapter 7: ‘We feltmagnificent being up there’: Ernő Goldfinger's Balfron Tower and the campaignto keep it public - David RobertsChapter 8: Out-of-Sync Estates - Ben CampkinChapter 9: Gentrification: The Case of Canonbury - Tanis HinchcliffeChapter 10: Victorian Houses: Recent Approaches to Sustainable Retrofit - Sofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll