Mass Housing - Modern Architecture and State Power - a Global History

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2021 (The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)"It will become the standard work on the subject." Literary ReviewThis major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism-s most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide `homes for the people-. Vast programmes of mass housing - high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the modernist style - became a truly global phenomenon, leaving a legacy which has suffered waves of disillusionment in the West but which is now seeing a dramatic, 21st-century renaissance in the booming, crowded cities of East Asia. Providing a global approach to the history of Modernist mass-housing production, this authoritative study combines architectural history with the broader social, political, cultural aspects of mass housing - particularly the `mass- politics of power and state-building throughout the 20th century. Exploring t