VICTORIAN HOMES
Written by David Rubinstein
Published by David & Charles
in 1974
ISBN: 071536765X
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- HISTORY (VICTORIAN)
- SOCIAL HISTORY
- HOMES AND HOUSING
VICTORIAN HOMES
Written by David Rubinstein.
Stock no. 2135657
1st.
1974.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The homes of all social classes both inside and out, in towns and countryside. ISBN: 071536765X. Bumping to spine. Stains to some page edges and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.
Front cover
Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: THE HOMES OF THE MIDDLE AND UPPER CLASSES
- The Growth of Towns and Middle-class Housing Problems
- The Fact of Expansion
- Town or Suburb?
- In the Hands of he Jerry-Builder
- Flats
- Great Houses
- The Cult of the Picturesque
- Descriptions
- Plan
- Comfort
- Discomfort
- Architecture, Design and Ornament
- House Size and Income
- New Materials
- Gothic Style
- 'Queen Anne' Style
- Voysey and the 1890's
- Theories of Design
- Adornment
- Description of Design
- Sanitation and Water Supply
- Heat and Light
- Early Versions of Central Heating
- Open or Closed Stoves?
- English or American Heating?
- Gas Stoves
- Problems of Gas Lighting
- Electric Light
- PART TWO: THE HOMES OF THE WORKING CLASSES
- The Urban Poor: Description
- The Sanitary Period
- The Middle Period
- The 'Bitter Cry' and the Aftermath
- The Late Period
- Demolition
- Discussion: The Causes of Urban Slums
- The Law and its Administrators
- The Jerry-Builder Again
- High Rents
- Public Indifference
- The Systems
- The Government and Local Authorities: Discussion and Achievement
- Private Initiative versus Public Enterprise
- The Nature of the Achievement
- Prosperity among the Working Classes
- Comfort
- Home-ownership
- The Homes of Rural Labourers
- Description
- Discussion
- Philanthropy
- The Aims of Philanthropy
- Philanthropic Buildings: Principles and Designs
- Success or Failure?
- Model Villatges and Garden Cities
- Employers Villages
- Garden Cities