Foreword
OWEN HATHERLEY
Every Londoner has their own particular housing history, and it’s probably a complex one. Unless you’re one of the lucky people at either the top, with a house owned outright, or at the bottom, with one of the increasingly stringently means-tested council flats, you’ve probably been transient, moved from place to place, from flat to flat; in many cases, you’ll have moved further and further out from Zones 1 and 2 with every year, and not because of a preference for the outer parts of London. A lot of Londoners will have managed to live in many of the typologies discussed in this book – Victorian speculative houses, Peabody charitable tenements, Arts and Crafts semis, post-war council maisonettes whether architect-designed ...
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