Rented Worlds: Bedsits, Boarding Houses and Multiple Occupancy Homes in Post-war London, 1946-1963: Routledge Research in Architecture
Autor Alistair Cartwrighten Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 aug 2026
While the rise of council housing and suburban homeownership have both been thoroughly documented, it was this other kind of housing – declining yet highly contested – that formed the ideological substrate of many key debates about the post-war politics of welfare, ‘race,’ class, and gender. Covering from the end of the Second World War to the end of the first post-war Conservative government, and drawing on a range of untapped archival sources, including rent tribunals, valuation lists, exhibitions, and photography, the book traces a sequence of specific ‘problems’ as they coincided with key moments in post-war British history: from the 1946 squatting movement and the problem of displacement after the Blitz; to the question of social isolation and new policies around mental health; to the chronic issue of overcrowding and a growing fire safety crisis in inner London.
Told through the experience of tenants and proprietors, this new history of post-war London challenges architectural history’s ability to account for the unexpected after-lives of built spaces; spaces that were re-made from the inside out through processes of speculation, regulation, and grassroots spatial practices.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032992570
ISBN-10: 1032992573
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: 84
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Architecture
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032992573
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: 84
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Architecture
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
Introduction. Chapter 1.The World Turned Outside In (Luxury Squats). Chapter 2. Lonely Londoners. Chapter 3. The Hearth and the Inferno. Chapter 4. The Landlord and His Doubles Conclusion.
Notă biografică
Alistair Cartwright is an architectural and cultural historian, and a postdoctoral research fellow at ETH Zurich. He was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Liverpool, School of Architecture, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre and has worked for various built environment charities. He has published widely on topics including the politics of immigration and housing in London, the aesthetics of the ‘un-ideal home,’ subdivision in the private rented sector, and the role of rent tribunals as spaces of resistance. His current research examines post-disaster reconstruction, housing and materials supplies in the cross-currents of decolonisation, focusing on connections between London and the Indian Ocean region.
Recenzii
"In the decades after 1945, private renting was the largest form of housing tenure in London. Yet it has largely disappeared from accounts of postwar inner-city development focused on the rise of council housing and private home ownership. Rented Worlds returns private renting to the heart of the story. Richly researched and engagingly written, the book is attentive to the ways race, class and gender shaped rented worlds and key actors within them, fostering exploitation and loneliness but also mutual aid and resistance. Rented Worlds is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand holistically the powerful, often contradictory forces that shaped the emergent welfare state and transformed postwar inner-city London."
Barbara Penner, Professor in the Architectural Humanities, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
"Falling between architect-designed social housing and individually-owned private property, the ubiquitous rented room – subject of so much British drama and literature from Harold Pinter to Lynne Reid Banks – has received almost no attention until this brilliantly original and necessary study. Razor sharp in its interpretations, Rented Worlds draws on a fascinating range of visuals and sources, from a survey of urban isolation and LCC fire-safety guidance, to coverage of the post WWII mass squatting movement and the West Indian Gazette’s support for immigrant landlords.
While committed to uncovering the policies and financial motivations driving this often inadequate, even dangerous form of accommodation – and the spatialisation of race that pervaded it – this timely book also finds these rented worlds ‘supercharged with possibility.’ Through close engagement with the spatial experiences and practices of their diverse occupants, living side by side, separated only by flimsy partitions, Rented Worlds retrieves the powerful alliances and dynamic acts of belonging and resistance they helped forge."
Katie Lloyd Thomas, Professor of Architectural Theory and History, Newcastle University.
"Rented rooms housed a high proportion of Londoners until the 1970s. They have figured prominently in literary and cinematic representations of the postwar metropolis, but here Alistair Cartwright provides the first in-depth historical analysis of the twilight years of London’s ‘rented world.’ This was a world characterised by perennial housing shortage, bringing recurrent contestation of the use of living space, from the squatter movement of the postwar years onwards. It was a world in which aggregated individuals forced themselves into infinitely malleable spaces, where loneliness – even to the point of suicide – could exist in the midst of overcrowding. It was a world in which accidents waited to happen to the unwary, or simply those heedless of the fire risk posed by outdated wiring or the paraffin heater. It was also, though, a world threatened by its growing notoriety, as the post-war urge to remodel the city – by both slum clearance and commercial redevelopment – bore most heavily on the rental sector, and the private landlord – once accepted as the near-universal provider of a necessary facility – acquired a parasitic and anti-social image, often intensified by racial hostility. In this vital and valuable book Alistair Cartwright captures skilfully the lived experience of the many Londoners in that significant social layer between the property-owners and the council tenants."
John Davis, Emeritus Fellow, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford and author of Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher.
Barbara Penner, Professor in the Architectural Humanities, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
"Falling between architect-designed social housing and individually-owned private property, the ubiquitous rented room – subject of so much British drama and literature from Harold Pinter to Lynne Reid Banks – has received almost no attention until this brilliantly original and necessary study. Razor sharp in its interpretations, Rented Worlds draws on a fascinating range of visuals and sources, from a survey of urban isolation and LCC fire-safety guidance, to coverage of the post WWII mass squatting movement and the West Indian Gazette’s support for immigrant landlords.
While committed to uncovering the policies and financial motivations driving this often inadequate, even dangerous form of accommodation – and the spatialisation of race that pervaded it – this timely book also finds these rented worlds ‘supercharged with possibility.’ Through close engagement with the spatial experiences and practices of their diverse occupants, living side by side, separated only by flimsy partitions, Rented Worlds retrieves the powerful alliances and dynamic acts of belonging and resistance they helped forge."
Katie Lloyd Thomas, Professor of Architectural Theory and History, Newcastle University.
"Rented rooms housed a high proportion of Londoners until the 1970s. They have figured prominently in literary and cinematic representations of the postwar metropolis, but here Alistair Cartwright provides the first in-depth historical analysis of the twilight years of London’s ‘rented world.’ This was a world characterised by perennial housing shortage, bringing recurrent contestation of the use of living space, from the squatter movement of the postwar years onwards. It was a world in which aggregated individuals forced themselves into infinitely malleable spaces, where loneliness – even to the point of suicide – could exist in the midst of overcrowding. It was a world in which accidents waited to happen to the unwary, or simply those heedless of the fire risk posed by outdated wiring or the paraffin heater. It was also, though, a world threatened by its growing notoriety, as the post-war urge to remodel the city – by both slum clearance and commercial redevelopment – bore most heavily on the rental sector, and the private landlord – once accepted as the near-universal provider of a necessary facility – acquired a parasitic and anti-social image, often intensified by racial hostility. In this vital and valuable book Alistair Cartwright captures skilfully the lived experience of the many Londoners in that significant social layer between the property-owners and the council tenants."
John Davis, Emeritus Fellow, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford and author of Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher.
Descriere
Rented Worlds examines the hidden yet ubiquitous world of bedsits, boarding houses, service flats, subdivided terraces and other forms of private rented housing that continued to dominate postwar London, numerically as well as culturally, well into the 1960s.