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1st ed.

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020

1 online resource (408 pages)

ISBN 9781789627404 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781789621082

Print version: Thompson, Matthew Reconstructing Public Housing Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2020 ISBN 9781789621082

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introducing Collective Housing Alternatives -- Why Collective Housing Alternatives? -- Articulating Our Housing Commons -- Bringing the State Back In -- 2. Why Liverpool of All Places? -- A City of Radicals and Reformists -- A City on (the) Edge? -- A City Playing the Urban Regeneration Game -- Structure of the Book -- Part II. The Housing Question -- 3. Revisiting the Housing Question -- Nouns and Verbs: On the Nature of Value -- Exploitation and Alienation: On the Contradictions of Capitalism -- Ends and Means: The Point Is to Change It! -- 4. Liverpool’s Co-operative Revolution -- Rehabilitating Housing in a SNAP -- You Hold the Pen, We’ll Tell You What to Draw! -- Competition: The Counterintuitive Component of Cooperativism -- 5. Liberal Compromises: Diluting the Cooperative Revolution? -- You Can Have Any House You Like So Long as It’s a New-Build Co-op -- Utalitarianism (Utilitarian plus Totalitarian): On Form Following Function -- Contradictions of Choice: Defensive Urbanism or (Extra)Ordinary Sub-urbanism? -- 6. Municipalisation: A Militant Response to the Housing Question -- A Tory-Liberal Plot: The Gravedigger of Municipal Housing? -- Defensible Principles and (Policy) Design Disadvantagement -- Keeping the Cooperative Spirit Alive: The Movement Migrates to Knowsley -- Part III. The Neighbourhood Question -- 7. Locating the Neighbourhood Question -- Liverpool’s Second Blitz -- How to Make Water Flow Uphill -- Can Collective Housing Save the City? -- 8. The Eldonians: From Parish Politics to Global Exemplar -- Militant Tactics, Boss Politics, Tribal Loyalties, Friends in High Places -- We Do It Better Together: Towards a Self-Regenerating Community -- Eldonia: An Independent Micro-State?.

9. Cooperative by Name If Not by Nature -- Singing the Post-Development Blues: On Revolutionaries Retiring -- Third Sector Empire-Building -- The Story So Far: How Self-Regenerating, Really? -- Part IV. The Urban Question -- 10. Grappling with the Urban Question -- Weapons Wielded against Enclosure of the Commons -- Grounding Capitalism in the Land Question -- Housing Market Renewal, Neo-Haussmannisation and the New Urban Enclosures -- 11. Growing Granby from the Grassroots: A (Plant) Potted History -- Living through Hell: On the Violence of Managed Decline -- Putting the T into CLT -- Finishing the Work that SNAP Started -- From Success to Failure: A Great British Property Scandal -- 12. Technocratic Experiment or Experimental Utopia? -- Dereliction-by-Design and Transatlantic Knowledge Transfer -- Homebaked: Brick by Brick, Loaf by Loaf, We Build Ourselves -- Seeing Liverpool’s Housing History through a Bifocal Verb-Noun Lens -- Part V. Conclusion -- 13. Reconstructing Public Housing (History) -- In, Against and Beyond Public Housing -- How to Answer the Housing, Neighbourhood and Urban Questions? -- Using the Master’s Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House -- 14. On (Myth) Making History -- From Heroic Event to Boring Bureaucratic Process -- The Myth of Liverpool Exceptionalism -- Recipes for Revolution: From Cultivating Local Delicacies to Sourcing Essential Ingredients -- 15. Building a Bureaucracy from Below -- Dormant, Not Defunct: Self-Funding the Next Co-Op Spring -- Realising Municipal Dreams -- Recoding the DNA of Collective Alternatives -- Epilogue: Translating Between Inward, Upward and Outward Languages -- Artificial Hells, Social Practice and Artistic Spectacle: Who (or What) Is All This For? -- Bibliography -- Index.

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