The housing estate: novel solution or part of a longer history?

Posted by Julian Williams on 2025-08-07

The 2025 Netflix mini-series Too Much sees Jessica, played by Morgan Slater, relocate to London. To her surprise, the salubrious-sounding ‘Hoxton Grove Estate’ with hoped-for ‘estate grounds, verdant gardens, archways, some real Merchant Ivory-type shit’ turns out to be (irl) the St Peter’s Estate, Hackney Road, London, commissioned in 1962 and completed in 1967 for Tower Hamlets Borough Council. [...]

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What Makes a City Liveable? Rethinking Housing around the world

Posted by Robert Amato Lastman and Jonas E Andersson on 2025-07-18

Housing is fundamental for being and living, but is restrained by availability and usefulness, and ultimately a product of demand and supply. So, what does living well in today’s cities entail? That’s the fundamental question at the centre of this special edition for liveable cities, where the phenomenon of housing is explored not just as a structure, but as a habitat resulting from social, [...]

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