Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future

Peter Guillery is an architectural historian and editor for the Survey of London, the topographical series founded in 1894, now part of the Bartlett School of Architecture. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and serves on the committees of the Centre for Metropolitan History and the London Journal. David Kroll is an architect with experience in professional practice, academic teaching and research. He is a lecturer in architecture at the University of South Australia and has held lecturing positions at the University of East London, University of Kent and Anglia Ruskin University.

Foreword - Owen Hatherley Preface - Andrew Saint Introduction - Peter Guillery and David Kroll Chapter 1: Urban Design in Victorian London: The Minet Estate in Lambeth 1870 to c. 1910 - David Kroll Chapter 2: Miles of Silly Little Dirty Houses: The Lessons of Victorian Battersea - Colin Thom Chapter 3: Renewable Principles in H A Darbishire's Peabody Estates 1864-1885 - Irina Davidovici Chapter 4: Residential Flats: Densification in Victorian and Early 20th-Century London - Richard Dennis Chapter 5: South Acton Unsustained - Peter Guillery Chapter 6: High Social Housing in London c.1940-1970 - Simon Pepper Chapter 7: 'We felt magnificent being up there': Erno Goldfinger's Balfron Tower and the campaign to keep it public - David Roberts Chapter 8: Out-of-Sync Estates - Ben Campkin Chapter 9: Gentrification: The Case of Canonbury - Tanis Hinchcliffe Chapter 10: Victorian Houses: Recent Approaches to Sustainable Retrofit - Sofie Pelsmakers and David Kroll