The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum |
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Sarah Wise
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Pages: 240 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0224071750
Pub: The Bodley Head Ltd
Pub date: 2008-06-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2731
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A Glimpse of the First Sink Estates (6/6 people found this helpful)
Thank you Sarah for setting out in great detail what many refuse to accept - poor social planning has its consequences. Today, we read of sink estates, crime and poverty unaware that these issues are not new. Sarah Wise has highlighted the attitudes that existed in the 19th century to proper housing for the working classes, and when we look at the problems surround modern day housing estates we find that little has changed. Councils, Housing Trusts and Landlords indifferent to the conditions of their tenants so long as the money is rolling in, and when dissent is voiced, use the law, use the courts use any means possible to avoid the legal, moral and social responsibilities of the provision and maintainence of decent housing. Sarah's message is buried deep in the pages of this marvellous book, which is a wealth of social and urban history.
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