Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2022
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Abstract Ronan Point was a residential tower block that partially collapsed in Newham 1968, provoking nationwide scandal. The disaster is frequently cited as symbolic ‘turning point’ the urban history of Britain, but it has been surprisingly underexplored on an archival level. It identified moment at which high-rise architecture overwhelmingly discredited: defining event within narratives ‘urban crisis’ and ‘decline’ late twentieth-century Britain. This article proposes scandal should be understood democratic crisis, rather than one unique to ‘inner city’. foregrounded profound deficit political culture post-war reconstruction. However, this revises standard exclusively crisis consider dually possibility for British welfare state, social democracy. constituted key anti-deferential discourses were harnessed by grassroots actors challenge legitimacy technocratic expertise lobby more participatory reimagination settlement. goes on, nevertheless, explore how such empowerment would also mobilized justify movement away from public housing towards owner-occupation.
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عنوان ژورنال: Twentieth Century British History
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1477-4674', '0955-2359']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwad045