ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with the innovations in housing design pioneered by the garden city movement before the First World War. It looks at the development of housing policy and the design of public housing. The book examines the adoption by the government of the garden city model for wartime housing requirements. It also looks at the development of the thinking in Whitehall and Westminster that led to the housing campaign, and reveals the political considerations to which deliberations on both policy and design were subject. The book also deals with the housing campaign itself and shows what happened when the government had to translate the promise of 'homes fit for heroes' into reality. It explains the administration of the campaign and also examines the instructions on design issued to local authorities by Whitehall.
