Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' and blog.
2/ There is some good quality new build from Camden, mostly social rent though sadly built to replace homes lost to HS2. I've written on the Regent's Park Estate here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/reg… 
2/ Most of the photographs depict the varied housing of the New Towns; on the left, a 'detached managerial-type house' in Glenrothes; to the right, flats and houses in Crawley and terrace houses in East Kilbride. 
2/ Further west, Denton Tower, a 20-storey tower block built by Camden in 1970. It's sheltered and retirement housing now. It looks darker, pre-refurb, in the 1988 image to the right. 
2/ Baťa foresaw a ‘gigantic new industrial centre...to contain...forty different factories and the houses of the workpeople, together with a railway station, riverside jetty, shops, aerodrome, swimming baths, theatre, dance halls and cinemas’. Here it is, a bit smaller, in 1958: 
2/ Tomlinson Close was part of the London County Council’s Newling Estate built in the 1960s. It was the childhood home of comedian Micky Flanagan. (Micky bought a copy of my book at a talk I gave. I recognised him but couldn’t remember his name, not that he minded.) 
2/ Fieldgate Mansions, built 1905-06 by the London Hospital Estate: the scene of Communist-led rent strikes in the 1930s and, when slated for demolition in the 1970s, occupied by hippies and the Bengali Housing Action Group. 
