Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introducing Collective Housing Alternatives -- Why Collective Housing Alternatives? -- Articulating Our Housing Commons -- Bringing the State Back In -- 2. Why Liverpool of All Places? -- A City of Radicals and Reformists -- A City on (the) Edge? -- A City Playing the Urban Regeneration Game -- Structure of the Book -- Part II. The Housing Question -- 3. Revisiting the Housing Question -- Nouns and Verbs: On the Nature of Value -- Exploitation and Alienation: On the Contradictions of Capitalism -- Ends and Means: The Point Is to Change It! -- 4. Liverpool's Co-operative Revolution -- Rehabilitating Housing in a SNAP -- You Hold the Pen, We'll Tell You What to Draw! -- Competition: The Counterintuitive Component of Cooperativism -- 5. Liberal Compromises: Diluting the Cooperative Revolution? -- You Can Have Any House You Like So Long as It's a New-Build Co-op -- Utalitarianism (Utilitarian plus Totalitarian): On Form Following Function -- Contradictions of Choice: Defensive Urbanism or (Extra)Ordinary Sub-urbanism? -- 6. Municipalisation: A Militant Response to the Housing Question -- A Tory-Liberal Plot: The Gravedigger of Municipal Housing? -- Defensible Principles and (Policy) Design Disadvantagement -- Keeping the Cooperative Spirit Alive: The Movement Migrates to Knowsley -- Part III. The Neighbourhood Question -- 7. Locating the Neighbourhood Question -- Liverpool's Second Blitz -- How to Make Water Flow Uphill -- Can Collective Housing Save the City? -- 8. The Eldonians: From Parish Politics to Global Exemplar -- Militant Tactics, Boss Politics, Tribal Loyalties, Friends in High Places -- We Do It Better Together: Towards a Self-Regenerating Community -- Eldonia: An Independent Micro-State?.

9. Cooperative by Name If Not by Nature -- Singing the Post-Development Blues: On Revolutionaries Retiring -- Third Sector Empire-Building -- The Story So Far: How Self-Regenerating, Really? -- Part IV. The Urban Question -- 10. Grappling with the Urban Question -- Weapons Wielded against Enclosure of the Commons -- Grounding Capitalism in the Land Question -- Housing Market Renewal, Neo-Haussmannisation and the New Urban Enclosures -- 11. Growing Granby from the Grassroots: A (Plant) Potted History -- Living through Hell: On the Violence of Managed Decline -- Putting the T into CLT -- Finishing the Work that SNAP Started -- From Success to Failure: A Great British Property Scandal -- 12. Technocratic Experiment or Experimental Utopia? -- Dereliction-by-Design and Transatlantic Knowledge Transfer -- Homebaked: Brick by Brick, Loaf by Loaf, We Build Ourselves -- Seeing Liverpool's Housing History through a Bifocal Verb-Noun Lens -- Part V. Conclusion -- 13. Reconstructing Public Housing (History) -- In, Against and Beyond Public Housing -- How to Answer the Housing, Neighbourhood and Urban Questions? -- Using the Master's Tools to Dismantle the Master's House -- 14. On (Myth) Making History -- From Heroic Event to Boring Bureaucratic Process -- The Myth of Liverpool Exceptionalism -- Recipes for Revolution: From Cultivating Local Delicacies to Sourcing Essential Ingredients -- 15. Building a Bureaucracy from Below -- Dormant, Not Defunct: Self-Funding the Next Co-Op Spring -- Realising Municipal Dreams -- Recoding the DNA of Collective Alternatives -- Epilogue: Translating Between Inward, Upward and Outward Languages -- Artificial Hells, Social Practice and Artistic Spectacle: Who (or What) Is All This For? -- Bibliography -- Index.

Reconstructing Public Housing tells the story of Liverpool's 'cooperative revolution' in municipal housing development in the 1970s, how this laid the foundations for the first ever architectural or urban regeneration project to win the artworld's coveted Turner Prize, and what this says about how we might renew public housing, collectively.

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