Review: Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power—A Global History

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power—A Global History Miles Glendinning Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power—A Global History London: Bloomsbury, 2021, 688 pp. , 150 color and 40 b/w illus. 115 (cloth), ISBN 9781474229272; 39. 95 (paper), ISBN 9781474222501 Yael Allweil Yael Allweil Technion–Israel Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 117–118. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 117 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power—A Global History. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2024; 83 (1): 117–118. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 117 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Miles Glendinning's Mass Housing is a monumental history of one of the most comprehensive global enterprises of modernity: radical modernization through housing for the vast majority. It covers a long period, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, offering a renewed historiography of modern architecture revolving around mass housing. This comprehensive work is based on archival and field research of state-produced mass housing on four continents, encompassing varied political economic contexts and languages, with attention to emergencies, deep transitions in state apparatuses, and political economy. The result is a grand narrative, echoing Peter Hall's Cities of Tomorrow (2014), Lewis Mumford's The City in History (1961), and Lawrence Vale's From the Puritans to the Projects (2000), works that have had immense impacts on the discipline of urban history. 1 Following this tradition, Mass Housing is as ambitious as its inspirations. Mass housing is a perplexing object of inquiry for architectural historians,. . . You do not currently have access to this content.