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	Arcadia for All: The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape by Dennis Hardy & Colin Ward From Canvey Island to Jaywick Sands, from Peacehaven to Pitsea; in the first 40 years of last century thousands of families made their own place in the sun, without benefit of councils, planners, architects, building societies, or even builders. Were they, as many planners and environmentalists suggested, making rural slums and seaside eyesores, or were they providing a unique example of unaided self-build housing, with lessons for us all today? Here the authors uncover the history of the 'plotlands' of South-East England, telling the fascinating detail of the places people built for themselves on the coast and in the country, and of what happened to them since, drawing parallels with similar developments in other parts of the world. 2004, 320pp, index, illus, RRP £14.99 Our price: £11.50


	The Streets of East London by William J Fishman, with photographs by Nicholas Breach The home of successive waves of immigrants, from the Huguenots in the seventeenth century to the Jews in the nineteenth century and Bangla-Deshis today, London's East End has been the scene of its worst poverty and exploitation, and has inspired its greatest philanthropists, reformers and radicals. The East End is, and always has been, a place where conditions are tough, crime violent and work hard, but in which Cockney optimism and love of life are proverbial. In this classic text, the area's turbulent past and continuing traditions are accurately explored in text and pictures. 2006, 140pp, bib, illus, RRP £12.99 Our price: £10.00


	Villages of Vision: A Study of Strange Utopias by Gillian Darley Villages of Vision is a much celebrated and pioneering book about planned villages, invented for aesthetic, philanthropic or political reasons, for convenience and for ideals — the best known being Milton Abbas, New Lanark and Port Sunlight. Gillian Darley includes many hundreds in her book, among them the strange and pretty arcadias built by conscience-stricken aristocrats, industrialists and visionaries. This revised edition includes a greatly expanded gazetteer, a revised bibliography, a new introduction and a foreword by David McKie of The Guardian. 2007, 342pp, index, illus, RRP £14.99 Our price: £11.00

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