{"id":23009,"date":"2024-11-10T21:57:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T21:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=23009"},"modified":"2024-11-10T21:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T21:57:55","slug":"book-launch-hartcliffe-betrayed","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/book-launch-hartcliffe-betrayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Book launch: Hartcliffe Betrayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18260 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hartcliffe-from-the-air-1960s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hartcliffe-from-the-air-1960s.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hartcliffe-from-the-air-1960s-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hartcliffe-from-the-air-1960s-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hartcliffe-from-the-air-1960s-270x201.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hartcliffe-from-the-air-1960s-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hartcliffe from the air 1960s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The long awaited launch of Paul Smith&#8217;s book <em>Hartcliffe Betrayed: The fading of a poast-war dream, <\/em>or how a garden city became a housing estate, 1943-1963.<\/p>\n<p>A salutary lesson for current planners can be drawn from this detailed examination of the failure of an ambitious project in the immediate post-war environment to live up to its expectations. Houses were desperately needed: What principles should underpin a new \u2018settlement\u2019? Where should the houses go? Who were they for? And what provision should be made for the likely political and financial changes over the timescale of the project?<\/p>\n<p>Changing governments, shifting priorities and inevitable cuts meant the dream was progressively trimmed and gradually became drowned in a sea of MUD.<\/p>\n<p>In Hartcliffe Betrayed, quotes from official documents, contemporary newspapers and interviews with \u2018pioneer\u2019 residents show the downward slide from \u2018ideal neighbourhood\u2019 to dormitory estate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21906 img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/62_covers_FRONT-604x854.jpg\" alt=\"Front cover showing girls playing in front of a Hartcliffe council house\" width=\"329\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/62_covers_FRONT-604x854.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/62_covers_FRONT-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/62_covers_FRONT-332x470.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/62_covers_FRONT-100x141.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/62_covers_FRONT-270x382.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/62_covers_FRONT-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/62_covers_FRONT.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long awaited launch of Paul Smith&#8217;s book Hartcliffe Betrayed: The fading of a poast-war dream, or how a garden city became a housing estate, 1943-1963. 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