Prefab is Back in Town

Habra, Katia and Trindle, Theadora (2015) Prefab is Back in Town. Accelerating Housing Production in London (20 Apr 2015). Website.

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London is in the throes of a housing supply crisis, we all know this by now. What is less known is how to address it in a way that produces new stock quickly, efficiently and of high quality. While often overlooked, there is a precedent in London’s history for doing this successfully: the use of prefabricated technologies in post-war home-building. Yet despite its original practicality, the stigmatised connotations associated with ‘prefab’ have inhibited it from serving as a legitimate housing solution. The charity organisation YMCA London South West (YMCA LSW) is now challenging this vision through the development of a pioneering modular housing scheme known as Y:Cube.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://lselondonhousing.org/
Additional Information:	© 2015 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform T Technology > TH Building construction
Date Deposited:	11 Jul 2017 11:33
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:14
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/83404

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