Chapter 13 Social Change and Social Capital in an English Suburban Council Estate: The Whitley Estate, Reading, in South East England

Abstract

The marginalisation of council housing in Britain since the Housing Act of 1980 threatens to obscure some of the very valuable lessons to be learned from almost a century of mass public housing provision. This chapter demonstrates that despite considerable economic problems, and in the face of social change since 1980, a relatively poor council estate remained a site of social capital, and that women were particularly prominent in working with local agencies to solve problems.

Citation

Clapson, M. (2011), "Chapter 13 Social Change and Social Capital in an English Suburban Council Estate: The Whitley Estate, Reading, in South East England", Perrone, C., Manella, G. and Tripodi, L. (Ed.) Everyday Life in the Segmented City (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 283-306. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-0042(2011)0000011016