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Visionary who realised the dream of a democratic architecture
Sydney Cooks contribution to the development of social housing is recognised in an excellent new book, says MICHAL BONCZA
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
Cook’s Camden: The Making of Modern Housing
by Mark Swenarton
(Lund Humphries, £45)
SYDNEY COOK’S contribution to architecturally innovative social housing is the stuff of legend.
Post-war, many of the housing estates he inspired and helped build in London — the Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Highgate New Town, Maiden Lane, Polygon Road and Fleet Road — are today places of pilgrimage for students of architecture and urbanism from the world over.
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