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- Title
Governmentality on the Park Hill estate: the rationality of public housing.
- Authors
HOLLOW, MATTHEW
- Abstract
This article evaluates the inherent ambiguity of the landmark Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield, England. Incorporating Foucault's theories on governmentality and biopolitics, this article explores how techniques of power and control radically affected the way this building was both used and viewed. It shows how conflicting discourses about human needs and desires influenced the way that subjects were housed, managed and regulated in Sheffield during the supposedly homogeneous welfare-state years.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; PUBLIC housing; HOUSING; HOUSING policy; POWER (Social sciences); PLANNED communities; URBAN planning; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology); POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
Urban History, 2010, Vol 37, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S096392681000009X