Making the Railways Pay: The Redevelopment of Euston Station, Labour and Conservative Visions of Public Sector Property Speculation in the 1960s and 1970s

Harrison, Ewan (2022) Making the Railways Pay: The Redevelopment of Euston Station, Labour and Conservative Visions of Public Sector Property Speculation in the 1960s and 1970s. TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY, 33 (4). pp. 571-592.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwac008

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article examines the redevelopment of Euston Station forecourt as a speculative development of offices designed by the prolific post-war commercial architectural practice R. Seifert & Partners from c.1970 to 1979. The article offers a reading of the development as a piece of state-encouraged, public-sector led property development. It uncovers the encouragement given by Harold Wilson’s Labour government to for-profit property developments on nationalized land and the simultaneous control of private sector office development by the same government. It reveals a consistent labourite vision of public sector property development.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	21 Jun 2022 14:41
Last Modified:	29 Dec 2022 01:49
DOI:	10.1093/tcbh/hwac008
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3156913