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“... All I can offer​ is my years of lived experience,’ Lynsey Hanley wrote at the end of Estates: An Intimate History (2007). Her account of growing up on the vast Chelmsley Wood housing estate south-east of Birmingham in the 1980s (she was born in 1976) was an offering to policymakers, architects, planners and politicians: if they knew what it was like they might consider ways and means of making social housing a less miserable setting for so many people’s lives ...”

“... Broker’; ‘TV Hospital’.Though he is easily defined by his subject matter (Lynsey Hanley makes a good case in the exhibition catalogue for his continued social and political relevance), Killip also had a fierce sense of the way the styles of his predecessors might be redeployed. His Huddersfield Whippet Fancier from 1973 could have ...”

“... being met by a publicly owned National Housing Service as universal and comprehensive as the NHS. Lynsey Hanley, in Estates: An Intimate History, quotes from a speech – not cited in Nye – that Bevan gave at Spa Green, an attractive, ultra-modern housing estate in Finsbury designed by Berthold Lubetkin. ‘We shall be judged in ten years’ time by ...”

“... or their children, or anyone they knew. There’s much truth in this. In her book Estates (2007) Lynsey Hanley, who was brought up on a council estate on the edge of Birmingham, mocks architectural critics who describe various notorious London council tower blocks as inspiring ‘a delicate sense of terror’ or ‘incredibly ...”

“... a ministry for permissions, regulations and administration.’ But at least they did regulations. Lynsey Hanley captures Crossman’s frustration in her book Estates: An Intimate History. He ‘saw that the provision rate was too slow and instructed authorities to exercise their compulsory purchase powers and construct large overspill estates’. A ...”