V-TOUR | Public Housing London: Clerkenwell & Finsbury

**Bookings close 4pm, Friday 7 August**

Housing in London is a critical issue. In recent years, a worsening crisis of affordability has spurred the city’s boroughs to again create housing for themselves and today they are working with architects and communities to deliver some of the best anywhere in the capital.

As part of a season of events exploring the legacy of the public sector on the built fabric of the city, urban historian Mike Althorpe aka The London Ambler hosts four walks for The London Society exploring the history of affordable housing through the experiences of four London neighbourhoods charting physical change, local context and the evolution of domestic design and typologies.

Bordering the square mile to its immediate north, Clerkenwell and Finsbury were two of the toughest and hard working neighbourhoods in London. Densely populated, living conditions in these areas were notorious and in the first half of the 20th century they came to incubate progressive and revolutionary political ideas with the local metropolitan borough embracing healthcare programmes, urban improvement and later new concepts in housing that would provide a template for the rest of the UK.

In this v-tour, The London Ambler explores the architectural monuments, engineering triumphs and strange, high and low rise landscapes created in the making of new types of homes that embodied bold ideas and radical design.

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