In what ways did twentieth-century planners consider that their new utopia was better than the Victorian urban inheritance ? The official involvement in housing dates back to a mid-Victorian concern with slum properties as breeding grounds for epidemic disease, vice and lawlessness . This left Britain housing its population in a crumbling Victorian legacy in the first half of the twentieth-century, which was now widely regarded as one of the sharpest indictments against laissez-faire society . Before 1914 only …showed first 75 words of 1137 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1137 total…the majority of families that received new housing during Britain’s building boom and obsession with “ modernity “ were grateful, but this idyllic new concept would not last. Just as the Victorian urban tenement aged and was found to be unacceptable, the twentieth-century architecture and design with its walls, walkways and protection from the elements has fallen the same fate. In many ways the Victorian urban problem was just updated and moved away from the inner-city.