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…

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