«In the light of the government's recent proposal of a 'benefits to bricks' scheme to 'reinvigorate the council housing Right to Buy programme', House in the Country is timely, offering a decent primer on how we've ended up where we are when it comes to housing»

Spectator

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Anyone interested in the challenges of housing policy will want to read this methodical analysis of what went well and what did not over much of the last century

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Lord Heseltine

«The convincing case for why our future is urban»

Danny Dorling

«How do you persuade buyers your new development isn't really in a city? Call it a 'garden suburb' or a 'garden city'. Anyone curious about the origin of those two strange oxymorons can learn much from Simon Matthews's House in the Country, a history of British town planning over the past two centuries»

Telegraph