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The architecture critic Lewis Mumford wrote of the Lansbury Estate (1953) "Its design has been based not solely on abstract aesthetic principles, or on the economics of commercial construction, or on the techniques of mass production, but on the social constitution of the community itself, with its
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The philosophy of the design was that new development should comprise neighbourhoods, and that within the neighbourhood should be all that a community required – flats, houses, churches, schools, an old people's home, a pedestrianised shopping area and covered market. There should be pubs and open
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diversity of human interests and human needs. Thus the architects and planners have avoided not only the clichés of ´high rise´ building but the dreary prisonlike order that results from forgetting the very purpose of housing and the necessities of neighbourhood living."
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spaces, linked by footways. Traditional materials were used in the construction, such as London stock bricks and Welsh slate to counter the modern architecture.
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Routes 309 serve the centre of the area. With 15, 115, D6, D7, D8, 277, 135, D3 all serving the edge of the estate.
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has recognised the significance of the estate by listing some of the buildings including the
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Houses on Saracen Street, built in 1951–52, form the north site of the Lansbury Estate
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Layout of the estate, built on a site badly damaged by bombing during the
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Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Tourist attractions in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Housing estates in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Lansbury Estate is one of the largest such estates in
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thought highly of the estate, along with the nearby
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housing estate
Poplar
Bromley-by-Bow
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
George Lansbury
Poplar
councillor
Labour Party
MP
London
Docklands Light Railway
Limehouse Cut
Second World War
London County Council
Arthur Ling
Percy Johnson-Marshall
Festival of Britain
Frederick Gibberd
Chrisp Street Market
Trinity Independent Chapel
Pigott Street
Bartlett Park

English Heritage
SS Mary and Joseph Roman Catholic Church
Adrian Gilbert Scott
John Betjeman
St John's Estate
Isle of Dogs

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