Society, Politics & Law
Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
...Change and continuity as communities come and go The Boundary Estate housing development, which has Arnold Circus at its heart, was designed to remedy the desperate poverty of slums that were cleared to provide the space for it. But the rents of this first council housing estate were too high for the displaced residents. The slum dwellers of the Old Nichol were pushed...