Peter Willmott - The Evolution of a Community: A Study of Dagenham After Forty - Sociology Book

Name: Peter Willmott - The Evolution of a Community: A Study of Dagenham After Forty - Sociology Book
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Peter Willmott

The Evolution of a CommunityA Study of Dagenham After Forty Years\nAuthor(s): Peter Willmott\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032545080, 978-1032545080\nSynopsis\nIn earlier studies, Peter Willmott and other investigators had documented the social problems of new housing estates the loneliness, the tensions, the disruption of family and neighbourhood ties. But how far are such troubles transitory? What kind of life would develop in communities like these when time had rubbed off the newness?\n\nOriginally published in 1963, in search of an answer, Peter Willmott went to Dagenham in Essex, where forty years before the London County Council began to build a giant estate to rehouse people from the East End of London. His study of a new estate that had now become an old one throws light on the long-term effects of this kind of migration. He found at Dagenham, most strikingly, that a way of life very similar to a t.