Before Grenfell
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Before Grenfell
Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain
University of London Press
ISBN: 9781914477256
Pub:
2023 August 8
$19.99 USD
Breve Descripción
El incendio de la torre Grenfell de 2017 en Londres fue un “desastre lento”, producto de una larga acumulación de fallas y errores que resultaron de suposiciones erróneas y toma de decisiones gubernamentales y organizacionales. Este libro ofrece una perspectiva crítica sobre las fallas sistemáticas que conducen a una de las mayores tragedias en Gran Bretaña en nuestro tiempo.
Breve descrição
O incêndio da Torre Grenfell em Londres em 2017 foi um “desastre lento”, produto de um longo acúmulo de falhas e erros resultantes de suposições errôneas e tomadas de decisão governamentais e organizacionais. Este livro oferece uma perspectiva crítica sobre as falhas sistêmicas que levaram a uma das maiores tragédias britânicas de nosso tempo.
Full description
An account of the systemic failures that led to the Grenfell tower fire.
The 2017 Grenfell tower fire in London was a “slow disaster,” the product of a long accumulation of faults and errors that resulted from erroneous assumptions and organizational and governmental decision-making. This book offers a critical perspective on the systematic failures that lead to one of the greatest tragedies in Britain in our time.
Before Grenfell is a poignant and timely analysis of risk, fire, and safety in postwar Britain. Tracing the evolution of state housing policy in relation to multistory housing since the mid-1950s, the book adds to a burgeoning history of the British experience of fire and safety in high-rises and investigates a latent housing crisis in contemporary Britain against a backdrop of increasingly deregulated urban building development. Drawing on public inquiries, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Shane Ewen details other avoidable disasters, including the Ronan Point tower block explosion in 1968, the Summerland leisure center fire in 1972, and the Bradford City Football Club fire in 1985. The book closes with a powerful chapter on fire safety campaigners, including survivor groups, who are seeking justice for the victims of fire disasters. Before Grenfell aims to exert pressure on policy-makers to act on the lessons of fatal disasters in order to both prevent future casualties and establish a legacy for those who lost their lives.
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