Municipal Dreams
John Boughton's long-running blog on the history of British council housing, usually examining one estate per post.
WebpageSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Identity and authorship of the blog.
- Municipal Dreams
Live blog with posts on council housing, most recently 6 October 2026.
- The Courtauld: A History of Council Housing Design and Planning
States that John Boughton began the Municipal Dreams blog.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The blog posts under the name Municipal Dreams; authorship rests on the Courtauld biography.
- Boughton's book of the same name (Verso, 2018) is a separate work and is not linked from the essay.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
The essay links the blog homepage when naming Boughton as a defender of post-war estates as homes and as history.
In the essays
- Somewhere Worth Living
Read the essay
People
- John Boughton
Author
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/works/boughton-municipal-dreams-blog.md
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