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	Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain 4.23 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outskirts: Living Life on the edge of the Green Belt 3.89 avg rating — 167 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain 4.29 avg rating — 146 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: Short Trips, Volume 4 by Xanna Eve Chown (Editor), David Troughton (Narrator), Katy Manning (Narrator) 3.71 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Love Brutalism 3.65 avg rating — 96 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shouting at the Telly by John Grindrod (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Colin Harvey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.30 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brutal London: Construct Your Own Concrete Capital by Zupagrafika (Goodreads Author), John Grindrod (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Peter Chadwick (Contributor) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who - The Old Rogue (Short Trips Vol. 4) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“By 1951, eight million homes had been declared unfit for habitation, of which seven million had no hot water and six million no inside toilet.”
― John Grindrod, Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain

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