***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023***
'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of the Week
On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames.
The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to 'stay put'. Many did - and they died.
It was a tragedy decades in the making.
Peter Apps meticulously exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused a tragedy. 72 people did not need to die, as the Grenfell Tower Inquiry makes clear. Here is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for justice.
| ISBN: | 9780861546152 |
| Publication date: | 10th November 2022 |
| Author: | Peter Apps |
| Publisher: | Oneworld an imprint of Oneworld Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Materials in architecture Social discrimination and social justice Poverty and precarity Housing and homelessness Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made) Corporate crime / white-collar crime Disaster control and fire protection law Fire protection and safety Corruption in politics, government and society Business ethics and social responsibility Civil service and public sector Politics and government |