The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London

As London emerged from the devastation of the Second World War, planners and policymakers sought to rebuild the city in ways that would reshape the behavior of its citizens as much as it would its buildings and infrastructure-a program defined by a strong emphasis on civic order and conservative values of national community. In The Spiv and the Architect, Richard Hornsey examines how queer men legitimized, resisted, and reinvented this ambitious reconstruction program, detailing how these e...