Concretopia A Journey Around The Rebuilding Of Postwar Britain by John Grindrod
4 stars
An enoyable non-fiction read on a subject - the postwar rebuilding of homes in Britain - that does not immediately suggest that it would be so engaging. As I read I was struck by how many of the places of my life - Cwmbran, Hemel Hempstead, Plymouth, Milton Keynes, etc. - featured in the book, but if you are interested in mid-century modern design, brutalism, etc. then there's something here for you even if you don't know these places.
I'd score it 4 out of 5, it misses out on a higher score for the (frankly lazy) mistake of stating Cwmbran's location as being "between Cardiff and Newport", a 30 second look on Google maps would've shown this as nonsense.
