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John Grindrod

I am the author of books about twentieth century social history, architecture and geography. Also contains dad jokes. www.johngrindrod.co.uk

Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates
The Age of Spectacle: The Rise and Fall of Iconic Architecture
Pablo Bronstein: Pseudo-Georgian London
Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories
Social Housing: Definitions and Design Exemplars
Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City
One Kensington: Tales from the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough in Britain
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city
The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture
All That Is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
A Place for All People: Life, Architecture and the Fair Society
South Bank: Architecture & Design
Modern Buildings in London
Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
Brutal Outer London: The First Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture in London's Outer Boroughs
Estates: An Intimate History
When the Lights Went Out: What Really Happened to Britain in the Seventies
Nairn's London
Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer
Brutalist Britain: Buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates
New Towns: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
Prefabs: A social and architectural history
Festival of Britain
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
Edgelands
The Great North Wood
A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land
The Unofficial Countryside
London Orbital
Car Park Life: A Portrait of Britain's Unexplored Urban Wilderness
The Making of the English Landscape
News from Nowhere and Other Writings
The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain
Silent Spring
Silent Spring Revisited
Scarp
Out of the Woods
Common Ground: One of Britain’s Favourite Nature Books as featured on BBC’s Winterwatch
South Bank: Architecture & Design
Brutal Outer London: The First Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture in London's Outer Boroughs
Brutalist Britain: Buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism
Brutal London
Atlas of Brutalist Architecture: Classic format
Simon Phipps Finding Brutalism: A Photographic Survey of Post-War British Architecture
Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England
Brutalism: Post-War British Architecture, Second Edition
Brutalism
Brutalist London Map
Modernist Estates - Europe: The buildings and the people who live in them today
Modern Forms: A Subjective Atlas of 20th Century Architecture
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings
Concrete and Culture: A Material History
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Nice Work
The Life and Loves of a She Devil
City of the Mind
Millennium People
The London Eye Mystery
Beyond Black
Capital: The bestselling novel, now on Netflix
Perfidious Albion
England's Post-War Listed Buildings
Mid-Century Britain: Modern Architecture 1938–1963
Brutalist Britain: Buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
Art Deco Britain: Buildings of the interwar years
Erno Goldfinger
Nottingham: Pevsner City Guide
South Bank: Architecture & Design
Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC
How to Enjoy Architecture: A Guide for Everyone
Brutal Wales
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow
London Estates: Modernist Council Housing 1946-1981
100 20th-Century Shops
Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals
Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds
London Tube Stations 1924-1961
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
Back to the Local
Public House
The Housing Lark
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With The Routemaster
The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London
High Buildings, Low Morals: Another Sideways Look at Twentieth Century London
Peace! Books! Freedom! The Secret History of a Radical London Building
The National Archives: The Buildings That Made London
Modern Buildings in London
Brutalist London Map: Guide to Brutalist architecture in London - 2nd edition
An Opinionated Guide to London Architecture
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars