As part of our Social Housing Revival series, Dezeen asked the creator of the new London Estates book to select the 10 most influential examples of modernist council housing built in the UK capital in the post-war period.
Balfron Tower and Dawson's Heights are among the estates featured in the book, which showcases social housing built in London during a major public construction boom in the decades following the second world war.
Photographer Thaddeus Zupan?i?, who produced the book, has a long-standing interest in housing estates, which increased when he moved to London.
"I was always interested in housing estates, first in my native Slovenia and then, on my travels around Europe, also in Vienna, Berlin and Paris," he told Dezeen. "After I moved to London, I started discovering even more exciting council estates ? mostly modernist, some brutalist, usually post-war," he added. "I find their vital contribution to the social and architectural fabric of the capital truly fascinating."

17a and 17b Longton Avenue, Sydenham, by Walter Segal's self-build group (1980)
"The houses built by Walter Segal's self-builders with the help of the Lewisham Architect's Department in south London ? the first phase were schemes in Segal Close, Ormanton Road, Elstree Hill and Longton Avenue ? might not look modernist, but their ethos certainly is.
"The self-builders, with little or no experience, had to fit the construction work in at evenings and weeke...