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Book Social Housing and Urban Renewal

Download or read book Social Housing and Urban Renewal written by Paul Watt and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary urban renewal is the subject of intense academic and policy debate regarding whether it promotes social mixing and spatial justice, or instead enhances neoliberal privatization and state-led gentrification. This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing.

Book The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs written by Bernadette Hanlon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume will serve as the definitive reference for scholars and students of the suburbs. This volume brings together the leading scholars of the suburbs researching in different parts of the world to better understand how and why suburbs and their communities grow, decline, and regenerate. The volume sets out four goals: 1) to provide a synthesis and critical appraisal of the historical and current state of understanding about the development of suburbs in the world; 2) to provide a forum for a comprehensive examination into the conceptual, theoretical, spatial, and empirical discontents of suburbanization; 3) to engage in a scholarly conversation about the transformation of suburbs that is interdisciplinary in nature and bridges the divide between the Global North and the Global South; and 4) to reflect on the implications of the socioeconomic, cultural, and political transformations of the suburbs for policymakers and planners. The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs is composed of original, scholarly contributions from the leading scholars of the study of how and why suburbs grow, decline, and transform. Special attention is paid to the global nature of suburbanization and its regional variations, with a focus on comparative analysis of suburbs through regions across the world in the Global North and the Global South. Articulated in a common voice, the volume is integrated by the very nature of the concept of a suburb as the unit of analysis, offering multidisciplinary perspectives from the fields of economics, geography, planning, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

Book Global Dwelling

    Book Details:
  • Author : K. Hadjri
  • Publisher : WIT Press
  • Release : 2020-05-12
  • ISBN : 1784662194
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Global Dwelling written by K. Hadjri and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers from the proceedings of the Third OIKONET Conference is contained in this book. OIKONET is a European project co-funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) with the purpose of studying contemporary housing from a multidisciplinary and global perspective by encompassing the multiple dimensions which condition the forms of dwelling in today’s societies: architectural, urban, environmental, economic, cultural and social. Following on from the first two OIKONET conferences held respectively in Barcelona, Spain in 2014 and Bratislava, Slovakia in 2015, the third conference took place in Manchester, the UK in 2016. Providing a valuable resource for students, lecturers, researchers and others with an interest in housing studies, the papers included in this book cover three themes, namely sustainability of housing environments, innovation in housing design and planning, and participation in housing design and construction.

Book Urban Revolution Now

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr Ákos Moravánszky
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2014-12-28
  • ISBN : 1472402715
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Urban Revolution Now written by Dr Ákos Moravánszky and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-12-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to develop Lefebvre’s concepts in social research and architecture by focusing on urban conjunctures in Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Hong Kong, London, New Orleans, Nowa Huta, Paris, Toronto, São Paulo, Sarajevo, as well as in Mexico and Switzerland. With contributions by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural scientists, Urban Revolution Now reveals the multiplicity of processes of urbanization and the variety of their patterns and actors around the globe.

Book Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration

Download or read book Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration written by Nele Aernouts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the planning process. The book combines theory and practice, since it is the result of action-research conducted in different social housing estates all over Europe. Building on the results of the SoHoLab project (2017–2020), the book benefits from a multidisciplinary perspective, since the researchers involved belong to the fields of anthropology, urban planning, architecture, urban sociology. The project combined theoretical reflections with the installation and/or the consolidation of Urban Living Labs, run by universities, in large social housing estates in three European cities: Brussels, Milan and Paris.

Book OECD Territorial Reviews  Valle de M  xico  Mexico

Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews Valle de M xico Mexico written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review finds that while Mexico has taken important steps in addressing the urban challenges in the Valle de México, Mexico’s largest metropolitan area, there is a need for major metropolitan governance reform.

Book Making Cities Work for All Data and Actions for Inclusive Growth

Download or read book Making Cities Work for All Data and Actions for Inclusive Growth written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides ground-breaking, internationally comparable data on economic growth, inequalities and well-being at the city level in OECD countries, and a framework for action, to help national and local governments reorient policies towards more inclusive growth in cities.

Book Urban Revolutions

Download or read book Urban Revolutions written by Stefan Kipfer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on struggles and debates in France, Martinique and Canada, Urban Revolutions shows how research on the (neo-)colonial dimensions of capitalist urbanization deepens the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial traditions, including those represented by Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon.

Book Cities and Affordable Housing

Download or read book Cities and Affordable Housing written by Sasha Tsenkova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people- and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good practices of city-led strategies for affordable housing provision, as well as individual projects capitalising on partnerships to build mixed-income housing and revitalise neighbourhoods. Twenty chapters provide unique perspectives on diversity of approaches in eight countries and 12 cities in Europe, Canada and the USA. Combining academic rigour with knowledge from critical practice, the book uses robust empirical analysis and evidence-based case study research to illustrate the potential of affordable housing partnerships for mixed-income, socially inclusive neighbourhoods as a model to rebuild cities. Cities and Affordable Housing is an essential interdisciplinary collection on planning and design that will be of great interest to scholars, urban professionals, architects, planners and policy-makers interested in housing, urban planning and city building.

Book Ardeth  10 11

    Book Details:
  • Author : AA.VV.
  • Publisher : Rosenberg & Sellier
  • Release : 2023-11-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Ardeth 10 11 written by AA.VV. and published by Rosenberg & Sellier. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural institutions are reviewing modes of learning and practice of architecture to reflect the changing professional landscape. Schools confront the ever-acute tensions between critical thinking and the market. The training of architects who will likely be working in different contexts requires new frames of reference and paradigms. What competencies should the practitioner of architecture possess to bridge technical and managerial specializations in light of competitiveness and nuances of culture? How do the practices and performances of the profession take into account the hybrids and collaborations that define the broad scope of projects? The dilemma of competency lies in the rigorous study of the conditions and processes of architecture, configuring and situating skills and capabilities.

Book Cities Interrupted

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shirley Jordan
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-02-25
  • ISBN : 1474224431
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Cities Interrupted written by Shirley Jordan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of 'interruption' in global cities enables new understanding of the forms of space, experience, and community that are emerging in today's rapidly transforming urban environments. The idea of 'interruption' addressed in this book refers to deliberate interventions in the spaces and communities of contemporary cities – interventions that seek to disrupt or destabilize the experience of everyday urban life through creative practice. Interruption is used as an analytic and conceptual tool to challenge – and explore alternatives to – the narratives of speed, hyper-mobility, rapid growth, and incessant exchange and flow that have dominated critical thinking on global cities. Bringing art and creative practice into the centre of discussions about the future of cities, alongside discussions of development, design, justice, health, sustainability, technology, and citizenship, this book is essential reading for anyone working at the intersections of a range of urban, cultural and visual fields, including urban studies, urban design and architecture, visual studies, cultural studies, media studies, art history, and social and cultural geography.

Book Housing Estates in Europe

Download or read book Housing Estates in Europe written by Daniel Baldwin Hess and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood amenities, and metropolitan connectivity? How do housing estates contribute to the urban mosaic of neighborhoods by ethnic and socio-economic status? What types of policies and planning initiatives have been implemented in order to prevent the social downgrading of housing estates? The collection of chapters in this book addresses these questions from a new perspective previously unexplored in scholarly literature. The social aspects of housing estates are thoroughly investigated (including socio-demographic and economic characteristics of current and past inhabitants; ethnicity and segregation patterns; population dynamics; etc.), and the physical composition of housing estates is described in significant detail (including building materials; building form; architectural and landscape design; built environment characteristics; etc.). This book is timely because the recent global economic crisis and Europe’s immigration crisis demand a thorough investigation of the role large housing estates play in poverty and ethnic concentration. Through case studies of housing estates in 14 European centers, the book also identifies policy measures that have been used to address challenges in housing estates throughout Europe.

Book Social Housing in Europe

Download or read book Social Housing in Europe written by Kathleen Scanlon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All countries aim to improve housing conditions for their citizens but many have been forced by the financial crisis to reduce government expenditure. Social housing is at the crux of this tension. Policy-makers, practitioners and academics want to know how other systems work and are looking for something written in clear English, where there is a depth of understanding of the literature in other languages and direct contributions from country experts across the continent. Social Housing in Europe combines a comparative overview of European social housing written by scholars with in-depth chapters written by international housing experts. The countries covered include Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, The Netherlands and Sweden, with a further chapter devoted to CEE countries other than Hungary. The book provides an up-to-date international comparison of social housing policy and practice. It offers an analysis of how the social housing system currently works in each country, supported by relevant statistics. It identifies European trends in the sector, and opportunities for innovation and improvement. These country-specific chapters are accompanied by topical thematic chapters dealing with subjects such as the role of social housing in urban regeneration, the privatisation of social housing, financing models, and the impact of European Union state aid regulations on the definitions and financing of social housing.

Book A quoi sert la r  novation urbaine

Download or read book A quoi sert la r novation urbaine written by Jacques Donzelot and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 2012 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancé en 2003, le programme de rénovation urbaine arrive à son terme en 2013. Mais déjà la plupart des responsables politiques demandent sa reconduction. Est-ce à dire que l’on a, avec lui, trouvé la solution au problème des banlieues ? Cela se saurait ! Mais un tel consensus sur ce mode d’action correspond nécessairement à l’obtention d’un certain nombre d’effets. C’est à l’analyse des raisons de ce consensus, des nouveautés de ce mode d’action et de la nature de ses effets que se consacre ce recueil. Pour montrer, d’abord, comment ce programme visant à défaire les grands ensembles au nom de la mixité sociale a pu satisfaire à la fois la gauche (en évitant la réservation du logement social aux pauvres, en gardant donc sa vocation « généraliste ») et la droite (en proposant de réaliser la mixité dans les cités sociales plutôt que dans les beaux quartiers et en y apportant ainsi un principe d’ordre). Pour décrire ensuite le mode d’action de la rénovation, la raison de son impact spectaculaire. Pour décrire enfin et surtout les effets de cette rénovation des cités sociales en montrant comment elle a déconcerté autant les préjugés à son encontre que les espérances dont elle était officiellement porteuse. Quel est alors le bénéfice principal de toute cette action ? Celui de faire pénétrer la ville dans l’espace de la cité, de dissoudre son étrangeté aux yeux des autres habitants, bref, de lever ce voile qui donne à croire que la question des cités se cantonne à la périphérie des villes.

Book Urban Renewal and Public Housing in Canada

Download or read book Urban Renewal and Public Housing in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    quoi sert la r  novation urbaine

Download or read book quoi sert la r novation urbaine written by France. Plan Urbanisme construction architecture and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A quoi sert la rénovation urbaine ? À résoudre le problème des banlieues en y instaurant une mixité sociale à la faveur d'une transformation de leur paysage urbain. Mais si les mutations de celui-ci sont impressionnantes, on ne peut pas dire qu'il en aille de même pour la composition sociale des cités ni que les problèmes des banlieues - le chômage, l'échec scolaire, la délinquance - soient en cours de résolution. Faut-il voir alors dans cette politique un exercice illusoire ? Les témoignages des acteurs et des observateurs rassemblés dans cet ouvrage dégagent plutôt un mélange de satisfaction et d'inquiétude. Comme si la rénovation avait permis de faire pénétrer la ville dans le quartier mais qu'il restait à faire en sorte que ses habitants puissent pénétrer la ville." 4ème de couverture.

Book Revue de L Universit   D Ottawa

Download or read book Revue de L Universit D Ottawa written by University of Ottawa and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: