Mass Housing in Europe

Based on empirical research from 29 major postwar housing estates in 15 European cities, this collection explores mass housing experiments, examining the problems, policy responses and residents' everyday experiences in the estates in the context of change and regeneration.

Auteur

ROB ROWLANDS is Lecturer at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, the University of Birmingham, UK RONALD VAN KEMPEN is Professor of Urban Geography at the Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands SAKO MUSTERD is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands MANUEL AALBERS is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, the Netherlands ELLEN VAN BECKHOVEN worked at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University within the RESATE project, and now works at the Municipality of Utrecht, the Netherlands GIDEON BOLT is Lecturer at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands BRECHTJE VAN BOXMEER worked on the RESTATE project, Utrecht University, the Netherlands KARIEN DEKKER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, the Netherlands WOUTER VAN GENT is Researcher and doctoral student at Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ALAN MURIE is Emeritus Professor of Urban& Regional Studies at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK RICHARD SENDI is Senior Researcher at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia MARCELE TRIGUEIRO worked at the RESTATE project, Utrecht University, the Netherlands MA A FILIPOVI? works at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia HANNA SZEMZ? works at the Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary

Contenu
Preface Mass Housing Estates on Different Tracks: An Introduction to the Book; S.Musterd, R.van Kempen & R.Rowlands Theories of Neighbourhood Change and Decline: Their Significance for Post-WWII Large Housing Estates in European Cities; E.van Beckhoven, G.Bolt & R.van Kempen PART I: DIFFERENT PERCEPTIONS Resident Satisfaction in Large Post-WWII Large Housing Estates; K.Dekker & R.van Kempen Estates of Content: Regeneration and Neighbourhood Satisfaction; W.P.C.van Gent A Resident's View on Social Mix; S.Musterd PART II: DIFFERENCE IN PLACE Public Space in Large Housing Estates; R.Sendi, M.B.Aalbers & M.Trigueiro Effects of Physical Measures on Social Cohesion: Case Studies in the Netherlands and Slovenia; K.Dekker & M.Filipovi? PART III: DIFFERENCE IN POLICY AND APPROACH Large Housing Estates, Policy Interventions and the Implications for Policy Transfer; A.Murie & R.van Kempen Local Participation in Large Housing Estates: A Comparison of the Netherlands, Spain and Hungary; E.van Beckhoven, B.van Boxmeer & H.Szemz? Whose Regeneration? The Spectre of Revanchist Regeneration; R.Rowlands & A.Murie Deepening Crisis or Homes for the Future? Some Reflections and Implications for Policies in Large Housing Estates; R.van Kempen, S.Musterd & R.Rowlands