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Restructuring large housing estates in Europe

Introduction

All over Europe post-Second World War large-scale housing estates face physical, economic, social and cultural problems. This book presents the key findings of a major EU-funded research programme into the restructuring of twenty-nine large-scale housing estates in Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe.

Description

Policy and practice between and within the ten countries studied - UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, and France - is compared. While existing literature focuses on the negative aspects of large-scale housing estates, this book starts from the premise that the estates can be transformed into attractive places to live and focuses on the possibilities of sustainability and renewal through social, physical and policy actions.

Specifically, the book:

explains the origins and nature of contemporary problems on the estates;
examines which policy objectives, measures and processes have had the greatest impact;
assesses and compares a wide range of local, regional and national initiatives;
discusses current ideas and philosophies, such as 'place making' and 'collaborative planning' that are likely to influence future policy and practice;
provides good practice guidance for neighbourhood sustainability and renewal.

The book is written by a multi-national team of experts and drawing on original fieldwork, the book provides comparative insights into the present and future position of large-scale housing estates in Europe.

Publication date

30/11/2005

Researcher

Ronald van Kempen, Karien Dekker, Stephen Hall and Iván Tosics

Article info
ISBN: 9781861347756

Links

Click here to order the book "Restructuring large housing estates in Europe"Click here to visit the website of the Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Housing

Keywords

Housing policy