Full Description
The book Modelling Social Housing delves into the intricate relationship between everyday social life and the architectural landscapes of social housing across European cities.
Focusing on social housing across multiple temporal and socio-cultural European urban settings, the book traces how the confluence of distributed knowledges, technological resources, and architectural histories may have considerable effects across different scales, ranging from everyday interactions to welfare planning and economic policies. To capture these intricate socio-spatial relations, the book introduces the concept of 'social urban modelling' as a novel analytical approach to social housing research. Spanning historical trajectories, contemporary challenges and future potentials, this book brings together scholars from diverse fields including architecture, history, anthropology, sociology, geography and art history. Through examinations of architectural designs, urban planning assemblages, contemporary redevelopment projects and everyday appropriations by residents, this book unveils the intricate layers of social housing dynamics in European cities. From the adoption of Mediterranean and Islamic architectural typologies in mid-20th century Denmark to the innovative bureaucratic structures of the London County Council in post-war Britain, each chapter provides new insights into the spatial and social transformations of European social housing. Through empirical cases from across Europe, we ask: How might resident-driven initiatives reshape urban landscapes? What are the implications of densification processes on social housing estates? And how do private investors influence the social fabric of these communities?
With its timely interdisciplinary exploration of the modelling capacities of social housing estates, this book will provide an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in housing studies, urban development and architectural history.
Contents
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List of contributors
1. Introduction: Exploring the Modelling Capacities of Social Housing
Mikkel Høghøj, Mette My Madsen, Anne Corlin and Morten Nielsen
Part I: Inventing and implementing new models of housing
2. A Danish Kasbah? The Mediterranean-Islamic Homes and Town Centres as Models of Danish Dense-Low Housing (1950s-1980s)
Dorian Bianco
3. Everything in Its Right Place: Henry Roberts' Model Houses and the Fabrication of the Model Family
Joshua Tan
4. Planning, Play, and Participation: The Extra-Parliamentary Residents' Playground at Høje Gladsaxe (1969) as a Model for Sociospatial Transformation and Engaging Urban Citizenship
Martin Søberg
Part II: Scales and complexity of planning and design
5. Model Assemblages and the Multiple Potentials of Stockholm's 1952 General Plan
Sued Ferreira da Silva and Johan Pries
6. An Architecture of Paperwork: The London County Council's Collaborative Bureaucracy
Jesse Honsa
7. Ecocritical Domo-graphy
Antonio Bernacchi and Alicia Lazzaroni
Part III: Contemporary projects of intervention and transformation
8. Artistic Interventions in Large-scale Urban Transformation Projects
Line Marie Bruun Jespersen and Rune Chr. Bach
9. The Role of Private Investors and Developers in the Social Transformation of Non-Profit Housing Estates
Anne Clementsen
10. Reconfiguring Orders of Worth: A Comparative Analysis of Densification Processes on Social Housing Estates in Denmark and Japan
Nicola C. Thomas
Part IV: Everyday appropriations and resident practices
11. Mimicking Municipal Models: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Resident-Driven Development in Forced Regeneration of Danish Non-Profit Housing
Adam Veng
12. Whose Place is it? Remodelling and Reappropriating Danish Social Housing
Marie Stender
13. Social Housing Beyond the City: Migration and Remote Productions of Welfare on the Danish Island of Lolland
Trine Brinkmann
14. Epilogue: Models that Make us Act
Albena Yaneva
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