Restructuring large housing estates in Europe / [electronic resource]
Kempen, Ronald van,editor.
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. 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; and provides good practice guidance for neighbourhood sustainability and renewal. Written by a multi-national team of experts and drawing on original fieldwork, the book provides unique comparative insights into the present and future position of large-scale housing estates in Europe. Restructuring large housing estates in Europe is an invaluable resource for a wide audience of academics, researchers, students and policy makers in the fields of housing, urban studies, community studies, regeneration, planning and social policy. The editors are specialists in housing and urban research at the Universities of Utrecht in the Netherlands, Birmingham in the UK and the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest, Hungary.
Cover; RESTRUCTURING LARGE HOUSING ESTATES IN EUROPE; Contents; List of tables, figures and boxes; Tables; Figures; Boxes; Preface; Notes on contributors; ONE - Restructuring large housing estates in European cities: an introduction; Large housing estates in European cities: an historical note; Large housing estates in Europe: the contemporary challenges; Place making, large housing estates, and looking ahead; The context of this book; The structure of this book; TWO - Large housing estates in Europe: a contemporary overview; Introduction; Large housing estates in Europe; Conclusions
THREE - Place making and large estates: theory and practiceIntroduction; Diversity, fragmentation, and uncertainty in the contemporary world; 'Communicative' planning theory; Power and governance; Conclusions; FOUR - Large housing estates in their historical context; Large housing estates: origins, past and present; Changes in patterns of space and use; Problems and perspectives of large housing estates: some examples; The Eastern estates and transition processes; Conclusions; FIVE - Privatisation and after; Introduction; Types of privatisation; The policy process; Who benefits?
New management arrangementsImpacts and outcomes; Problems and responses; SIX - Tackling social cohesion in ethnically diverse estates; Introduction; What is social cohesion?; Policies aiming at social cohesion in ethnically diverse estates; Conclusion; SEVEN - Social mix and social perspectives in post-war housing estates; Introduction; Housing and social mix policies in Europe; Large housing estates: definitions and data sources; Demographic and ethnic structure of the housing estates; Social mix in housing estates; Housing estates and social opportunity; Social mix and social opportunities
ConclusionsEIGHT - On physical determinism and displacement effects; Problems and questions; Physical interventions to solve social problems; Displacement through housing restructuring; Displacement through restructuring: empirical indications in the municipality of Amsterdam; Conclusions; NINE - Who leaves Sweden's large housing estates?; Introduction; Selective migration in European large housing estates: some RESTATE evidence; Brief descriptions of the estates; Quantitative analysis of out-migration flows; Policy implications; TEN - Demolition of large housing estates: an overview
IntroductionTheoretical reasons for demolition; Reasons for demolition in practice; Theoretical goals of urban regeneration; Goals of urban regeneration in practice; Demolition and the question of housing for people on low incomes: a confrontation; Conclusion; ELEVEN - Building partnerships in Spanish and Italian regeneration processes; Introduction; Theoretical discussion of the concept of urban governance and partnership; Creation of partnerships: the political and social context; Actors' involvement and partnerships; Development of organisational structures and procedures
Establishment of multi-level links for partnership financing
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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. 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; and provides good practice guidance for neighbourhood sustainability and renewal. Written by a multi-national team of experts and drawing on original fieldwork, the book provides unique comparative insights into the present and future position of large-scale housing estates in Europe. Restructuring large housing estates in Europe is an invaluable resource for a wide audience of academics, researchers, students and policy makers in the fields of housing, urban studies, community studies, regeneration, planning and social policy. The editors are specialists in housing and urban research at the Universities of Utrecht in the Netherlands, Birmingham in the UK and the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest, Hungary.
Planned communities
Urban renewal