Urban living lab for local regeneration : beyond participation in large scale social housing estates 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. Introduction: Framing living labs in large scale social housing estates in Europe Part 1: A critical overview on urban living labs in large scale social housing estates Beyond a buzzword: Situated participation through socially oriented urban living labs Governing with urban labs Urban living labs: Insights for institutionally promoted urban policies Part 2: Positioning research(ers) in large scale social estates Beyond the presence: Dwelling with people and with their places 1 460 days of love and hate: An ethnographic account of a layered job The inside and outside of high rise social housing: The broken institution From a community of practice to a community of planning: The case of the Sansheroes network in the San Siro neighbourhood in Milan Part 3: Approaching space in large–scale social housing estates Marginalization through mobility and porosity How social housing dwellers see and live the city Peterbos: Living in the park inhabiting the city Participation and the architect: Creative partnership or communication breakdown Confusing the spatial with the social: Can ethnography offer a way out.