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Housing Estates in Europe Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges /

This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their...

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Other Authors: Hess, Daniel Baldwin. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tammaru, Tiit. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), van Ham, Maarten. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:The Urban Book Series,
Subjects:
Urban geography.
Economic development.
Social change.
Sociology, Urban.
Europe—Economic conditions.
Demography.
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).
Development and Social Change.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
European Economics.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92813-5
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Role of Large Housing Estates in Past, Present and Future Change in European Cities
  • PART 1: Four Thematic Lenses for Viewing the Trajectories of Large Housing Estates
  • PART 2: Case Studies of Housing Estates in European Metropolitan Area
  • Western Europe (Changing Context, Policies and Estates in the UK: The Birmingham Example / The Socio-economic Evolution of Large Housing Estates in Brussels / Large Housing Estates in a Divided City: Berling's Pallenbauten and Wohnblöcke / Large Housing Estates in the Paris Region: The Local Challenge of Internal Social Mixing in Orly)
  • Eastern Europe (Persistence or Change: Social and Physical Challenges of Housing Estates in Budapest / Housing Estates in Prague: Long-term Development and Current Situation / Mass Housing Inherited from State Socialism in Tartu, Estonia / Ursynów: Emergence and Evolution of Warsaw's Largest Dormitory Suburb)
  • Northern Europe (Equity or Net Gains? Tenure Structure, Perceived Social Disorder and Policy Challenges in the Post-WWII Housing Estates of Helsinki region / Large Housing Estates in Stockholm: Do Initial Conditions Matter?)
  • Southern Europe (Social and Ethnic Transformations of Large Social Housing Estates in Milan: From Modernity to Marginalisation / Large housing Estates in Athens: An Uncommon Form of Social Housing Within a Residual Welfare State
  • Conclusion (Assessing the Evidence: Past and Present Trajectories of Europe's Large Housing Estates, and a Comment on the Future)
  • Index.

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