Housing Estates in Europe

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• Publisher: Springer Open
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9783319928135
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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 architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood amenities, and metropolitan connectivity? How do housing estates contribute to the urban mosaic of neighborhoods by ethnic and socio-economic status? What types of policies and planning initiatives have been implemented in order to prevent the social downgrading of housing estates? The collection of chapters in this book addresses these questions from a new perspective previously unexplored in scholarly literature. The social aspects of housing estates are thoroughly investigated (including socio-demographic and economic characteristics of current and past inhabitants; ethnicity and segregation patterns; population dynamics; etc.), and the physical composition of housing estates is described in significant detail (including building materials; building form; architectural and landscape design; built environment characteristics; etc.). This book is timely because the recent global economic crisis and Europe's immigration crisis demand a thorough investigation of the role large housing estates play in poverty and ethnic concentration. Through case studies of housing estates in 14 European centers, the book also identifies policy measures that have been used to address challenges in housing estates throughout Europe.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Lessons Learned from a Pan-European Study of Large Housing Estates: Origin, Trajectories of Change and Future Prospects
• Thematic Lenses for Scholarly Inquiry
• 2 Beyond an Ugly Appearance: Understanding the Physical Design and Built Environment of Large Housing Estates
• 3 Who Is to Blame for the Decline of Large Housing Estates? An Exploration of Socio-Demographic and Ethnic Change
• Case Studies of Housing Estates in European Metropolitan Areas
• 4 Exceptional Social Housing in a Residual Welfare State: Housing Estates in Athens, Greece
• 5 Large Housing Estates of Berlin, Germany
• 6 Decline and Response? Lifecycle Change and Housing Estates in Birmingham, England
• 7 Sprouted All Around: The Emergence and Evolution of Housing Estates in Brussels, Belgium
• 8 The Many (Still) Functional Housing Estates of Bucharest, Romania: A Viable Housing Provider in Europe’s Densest Capital City
• 9 Persistence or Change: Divergent Trajectories of Large Housing Estates in Budapest, Hungary
• 10 Experience of a Preventive Experiment: Spatial Social Mixing in Post-World War II Housing Estates in Helsinki, Finland
• 11 The Diversity of Trajectories of Large Housing Estates in Madrid, Spain
• 12 Social and Ethnic Transformation of Large Social Housing Estates in Milan, Italy: From Modernity to Marginalisation
• 13 Path-Dependent Development of Mass Housing in Moscow, Russia
• 14 Impoverishment and Social Fragmentation in Housing Estates of the Paris Region, France
• 15 Long-term Development and Current Socio-Spatial Differentiation of Housing Estates in Prague, Czechia
• 16 The Stockholm Estates—A Tale of the Importance of Initial Conditions, Macroeconomic Dependencies, Tenure and Immigration
• 17 Population Shifts and Urban Policies in Housing Estates of Tallinn, Estonia
• Index