Post-War Middle-Class Housing
eBook - PDF

Post-War Middle-Class Housing

Models, Construction and Change

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  1. 446 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Post-War Middle-Class Housing

Models, Construction and Change

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About this book

Post-war middle-class housing played a key role in constructing and transforming the cities of Europe and America, deeply impacting today's urban landscape. And yet, this stock has been underrepresented in a literature mostly focused on public housing and the work of a few master architects.
This book is the first attempt to explore such housing from an international perspective. It provides a comparative insight into the processes of construction, occupation and transformation of residential architecture built for the middle-classes in 12 different countries between the 1950s and 1970s. It investigates the role of models, actors and policies that shaped the middle-class city, tracing geographies, chronologies and forms of development that often cross national frontiers.
This study is particularly relevant today within the context of «fragilization» which affects the middle-classes, challenging, as it does, the urban role played by this residential heritage in the light of technological obsolescence, trends in patterns of homeownership, as well as social and generational changes.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface (Monique Eleb)
  4. Editors’ Note
  5. Introduction: The Middle-Class Project: Designing New Ways of Living in the Post-War City (Gaia Caramellino)
  6. I. Cultures, Standards, Practices
  7. II. Policies, Processes, Actors
  8. III. House Biographies
  9. IV. Scenarios
  10. Afterword: Getting our hands into the flesh of the contemporary city (Federico Zanfi)
  11. Notes on the Authors
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index of Names
  14. Index of Places