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Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe
Ronald Van Kempen
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Description for Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Kempen, Ronald van; Dekker, Karien; Hall, Stephen. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSB; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861347756
SKU
V9781861347756
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Ref
99-50
About Ronald Van Kempen
The editors are specialists in housing and urban research at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Birmingham University in the UK and the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest, Hungary.
Reviews for Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe
"I am convinced that this will be a well used book, and deservedly so. The issues that are explored here, not to mention the richness of the empirical material that is provided, will be of interest to policy makers, community activists and students at undergraduate and postgraduate level across a range of social and public policy, urban sociology and built ... Read more