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Housing Estates in Europe

Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges

Editors:

  1. Daniel Baldwin Hess

    1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

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  2. Tiit Tammaru

    1. Department of Geography, Centre for Migration and Urban Studies, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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  3. Maarten van Ham

    1. OTB—Research for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  • Focuses on people-based and placed-based complex challenges of housing estates

  • Addresses issues from a new perspective previously unexplored in scholarly literature

  • Thoroughly investigates the role of large housing estates in poverty and ethnic concentrations

Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  4. Case Studies of Housing Estates in European Metropolitan Areas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Exceptional Social Housing in a Residual Welfare State: Housing Estates in Athens, Greece

      • George Kandylis, Thomas Maloutas, Nikolina Myofa
      Pages 77-98Open Access

    3. Large Housing Estates of Berlin, Germany

      • Florian Urban
      Pages 99-120Open Access

    7. Persistence or Change: Divergent Trajectories of Large Housing Estates in Budapest, Hungary

      • Zoltán Kovács, Tamás Egedy, Balázs Szabó
      Pages 191-214Open Access

    8. Experience of a Preventive Experiment: Spatial Social Mixing in Post-World War II Housing Estates in Helsinki, Finland

      • Mari Vaattovaara, Anssi Joutsiniemi, Matti Kortteinen, Mats Stjernberg, Teemu Kemppainen
      Pages 215-240Open Access

    9. The Diversity of Trajectories of Large Housing Estates in Madrid, Spain

      • Pedro Uceda, Daniel Sorando, Jesús Leal
      Pages 241-263Open Access

    11. Path-Dependent Development of Mass Housing in Moscow, Russia

      • Maria Gunko, Polina Bogacheva, Andrey Medvedev, Ilya Kashnitsky
      Pages 289-311Open Access

    12. Impoverishment and Social Fragmentation in Housing Estates of the Paris Region, France

      • Christine Lelévrier, Talia Melic
      Pages 313-338Open Access

    13. Long-term Development and Current Socio-Spatial Differentiation of Housing Estates in Prague, Czechia

      • Martin Ouředníček, Petra Špačková, Lucie Pospíšilová
      Pages 339-359Open Access
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About this book

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.

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Keywords

  • Geography of Large Housing Estates
  • Urban Challenges
  • European Cities
  • Urban Unrest
  • Socio-Economic Segregation
  • Social Problems and housing
  • Planning Interventions
  • Urban Population Inequalities
  • Regional and Cultural Studies
  • restructuring housing estates
  • Open Access
  • urban geography and urbanism
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Reviews

“I would undoubtedly recommend the book to anyone interested in the legacy of modernist planning.” (Adam Radzimski, Eurasian Geography and Economics, March 2, 2020)

“This new book by Hess, Tammaru and Van Ham expands on [an] earlier project by adding more and newer evidence from an even larger number of countries and by identifying successful policies and programs that maintain the quality of these large housing estates as positive places to live for low- and middle-income households. I would recommend this book to academics who work on issues like segregation and concentration of socioeconomically deprived populations in urban space specifically.” (Karien Dekker, Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 42 (1), 2020)

“I strongly recommend [this book] to housing scholars and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic. The editors and the pub­lisher, Springer Open, deserve credit for publishing two attractive and useful books that address the breadth and depth of issues related to housing estate revitalization across Europe. The numerous photographs (color as well as black-white) throughout the book helped me to understand changes in the design of European housing estates—the good as well as the bad.” (David P. Varady, Geography Research Forum, Vol. 39, 2019)

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

    Daniel Baldwin Hess

  • Department of Geography, Centre for Migration and Urban Studies, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Tiit Tammaru

  • OTB—Research for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Maarten van Ham

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About the editors

The three co-editors are experts in urban geography, city planning, urban morphology, social exclusion, and segregation and inequity. They are currently pursuing research about change in European cities and urban neighborhoods with the most intractable challenges.

Daniel Baldwin Hess is Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is also Visiting Scholar and former Director of the Centre for Migration and Urban Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia, where he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. His research contributes new pathways for understanding the complex socio-economic and ethnic landscape of cities and spatial inequalities. He is a former Fulbright Scholar at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia and winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

Tiit Tammaru is Professor in the Centre for Migration and Studies at the University of Tartu, in Estonia. He is the lead editor of Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities: east meets west (Routledge, 2016). Tammaru is also the Head of the Centre for Estonian Diaspora Studies and has received both the Estonian Science Award in social sciences in 2010 and the Natural Sciences Award in 2011. His fields of interest include socio-spatial inequality, geographical changes in urban regions, governing urban diversity and social mobility.

Maarten van Ham is Professor of Urban Renewal and Head of the Neighbourhood Change and Housing Research Group at OTB - Research for the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands. Van Ham is a population geographer with a background in economic and urban geography. He is a Research Fellow at IZA (a large economic research institute in Germany) and Professor of Geography at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Since 2014, he is head of the ERC project DEPRIVEDHOODS, a 5-year research project on neighbourhood effects

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Housing Estates in Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges

  • Editors: Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham

  • Series Title: The Urban Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92813-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92812-8Published: 28 August 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06522-5Published: 20 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92813-5Published: 14 August 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2365-757X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 424

  • Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Sociology, Development Studies, European Economics, Population and Demography

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