TY - CHAP
T1 - Lessons Learned from a Pan-European Study of Large Housing Estates
T2 - Origin, Trajectories of Change and Future Prospects
AU - Baldwin Hess, Daniel
AU - Tammaru, Tiit
AU - van Ham, Maarten
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Mid-twentieth-century large housing estates, which can be found all over Europe, were once seen as modernist urban and social utopias that would solve a variety of urban problems. Since their construction, many large housing estates have become poverty concentrating neighbourhoods, often with large shares of immigrants. In Northern and Western Europe, an overlap of ethnic, social and spatial disadvantages have formed as ethnic minorities, often living on low incomes, settle in the most affordable segments of the housing market. The aim of this introductory chapter is to synthesise empirical evidence about the changing fortunes of large housing estates in Europe. The evidence comes from 14 cities—Athens, Berlin, Birmingham, Brussels, Budapest, Bucharest, Helsinki, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Moscow, Prague, Stockholm and Tallinn—and is synthesised into 10 takeaway messages. Findings suggest that large housing estates are now seen as more attractive in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe. The chapter also provides a diverse set of visions and concrete intervention measures that may help to improve the fortunes of large housing estates and their residents.
AB - Mid-twentieth-century large housing estates, which can be found all over Europe, were once seen as modernist urban and social utopias that would solve a variety of urban problems. Since their construction, many large housing estates have become poverty concentrating neighbourhoods, often with large shares of immigrants. In Northern and Western Europe, an overlap of ethnic, social and spatial disadvantages have formed as ethnic minorities, often living on low incomes, settle in the most affordable segments of the housing market. The aim of this introductory chapter is to synthesise empirical evidence about the changing fortunes of large housing estates in Europe. The evidence comes from 14 cities—Athens, Berlin, Birmingham, Brussels, Budapest, Bucharest, Helsinki, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Moscow, Prague, Stockholm and Tallinn—and is synthesised into 10 takeaway messages. Findings suggest that large housing estates are now seen as more attractive in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe. The chapter also provides a diverse set of visions and concrete intervention measures that may help to improve the fortunes of large housing estates and their residents.
KW - European cities
KW - Housing estates
KW - Neighbourhood planning
KW - Residential planning
KW - Urban change
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-92813-5_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-92813-5_1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-319-92812-8
T3 - The Urban Book Series
SP - 3
EP - 31
BT - Housing Estates in Europe
A2 - Baldwin Hess, Daniel
A2 - Tammaru, Tiit
A2 - van Ham, Maarten
PB - Springer
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -