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Mass Housing in Europe

Multiple Faces of Development, Change and Response

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Rob Rowlands

    1. Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

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  2. Sako Musterd

    1. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Ronald Kempen

    1. Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Mass Housing Estates on Different Tracks: An Introduction to the Book

    1. Mass Housing Estates on Different Tracks: An Introduction to the Book

      • Sako Musterd, Ronald van Kempen, Rob Rowlands
      Pages 1-19

    2. Theories of Neighbourhood Change and Decline: Their Significance for Post-WWII Large Housing Estates in European Cities

      • Ellen van Beckhoven, Gideon Bolt, Ronald van Kempen
      Pages 20-50

  3. Different Perception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Resident Satisfaction in Post-WWII Housing Estates

      • Karien Dekker, Ronald van Kempen
      Pages 53-76

    3. Estates of Content: Regeneration and Neighbourhood Satisfaction

      • Wouter P. C. van Gent
      Pages 77-100

    4. A Resident’s View on Social Mix

      • Sako Musterd
      Pages 101-127

  4. Difference in Place

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Public Space in Large Housing Estates

      • Richard Sendi, Manuel Aalbers, Marcele Trigueiro
      Pages 131-156

    3. Effects of Physical Measures on Social Cohesion: Case Studies in the Netherlands and Slovenia

      • Karien Dekker, Maša Filipovič
      Pages 157-188

  5. Difference in Policy and Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Large Housing Estates, Policy Interventions and the Implications for Policy Transfer

      • Alan Murie, Ronald van Kempen
      Pages 191-212

    3. Local Participation in Large Housing Estates: A Comparison of the Netherlands, Spain and Hungary

      • Ellen van Beckhoven, Brechtje van Boxmeer, Hanna Szemző
      Pages 213-234

    4. Whose Regeneration? The Spectre of Revanchist Regeneration

      • Rob Rowlands, Alan Murie
      Pages 235-264

    5. Deepening Crisis or Homes for the Future? Some Reflections and Implications for Policies in Large Housing Estates

      • Ronald van Kempen, Sako Musterd, Rob Rowlands
      Pages 265-278

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 279-285
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About this book

Based on empirical research from 29 major postwar housing estates in 15 European cities, this collection explores mass housing experiments, examining the problems, policy responses and residents' everyday experiences in the estates in the context of change and regeneration.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

    Rob Rowlands

  • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Sako Musterd

  • Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

    Ronald Kempen

About the editors

ROB ROWLANDS is Lecturer at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, the University of Birmingham, UK RONALD VAN KEMPEN is Professor of Urban Geography at the Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands SAKO MUSTERD is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands MANUEL AALBERS is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, the Netherlands ELLEN VAN BECKHOVEN worked at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University within the RESATE project, and now works at the Municipality of Utrecht, the Netherlands GIDEON BOLT is Lecturer at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands BRECHTJE VAN BOXMEER worked on the RESTATE project, Utrecht University, the Netherlands KARIEN DEKKER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University, the Netherlands WOUTER VAN GENT is Researcher and doctoral student at Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ALAN MURIE is Emeritus Professor of Urban& Regional Studies at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK RICHARD SENDI is Senior Researcher at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia MARCELE TRIGUEIRO worked at the RESTATE project, Utrecht University, the Netherlands MA A FILIPOVI? works at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia HANNA SZEMZ? works at the Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary

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