"Samuel Mockbee launched the Rural Studio in 1992 to create homes and community buildings for poor people while offering hands-on education stressing community service. Since his death in 2001, the Rural Studio has continued to thrive. With text by Andrew Oppenheimer Dean and ph…
"The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor." …
This report looks at good practice in community development. It is the outcome of a meeting sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and held at the Bellagio Center, Italy in November 2009. It includes innovative practices and policies from ten countries.
Large housing estates: for some people these three words symbolise all that is wrong in urban planning. Large is wrong, because many people prefer a living surrounding that reflects the human scale. Housing as a single function is wrong, because mixed areas are livelier. And est…
Large housing estates: for some people these three words symbolise all that is wrong in urban planning. Large is wrong, because many people prefer a living surrounding that reflects the human scale. Housing as a single function is wrong, because mixed areas are livelier. And est…
This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of mass housing - high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the …
Pre-1914: the long mobilisation -- 1914-1945 : the maturing of mass housing in the age of emergencies -- Postwar mass housing : an introductory overview -- Housing by authority : post-war state interventions in the 'Anglosphere' -- Council powers : postwar public housing in Brit…
"This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of mass housing - high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the…
"This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of mass housing - high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the…
"This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of mass housing - high-rise, low-rise, state-funded, and built in the…