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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 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.
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…