Mass Housing in Europe Multiple Faces of Development, Change and Response [Hardcover]

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.Preface Mass Housing Estates on Different Tracks: An Introduction to the Book; S.Musterd, R.van Kempen ?& R.Rowlands Theories of Neighbourhood Change and Decline: Their Significance for Post-WWII Large Housing Estates in European Cities; E.van Beckhoven, G.Bolt & R.van Kempen PART I: DIFFERENT PERCEPTIONS Resident Satisfaction in Large Post-WWII Large Housing Estates; K.Dekker & R.van Kempen Estates of Content: Regeneration and Neighbourhood Satisfaction; W.P.C.van Gent A Resident's View on Social Mix; S.Musterd PART II: DIFFERENCE IN PLACE Public Space in Large Housing Estates;? R.Sendi, M.B.Aalbers & M.Trigueiro Effects of Physical Measures on Social Cohesion: Case Studies in the Netherlands and Slovenia;? K.Dekker ?& M.Filipovi? PART III: DIFFERENCE IN POLICY AND APPROACH Large Housing Estates, Policy Interventions and the Implications for Policy Transfer;? A.Murie ?& R.van Kempen Local Participation in Large Housing Estates: A Comparison of the Netherlands, Spain and Hungary;? E.van Beckhoven, B.van Boxmeer & H.Szemz? Whose Regeneration? The Spectre of Revanchist Regeneration; R.Rowlands & A.Murie Deepening Crisis or Homes for the Future? Some Reflections and Implications for Policies in Large Housing Estates;? R.van Kempen, S.Musterd ?& R.RowlandsROB ROWLANDS is Lecturer at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, the University of Birmingham, UKRONALD VAN KEMPEN is Professor of Urban Geography at the Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht, the NetherlandsSAKO MUSTERD is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsMANUEL AALBERS is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and lsP