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Social Housing and Urban Renewal

A Cross-National Perspective

Av Paul Watt, Peer Smets

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This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation tosocial rental housing. Social housing estates – as developed either by governments (publichousing) or not-for-profit agencies – became a prominent feature of the 20th century urbanlandscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Manyestates were built as part of earlier urban renewal, ‘slum clearance’ programs especially inthe post-World War 2 heyday of the Keynesian welfare state. During the last three decades,however, Western governments have launched high-profile ‘new urban renewal’ programswhose aim has been to change the image and status of social housing estates away frombeing zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other social problems. This latest phaseof urban renewal – often called ‘regeneration’ – has involved widespread demolition ofsocial housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure housing developments inwhich poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and social mixing of poortenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. Academic critical urbanists, as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominantpolicy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it asa key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate newsocio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. Thisbook examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes andimpacts of urban renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The bookalso looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of social housing to consider how renewal isoccurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited social housing sectors suchas Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-08-15
  • Mått: 165 x 240 x 34 mm
  • Vikt: 948 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 512
  • Förlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
  • ISBN: 9781787141254
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Paul Watt is Reader in Urban Studies at the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Recent publications include, Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs, co-edited with Peer Smets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy?, co-edited with Phil Cohen(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Peer Smets is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Recent publications include, Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South, co-edited with Jan Bredenoord and Paul Van Lindert (Earthscan/Routledge, 2014)

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The 12 essays in this volume consider the impact of urban renewal on social housing in European, American, and Australian cities, as well as in Japan, Chile, and South Africa. Anthropologists, sociologists, urban studies specialists, and other researchers from these countries concentrate on the social processes and impacts of contemporary social housing renewal, particularly the themes of neighborhood and community, poverty and social exclusion, social mixing, mixed-tenure developments, neighborhood effects, territorial stigmatization, demolition, displacement, urban governance, state-led gentrification, and neoliberal urbanism. They examine how and why renewal occurs in different urban spatial contexts and how residents view and experience urban renewal, as well as the views of urban renewal officials and politicians. The book is based on a conference session, “Public/Social Rental Housing and Urban Renewal: New Inequalities and Insecurities?”, at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, held in July 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. Seven chapters are based on papers from the session.

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