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HousingSolutions through Design explores housing design with a special focus onaffordability. It gives the perspectives of academics who research and teach on housing; professionals who design and build, and students who are learning.The book foregrounds innovative approaches of the designers of today andtomorrow.Thisbook is the second in the Housing the Future Series, one of the aims of whichis to collate a broad sample of the work being done from a design perspectivein universities across the world on the issue of affordable housing. This very‘real’ engagement with the issues of housing affordability is a key componentof this series and is why the series invites practitioners to discuss theirwork. In Housing Solutions through Design,those practitioners include an award-winning commercial practice from the UK,Shed KM, and two of the most important reference points in the area of housingaffordability and community development internationally – the world-renownedHerman Hertzberger, from the Netherlands, and the US-based but internationallyactive Habitat for Humanity. The inclusion of the work of such practices is notsimply important because of their undoubted international status: it isimportant because of the work they do and the role models they represent for ageneration of architects and designers who, in the coming years, will be facedwith the need – and the opportunity – to develop new approaches to housingdesign.
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Global Dimensions in Housing
Approaches in Design and Theory from Europe to the Pacific Rim
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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InLondon, a leading capital of global finance, there is a chronic shortage ofaffordable housing. The crisis is at levels not seen since World War II. InBeijing, capital of the twenty-first century’s political powerhouse, thedisplacement of long-standing communities is a daily occurrence. In Mumbai, thebiggest health risk faced by the city today has been identified as overcrowdedhousing, while in São Paulo, football’s 2014 World Cup took place against abackdrop of community unrest and the chronic living conditions of the poor. Theprivate sector, the state and residents themselves are searching for solutions.Whether housing refugees in conflict areas, providing safe water to thehouseholds in the developing world or ensuring key workers can live in thecities they support in the West, the question of housing is not only global,but critical. Thisbook, the third and final in the ‘Housing the Future’ series, is inspired by theneed to deal with a criticalissue at a critical time – the provision of affordable and decenthousing. Whilst the focus of the series has been on design approaches aroundhousing, it will become clear in reading the diverse contributions in this bookthat design cannot, and perhaps should not, be isolated from the social,economic, political and cultural issues that are inevitably in play when wediscuss housing. On that basis, as we will see in this book, the provision ofadequate housing can be considered as one of the most important political problemstoday: an issue played out against a background of disparate policyinterventions, resistances and conflicting aspirations; an issue involvingarchitects, planners, developers, sociologists, artists, housing associations,community representatives, policy makers and more. Thebook comes out of the Housing –Critical Futures research programme led by theacademic non-profit organisation AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society).It has been produced in collaboration with Swinburne University.