Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
Please note that books with a 10-20 working days delivery time may not arrive before Christmas.
Please note that books with a 10-20 working days delivery time may not arrive before Christmas.
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
automatic-update
B01=Paul Watt
B01=Peer Smets
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AMVD
Category=JFFB
Category=RPC
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch

Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective

English

This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies became a prominent feature of the 20th century urban landscape in Northern European cities, but also in North America and Australia. Many estates were built as part of earlier urban renewal, slum clearance programs especially in the 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 programs whose aim has been to change the image and status of social housing estates away from being zones of concentrated poverty, crime and other social problems. This latest phase of urban renewal often called regeneration has involved widespread demolition of social housing estates and their replacement with mixed-tenure housing developments in which poverty deconcentration, reduced territorial stigmatization, and social mixing of poor tenants and wealthy homeowners are explicit policy goals. 
Academic critical urbanists, as well as housing activists, have however queried this dominant policy narrative regarding contemporary urban renewal, preferring instead to regard it as a key part of neoliberal urban restructuring and state-led gentrification which generate new socio-spatial inequalities and insecurities through displacement and exclusion processes. This book examines this debate through original, in-depth case study research on the processes and impacts of urban renewal on social housing in European, U.S. and Australian cities. The book also looks beyond the Western urban heartlands of social housing to consider how renewal is occurring, and with what effects, in countries with historically limited social housing sectors such as Japan, Chile, Turkey and South Africa. See more
Current price €50.39
Original price €55.99
Save 10%
Age Group_Uncategorizedautomatic-updateB01=Paul WattB01=Peer SmetsCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=AMVDCategory=JFFBCategory=RPCCOP=United KingdomDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€50 to €100PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Weight: 866g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Nov 2019
  • Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781838679330

About

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)

Customer Reviews

Be the first to write a review
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept