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Estates on the edge : the social consequences of mass housing in Northern Europe / Anne Power.

Title
Estates on the edge : the social consequences of mass housing in Northern Europe / Anne Power.
Author
Power, Anne.
Publication
Basingstoke : Macmillan, c1999.

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xxvi, 432 p. : ill., 1 map; 23 cm.
Summary
Estates on the Edge recounts the decline and rescue of low income government-sponsored housing estates across Northern Europe giving a vivid account of the intense physical, social and organisational problems facing social landlords in five countries. These countries have 5,500,000 social housing units in around 5,000 large, dense, modern flatted estates, about one in three of their social rented stock. These estates house increasingly poor people in declining, mainly outer areas, cut off from urban centres. Many have experienced chaotic decline and sometimes serious disorder. Some have also undergone dramatic transformation and upgrading. The book traces this process of decline and rescue.
Subject
  • Low-income housing > Europe, Northern
  • Public housing > Europe, Northern
  • Housing policy > Europe, Northern
  • Housing authorities > Europe, Northern
Note
  • Previous ed.: 1997.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p404-423) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Acknowledgements; Definitions and Explanatory Notes; PART 1: THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEM OF MASS HOUSING IN EUROPE; Introduction; Collecting the Evidence; The Die is Cast; Pressures on Governments; PART 2: A SURVEY OF 20 EUROPEAN ESTATES; Common Problems; New Directions; PART 3: FIVE SYMBOLIC ESTATES, THEIR DECLINE AND RESCUE; Portrait of Les Minguettes, France, 1965-95; Portrait of Kolnberg, Germany, 1974-95; Portrait of Broadwater Farm Estate, London, 1966-95; Portrait of Taastrupgaard, near Copenhagen, 1965-95; Portrait of Ballymun, Dublin, 1966-95; PART 4: CHAOS OR COMMUNITY?; Extreme Decline in Five Symbolic Estates; A Change in Estate Fortunes; PART 5: CAN MASS HOUSING ESTATES BE RESCUED?; Managing Mass Housing; On the Edge of Democracy; Summary of Estates on the Edge: The Social Consequences of Mass Housing in Northern Europe; Appendix 1; References; Bibliography; Index
ISBN
  • 0333674634
  • 0333746031 (pbk)
OCLC
  • 42039003
  • SCSB-12175574
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Harvard Library