Overview
- Analyses a little-known, century-old peripheral modernist social estate, using contemporary analytical categories employed by critical urban studies researchers
- Presents a comprehensive and coherent concept for a social housing estate, based on historical and empirical examples
- Discusses the innovative and laboratory character of this urban experiment, clearly defining what was accomplished and what failed and why
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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About this book
This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow. It describes the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative not as a historical relic or a single case study, but instead analyses this working-class social housing estate – in itself an extremely interesting emancipatory project – from the perspective of contemporary urban studies.
It focuses on issues related to the power of architecture, architects and the estate residents themselves: the city's performative actions, problems related to the polycentric character of the city authorities, the opportunities of building urban institutions, and social identities and urban common goods. Inspired by the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative, the book investigates how the estate residents, assisted by social reformers (today called urban activists), organised the urban space of performative democracy, and how they developed anti-capitalist, urban-survival strategies and created new lifestyles. It also analyses how passive tenants turned into active citizens claiming their right to the city.
The inspiring book is intended for researchers in the field of performative studies, urban sociologists, critical urban studies researchers, animators of social life and urban activists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Warsaw Housing Cooperative
Book Subtitle: City in Action
Authors: Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23077-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23076-0Published: 08 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23079-1Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23077-7Published: 25 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 292
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Urban Studies/Sociology, Regional and Cultural Studies