Overview
- Focuses on people-based and placed-based complex challenges of housing estates
- Addresses issues from a new perspective previously unexplored in scholarly literature
- Thoroughly investigates the role of large housing estates in poverty and ethnic concentrations
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Case Studies of Housing Estates in European Metropolitan Areas
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About this book
The collection of chapters in this book addresses these questions from a new perspective previously unexplored in scholarly literature. The social aspects of housing estates are thoroughly investigated (including socio-demographic and economic characteristics of current and past inhabitants; ethnicity and segregation patterns; population dynamics; etc.), and the physical composition of housing estates is described in significant detail (including building materials; building form; architectural and landscape design; built environment characteristics; etc.). This book is timely because the recent global economic crisis and Europe’s immigration crisis demand a thorough investigation of the role large housing estates play in poverty and ethnic concentration. Through case studies of housing estates in 14 European centers, the book also identifies policy measures that have been used to address challenges in housing estates throughout Europe.
Reviews
“This new book by Hess, Tammaru and Van Ham expands on [an] earlier project by adding more and newer evidence from an even larger number of countries and by identifying successful policies and programs that maintain the quality of these large housing estates as positive places to live for low- and middle-income households. I would recommend this book to academics who work on issues like segregation and concentration of socioeconomically deprived populations in urban space specifically.” (Karien Dekker, Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 42 (1), 2020)
“I strongly recommend [this book] to housing scholars and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic. The editors and the publisher, Springer Open, deserve credit for publishing two attractive and useful books that address the breadth and depth of issues related to housing estate revitalization across Europe. The numerous photographs (color as well as black-white) throughout the book helped me to understand changes in the design of European housing estates—the good as well as the bad.” (David P. Varady, Geography Research Forum, Vol. 39, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel Baldwin Hess is Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is also Visiting Scholar and former Director of the Centre for Migration and Urban Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia, where he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. His research contributes new pathways for understanding the complex socio-economic and ethnic landscape of cities and spatial inequalities. He is a former Fulbright Scholar at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia and winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
Tiit Tammaru is Professor in the Centre for Migration and Studies at the University of Tartu, in Estonia. He is the lead editor of Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities: east meets west (Routledge, 2016). Tammaru is also the Head of the Centre for Estonian Diaspora Studies and has received both the Estonian Science Award in social sciences in 2010 and the Natural Sciences Award in 2011. His fields of interest include socio-spatial inequality, geographical changes in urban regions, governing urban diversity and social mobility.
Maarten van Ham is Professor of Urban Renewal and Head of the Neighbourhood Change and Housing Research Group at OTB - Research for the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands. Van Ham is a population geographer with a background in economic and urban geography. He is a Research Fellow at IZA (a large economic research institute in Germany) and Professor of Geography at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Since2014, he is head of the ERC project DEPRIVEDHOODS, a 5-year research project on neighbourhood effects
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Housing Estates in Europe
Book Subtitle: Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges
Editors: Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92813-5
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) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92812-8Published: 28 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06522-5Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92813-5Published: 14 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 424
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Development and Social Change, Urban Studies/Sociology, European Economics, Demography