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Preservation and public housing in the United States
Docomomo Journal, 2021 Public housing is an important part of the heritage of the 20th century that deserves preservation, but is in danger of being demolished or unrecognizably altered.
Theodore Prudon
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Vegaviana, a colonization village
Docomomo Journal, 2021 The Instituto Nacional de Colonización built a series of villages all over Spain to support farmers who were working on the newly established irrigated lands.
Inmaculada Bote Alonso +1 more
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Sunny flats will replace…A congested slum block
Docomomo Journal, 2021 The present text traces the post war slum clearance program in Sydney, Australia, that saw the construction of modern blocks of flats drawn from international examples of rehousing schemes. This State-funded urban renewal program continued from the late
Noni Boyd
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Docomomo Journal, 2021 The neighborhood unit (Sector) in Chandigarh was conceived as a self-sufficient, repeated element to create the matrix of the city along with the hierarchical circulation system defined by the 7Vs to disburse traffic in an orderly manner.
Sangeeta Bagga
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Preserving a modern housing model
Docomomo Journal, 2021 This paper examines the history of Pedregulho Housing Neighborhood, built between 1948 and 1960 by the Department of Popular Housing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the first concepts to the restoration in 2015.
Flávia Brito do Nascimento
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Housing explorations. Unidad Vecinal Portales in Santiago
Docomomo Journal, 2021 This article explores the contribution of Unidad Vecinal Portales – built in Santiago de Chile by the studio Bresciani, Valdés, Castillo y Huidobro – to the debates on social housing in Chile between the 1940s and 1960s.
Umberto Bonomo
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Large-scale housing projects in Lisbon
Docomomo Journal, 2021 The neighborhoods of Olivais Norte (1960), Olivais Sul (1963) and Telheiras Sul (1974) are paradigmatic examples of the Portuguese State’s response to the housing shortage that was acknowledged in Lisbon, in the period of the post-WWII.
Ana Tostões, Zara Ferreira
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Docomomo Journal, 2021 In the teeming context of the 1970s, the Cité Avanchet-Parc is an undeniably original achievement, representative of the approach – above all cultural – of a generation of architects who sought to experiment with new urban and architectural forms in ...
Franz Graf, Giulia Marino
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Docomomo Journal, 2021 Today there is a new wave of co-housing internationally. Co-housing is here understood as collaborative housing, based on collaboration between residents on cooking and house maintenance, a new phenomenon since the 1980s.
Claes Caldenby
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Docomomo Journal, 2021 This study considers the role of management guidelines in regulating the pressures for change in large housing estates where heritage constraints are involved but where the use of formal enforcement procedures would be unrealistic and uneconomical.
John Allan
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