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The survival and resurrection of a “Bakema-experiment” in an Amsterdam garden city
Docomomo Journal, 2021 There is a hidden gem in the Amsterdam garden cities. Jaap Bakema was the founder of an experiment in the 1950s. A piece of “Rotterdam in Amsterdam.” Based on the philosophy of an open society and the human scale.
Tim Nagtegaal
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Housing for the greatest number
Docomomo Journal, 2021 Addressing a broader vision, entitled “Housing for All”, this issue is dedicated to the welfare era, when governments across the world established ambitious housing programs to provide housing for the greatest number and improve the citizens’ living ...
Ana Tostões
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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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Modernity and housing production in France after WWII
Docomomo Journal, 2021 After the collapse of 1940 and Occupation (1940-1944), France experienced a remarkable renewal after Liberation in 1944. Through reconstruction and intensive efforts to bring the country out of the housing crisis, the State set up a powerful production ...
Joseph Abram
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President Alemán Urban Housing Project
Docomomo Journal, 2021 The Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán, inaugurated in 1949, was a pioneer in more ways than one and can be considered as one of the most transcendent works of Mario Pani.
Louise Noelle
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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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Housing and Social Transition in Japan [PDF]
, 2006 Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of ...
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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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Transforming Scotland's public sector housing through community ownership: the reterritorialisation of housing governance? [PDF]
, 2008 In recent decades, UK public-sector housing has increasingly been problematised, with government solutions focusing on modernising the sector by transferring ownership of the housing from the public to the voluntary sector through stock transfer.
Kim McKee, McKee, Kim
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