High-rise housing in Europe: Current trends and future prospects

Book review of: Mass housing in Europe: multiple faces of development, change and response

review of the book Maas Housing in Europe

Urban regeneration in European social housing areas, Chapter 11

Many European countries have policies to renew cities and neighbourhoods. This paper examines the policies of France, the Netherlands and Germany. In these, as in most Western European countries, the social housing sector forms an important part of regeneration schemes. Social housing is both actor and subject to urban renewal. Housing...

Strategies for upgrading the physical environment in deprived urban areas: Examples of good practice in Europe

Urban change spans all ages. However, some neighbourhoods do not adapt gradually to changed circumstances, but lapse into deprivation. Urban policies are necessary in these areas to revitalise them. Cities across Europe have deprived areas, and urban renewal policies are carried out in all of them. These approaches are made up of several...

Stratégies pour valoriser l’environnement physique dans les zones urbaines défavorisées -: Exemples de bonnes pratiques en Europe

Le changement urbain s’étend sur tous les âges. Certains quartiers ne s’adaptent pas graduellement aux circonstances qui évoluent, mais glissent dans la défavorisation. Des politiques urbaines sont nécessaires pour redynamiser ces régions. Dans toute l’Europe, les villes ont des zones défavorisées et des politiques de renouvellement urbain y...