Restructuring large housing estates in Europe

2006 "Social mix and social perspectives in post-war housing estates" by Roger Andersson, IBF and Sako Musterd, Amsterdam University, and "Who leaves Sweden's large housing estates?" by Åsa Bråmå, IBF and Roger Andersson, IBF, and "Restructuring large housing estates: does gender matter? by Christiane Droste, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner, Irene Molina, IBF, and Francesca Zajczyk, University of Milano Bicocca in Ronald van Kempen, Karien Dekker, Stephen Hall and Iván Tosics, Restructuring large housing estates in Europe. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Abstract
All over Europe post-Second World War large-scale housing estates face physical, economic, social and cultural problems. This book presents the key findings of a major EU-funded research programme into the restructuring of twenty-nine large-scale housing estates in Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe.

Policy and practice between and within the ten countries studied – UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, and France – is compared. While existing literature focuses on the negative aspects of large-scale housing estates, this book starts from the premise that the estates can be transformed into attractive places to live and focuses on the possibilities of sustainability and renewal through social, physical and policy actions.

Specifically, the book:

• explains the origins and nature of contemporary problems on the estates:
• examines, which policy objectives, measures and processes have had the greatest impact;
• assesses and compares a wide range of local, regional and national initiatives;
• discusses current ideas and philosophies, such as 'place making' and 'collaborative planning' that are likely to influence future policy and practice;
• provides good practice guidance for neighbourhood sustainability and renewal.

Restructuring large-scale housing estates in Europe is an invaluable resource for a wide audience of academics, researchers, students and policy makers in the fields of housing, urban studies, community studies, regeneration, planning and social policy.