ABSTRACT
Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of the twentieth-century modern housing project and its social diagram, juxtaposed with case studies from the past and the present that suggest that we can live and work differently.
While the contributions are diverse in their theoretical approach and geographical situation, their juxtaposition yields transversal connections in the conception of the home and the city and highlights the diversity of architectural solutions in the formation of housing and its communities. The collection also reveals architecture’s contribution to the construction of the self and communities, the individual and the collective—as both urban spatial entities and socio-political concepts.
Housing and the City provides essential reading for students, academics, and practitioners interested in the history, theory, or current design of housing. At a time when cities are witnessing new ways of working, changing social demographics, increased geographical mobility, and mass migrations, as well as the pervasive threat of the climate crisis—all trends exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic—Housing and the City presents a historical and theoretical reflection on the question: what does it mean to be at home in the city in the twenty-first century?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
part 1|6 pages
The Modern Housing Project in an International Context
part Section 1.1|50 pages
Formations
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
Health, Tuberculosis, and the City
part Section 1.2|55 pages
Modernism and Ideology
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
Revolution Begins at Home
chapter Chapter 8|13 pages
Kiryat Meir, the First Middle-Class Cooperative Housing Complex in Tel Aviv
part Section 1.3|56 pages
Housing and the City in the Welfare State
chapter Chapter 10|15 pages
Open Building and User Agency
chapter Chapter 11|16 pages
Public-Private Partnerships and Medium-Density Housing in North Melbourne, Australia
part 2|5 pages
Collective Types and Urban Areas
part Section 2.1|47 pages
Collective Inhabitations
chapter Chapter 15|10 pages
Resilient Structure, Collective Form
part Section 2.2|48 pages
Living and Working