ABSTRACT
This chapter mentions the most relevant ones over the last 100 years in chronological order and related to housing since various other writers/researchers have discussed in‐depth projects both individually or as a coherent group. Early projects (e.g., Ivain, Friedman, and Constant) emphasized the options and possibilities for inhabitants to adapt or modify their environment and to incorporate citizens in the systems of building and modification. Traditional housing was – and in part still is – a way/method to answer one's basic need for shelter first; (recent) history in this tells people that, while this need is persistent, it is also accompanied by the increasing possibilities for enhancement and for extended experience. Technology also provides for the expressed desire of participatory activity in creating, designing, and maintaining his/her (built) environment, one that also serves as the primary element within the actual move to a really smart, participative city.
