scholarly journals Urban renewal as a lever for action in urban policy to make social housing districts more attractive

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Schaeffer
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Urban Policy

scholarly journals Participatory institutions and the housing issue: an exploratory study into the types of debate surrounding participation, resolution and funding

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Walkiria Zambrzycki Dutra ◽  
Leonardo Barros Soares
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Participatory Institutions ◽  
Housing Issue ◽  
Management Council

The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which the organization of the actors involved in public policies may influence decisions within the participatory institutions of which they make part. Two specific contexts were compared from an exploratory perspective – 2009/2010 and 2013/2014 – by analysing the minutes and resolutions issued by the three participatory institutions involved in the Brazilian National Social Housing Plan, namely: the FGTS Trustee Council, the Management Council for the National Social Housing Fund; and the Council of Cities. We have proposed a category called “politically relevant discourses on housing funding” as being able to provide us with a specific overview of the discussion regarding participation and funding. We conclude that the three councils perform distinct roles. The CGFNHIS has become drained politically, the ConCidades sets a broader scope for urban policy, and the CCFGTS seems to be the main institution related to the topic of housing funding.

Creating Neighbourhood Networks: Why the Alvalade Landscape Matters to Housing

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
Romana Xerez
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Network Resources ◽  
Social Mix ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
Development Failure

How does social capital matter to the creation of neighbourhood networks in cities? Social housing in Portugal is some times viewed as a single architectural and building environment development failure. This article discusses a relevant Portuguese urban planning landscape and aims to contribute to the discussion of one of its main purpose – the social housing experiment. The author discusses the case of this landscape as urban policy-making and evaluates its implementation and relevance. She hypothesizes that “neighbourhood units” have become a relevant case in the context of neighbourhood planning and housing social-mix in Lisbon. Firstly, she uses theoretical arguments and findings to discuss an urban experiment - Alvalade Landscape. Secondly, the paper analyses relevant data that demonstrates its links to the housing policies thus enriching the urban design. The article offers evidence from the Alvalade Landscape case study in Lisbon of theoretical and empirical community ties in the 1940s. Thirdly, the paper identifies some elements such as community units, social mix, sidewalks, and that have an impact on neighbourhood design as well as people’s lives. The findings show that supportive neighbour ties provide important network resources (social capital) concerning daily life, illness, support or financial aid. Finally, the paper suggests the relevance that social neighbourhood community has in housing programs and policies.

scholarly journals Fighting for Their Neighborhood: Urban Policy and Anti-State Riots in France

Social Forces ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 1719-1743
Author(s):  
Michalis Moutselos
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Local Variation ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
The North ◽  
Network Activation ◽  
And Inversion ◽  
Housing Estates

Abstract Why does anti-state, violent rioting take place in advanced democracies? The paper investigates the role of the urban environment in shaping grievances expressed and mobilization/counter-mobilization processes observed during a riotous episode. In particular, I look at large social-housing estates as a propitious urban setting for the eruption and sustenance of anti-state violence. I identify three mechanisms (stigma amplification and inversion, failure of state intervention in the form of everyday administration and emergency policing, and advantages for network activation and resource mobilization among potential rioters) that complement standard explanations of rioting based on socioeconomic and ethno-cultural grievances. I test the theoretical model using a controlled case study of two neighboring suburbs in the North of Paris, with similar socioeconomic, demographic, and political characteristics but different violent outcomes in the 2005 nation-wide wave of French riots. The paper traces the source of local variation to the exogenous presence of large, concentrated social-housing estates in one, but not the other. The analysis here treats anti-state rioting as a form of urban protest and looks at state-society divisions rooted in urban geography and policy that have been overlooked in conventional scholarship on minority mobilization in Europe.

scholarly journals Urban Regeneration in Rotterdam: Economic and Social Values

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariënne Mak ◽  
Paul Stouten
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Subsequent Regeneration

Development of economic and social values is regarded as a key factor in urban development and urban regeneration. With its history of urban renewal and regeneration since the 1970s, Rotterdam provides an example to assess the profound changes from a socialized mode of housing provision and urban renewal towards more market-oriented strategies. In this light, new forms of gentrification are becoming a regular strategy in former urban renewal areas, mainly dominated by social housing. The paper examines the development of economic and social values in areas of Rotterdam that have been transformed through the vast urban renewal and subsequent regeneration programs. Mostly these programs are area-based approaches that got priority in more European countries.

scholarly journals RING ROAD: BIRMINGHAM AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE MOTOR CITY IDEAL IN 1970s BRITAIN

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON GUNN
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Ring Road ◽  
Motor Industry ◽  
Post War

AbstractReconstructing Britain's cities to accommodate the ‘motor revolution’ was an integral part of urban renewal in the post-war decades. This article shows how opposition to urban motorways had a pivotal role in the retreat from urban modernism in the 1970s. It takes as its case-study Birmingham, Britain's premier motor city, headquarters of the motor industry, and with heavy investment in roads, including the Inner Ring, Britain's first urban motorway completed in 1971. The article traces the collapse of the motor city ideal in Birmingham sparked by controversy over car pollution at Spaghetti Junction, the growth of roads protest, and the implication of the Inner Ring in municipal corruption. In so doing, it identifies the intersection of environmental, political, and economic factors that lay behind thevolte-facein urban policy and compares Birmingham with other cities which witnessed similar revolts. It argues that the 1970s in Britain saw the end of a specific engineering vision of the post-war city, centred on the car and the ‘citizen-driver’.

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