Cities and Affordable Housing

NOTE EDITORE

This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people- and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good practices of city-led strategies for affordable housing provision, as well as individual projects capitalising on partnerships to build mixed-income housing and revitalise neighbourhoods. Twenty chapters provide unique perspectives on diversity of approaches ineight countries and12 cities in Europe, Canada and the USA. Combining academic rigour with knowledge from critical practice, the book uses robust empirical analysis and evidence-based case study research to illustrate the potential of affordable housing partnerships for mixed-income, socially inclusive neighbourhoods as a model to rebuild cities. Cities and Affordable Housing is an essential interdisciplinary collection on planning and design that will be of great interest to scholars, urban professionals, architects, planners and policy-makers interested in housing, urban planning and city building.

SOMMARIO

1. Affordable Housing and the Future CitiesSasha Tsenkova Part I Cities and Affordable Housing 2. Montréal: Building an Inclusive City Suzanne LaFerrière 3. Affordable Housing and Diversity in VancouverAbigail Bond 4. Affordable Housing Transition in CalgarySarah Woodgate, Teresa Goldstein,and Claire Noble 5. Affordable Housing Challenges: The Experience of the City of EdmontonJalene Anderson-Baron and Christel Kjenner6. Responses to Toronto’s Affordable Housing Challenge: Mobilizing for ActionSean Gadon Part II Mixed-Income Affordable Housing and Community Building 7. Mix and Match: A Framework for Understanding Mixed-Income OutcomesShomon Shamsuddin 8. Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.Joni Hirsch, Mark L. Joseph, and Amy T. Khare 9. Paris Habitat’s Experience of Urban Regeneration to Create Affordable HousingStéphane Dauphin and Hélène Schwoerer 10. Toronto: Revitalization in Regent Park 12 Years LaterVincent Tong Part III Affordable Housing Partnerships in Practice 11. Mixed-Income Housing in New York City: Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons of an Enduring Mayoral CommitmentAlex F. Schwartz and Sasha Tsenkova 12. Partnerships for Affordable Housing in English CitiesKath Scanlon 13. Resilience of Social Housing Systems in Vienna, Amsterdam, and CopenhagenSasha Tsenkova Part IV Design Innovation in Affordable Housing 14. Thinking "Outside the Box" about Affordable Homes and CommunitiesAvi Friedman 15. Affordable Housing & Design Innovation: A View from ParisChristelle Avenier and Sasha Tsenkova 16. Affordable Housing Design + A New Urban Era in European CitiesPaul Karakusevic 17. Amsterdam: More than a Social Housing ProjectJeroen Atteveld and Bas Liesker Part V Perspectives on Policy Design for Affordable Housing 18. Pathways of Dutch and German Social RentingMarietta Haffner 19. Social Sustainability in Social and Affordable HousingMeryn Severson and Esther de Vos 20.Private Rental Housing in Canada’s Metropolitan Areas: Trends and ProspectsJ. David Hulchanski

AUTORE

Sasha Tsenkova is Professor of Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, University of Calgary, Canada. She has published extensively on housing and urban issues and has worked for international organisations on projects in Europe, North America and Central Asia.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781032001487
• Dimensioni: 10 x 7 in Ø 1.79 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 99 b/w images, 14 tables, 75 halftones and 24 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 300
• Pagine Romane: xviii