Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- one Restructuring large housing estates in European cities: an introduction
- two Large housing estates in Europe: a contemporary overview
- three Place making and large estates: theory and practice
- four Large housing estates in their historical context
- five Privatisation and after
- six Tackling social cohesion in ethnically diverse estates
- seven Social mix and social perspectives in post-war housing estates
- eight On physical determinism and displacement effects
- nine Who leaves Sweden’s large housing estates?
- ten Demolition of large housing estates: an overview
- eleven Building partnerships in Spanish and Italian regeneration processes
- twelve Local participation in Spain and the Netherlands
- thirteen Fighting unemployment on large housing estates: an example from Sweden
- fourteen Feelings of insecurity and young people in housing estates
- fifteen Restructuring large housing estates: does gender matter?
- sixteen Knowledge management and enhanced policy application
- seventeen Conclusions
- Appendix The context of this edited volume
- Index
Appendix - The context of this edited volume
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- one Restructuring large housing estates in European cities: an introduction
- two Large housing estates in Europe: a contemporary overview
- three Place making and large estates: theory and practice
- four Large housing estates in their historical context
- five Privatisation and after
- six Tackling social cohesion in ethnically diverse estates
- seven Social mix and social perspectives in post-war housing estates
- eight On physical determinism and displacement effects
- nine Who leaves Sweden’s large housing estates?
- ten Demolition of large housing estates: an overview
- eleven Building partnerships in Spanish and Italian regeneration processes
- twelve Local participation in Spain and the Netherlands
- thirteen Fighting unemployment on large housing estates: an example from Sweden
- fourteen Feelings of insecurity and young people in housing estates
- fifteen Restructuring large housing estates: does gender matter?
- sixteen Knowledge management and enhanced policy application
- seventeen Conclusions
- Appendix The context of this edited volume
- Index
Summary
This edited volume was written as a result of the first half of the work undertaken for RESTATE, a research project funded by the EU. RESTATE is the acronym for Restructuring Large Housing Estates in European Cities: Good Practices and New Visions for Sustainable Neighbourhoods and Cities. The project running time was from November 2002 to October 2005. Ten European countries are involved and data have been gathered from 29 estates. This appendix provides some basic information on the RESTATE project. The primary objective of RESTATE is to deliver evidence-based knowledge drawing on experiences in cities in all parts of Europe. It is hoped that the results will be useful for researchers and policy makers seeking to discover the contexts in which measures taken to improve large urban housing estates have been, or can be expected to be, successful.
Research questions
Seven research questions have been formulated for the RESTATE project. They are as follows:
(1) What are the structural and other factors that explain the difference between success and failure of large post-war estates? What types and combinations of problems have been identified in different cities and what factors are associated with these problems?
(2) What is the philosophy underlying the various existing policies with regard to large housing estates in different European cities? What are the main policy aims? What are the main activities included in these policies, and what is the balance between these activities?
(3) How are these policies organised? Who participates in the policy and who has decided about this participation? Can the policy be seen as a top-down or as a bottom-up process? What are the advantages and the disadvantages of these approaches? Has the policy, the way in which it has been organised, and the way it is perceived by residents and others changed over the time period that it has been in place?
(4) Who profits from the developments and the policies? Who experiences clear disadvantages?
(5) Which aspects of policies are seen to have been successful and which are seen to have failed in different situations, and what explanations for this difference can be given?
(6) How far and in what ways can we generalise from the results of the different projects?
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- Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe , pp. 363 - 368Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2005