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An accessible reader offering case studies of innovative alternatives to expansionist urban housing

This reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery has been detrimental to not only urban populations but also the planet at large, corroding its most valuable and scarce resource, land. Housing proffers redensification as the corrective measure to the failing expansionist approach toward urban planning. Gathered here are case studies of alternative social housing projects from the past centuryall of which incorporate methods of redensification. They span the Weißenhofsiedlung Estate (1927) to architectural experiments in suburban Mexico as recent as 2017.
These alternative developments have offered solutions to countries experiencing intense population growth and provided sanctuary for those who have lost their homes in natural disasters. Altogether, the projects evince that the problem of urban hou

Housing Strategies for Urban Redensification

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An accessible reader offering case studies of innovative alternatives to expansionist urban housingThis reader takes the following assumption as its... Read more

    Publisher: Arquine
    Publication Date: 1/18/2024
    ISBN13: 9786078880232, 978-6078880232
    ISBN10: 6078880233

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

    Description

    An accessible reader offering case studies of innovative alternatives to expansionist urban housing

    This reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery has been detrimental to not only urban populations but also the planet at large, corroding its most valuable and scarce resource, land. Housing proffers redensification as the corrective measure to the failing expansionist approach toward urban planning. Gathered here are case studies of alternative social housing projects from the past centuryall of which incorporate methods of redensification. They span the Weißenhofsiedlung Estate (1927) to architectural experiments in suburban Mexico as recent as 2017.
    These alternative developments have offered solutions to countries experiencing intense population growth and provided sanctuary for those who have lost their homes in natural disasters. Altogether, the projects evince that the problem of urban hou

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