{"product_id":"post-war-middle-class-housing-models-construction-and-change-9783034315944","title":"Post-War Middle-Class Housing: Models,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePost-war middle-class housing played a key role in constructing and transforming the cities of Europe and America, deeply impacting today’s urban landscape. And yet, this stock has been underrepresented in a literature mostly focused on public housing and the work of a few master architects. \u003cbr\u003e This book is the first attempt to explore such housing from an international perspective. It provides a comparative insight into the processes of construction, occupation and transformation of residential architecture built for the middle-classes in 12 different countries between the 1950s and 1970s. It investigates the role of models, actors and policies that shaped the middle-class city, tracing geographies, chronologies and forms of development that often cross national frontiers.\u003cbr\u003e This study is particularly relevant today within the context of «fragilization» which affects the middle-classes, challenging, as it does, the urban role played by this residential heritage in the light of technological obsolescence, trends in patterns of homeownership, as well as social and generational changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Monique Eleb: Preface – Gaia Caramellino: Introduction. The Middle-Class Project: Designing New Ways of Living in the Post-War City – Lionel Engrand: The Middle-Class Dwelling Unit. Architectural Theory, Lifestyle and Marketing in France, 1945–1965 – Luca Molinari\/Chiara Ingrosso: The ‘Residential Park’ as a New Model for the Emerging Middle-Class in Naples During the 1950s – Ioanna Theocharopoulou: A Social and Cultural Reading of the Athenian \u003ci\u003ePolykatoikia\u003c\/i\u003e 1949–1974 – Daniel Rincón De La Vega: Spanish Post-Civil War Middle-Class Housing. Limited Rent Flats in the Francoist Madrid – Anahi Ballent: Apartment Buildings for the Middle-Class. Cultural Transformation of Domestic Life and Urban Densification in Buenos Aires – Juliette Spertus\/Susanne Schindler: Co-op City and Twin Parks: Two Models for Middle-Class Housing in the Bronx during the 1970s – Marieke van Rooij: Dutch New Town Almere Haven. A Search for the Accommodation of the Suburban Wishes of the Middle-Classes in the 1970s – Ana Vaz Milheiro\/Filipa Fiúza\/Rogério Vieira de Almeida\/Débora Félix: ‘Radieuse’ Peripheries. A Comparative Study on Middle-Class Housing in Luanda, Lisbon and Macao – Eveline Althaus\/Marie Antoinette Glaser: Legacies of Modernism. House Biographies of Large Post-War Residential Complexes in Switzerland – Els de Vos: Multiple Versions of Modernity in Post-War Belgium. The Housing Estate of Ban Eik – Filippo De Pieri: «Stories of Houses». Observing Post-War Middle-Class Housing in Italy – Jonathan Massey: Housing Risk: Neoliberal Homeownership in the United States – Matthew Soules: Deconstructing Liveability. Perspectives from Central Vancouver – Wouter Bervoets\/Marijn van de Weijer: The Future of the Post-War Single-Family House: The Case of Flanders – Federico Zanfi: Afterword.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043635593559,"sku":"9783034315944","price":44.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034315944.jpg?v=1750958963","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/post-war-middle-class-housing-models-construction-and-change-9783034315944","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}