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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141233903321

Autore

Qu Lei

Titolo

Making room for people : choice, voice and liveability in residential places / / [edited by Lei Qu and Evert Hasselaar]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Techne Press, 2011

ISBN

90-8594-044-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EvertHasselaar

Disciplina

307.76

309.2/62

Soggetti

City planning

Landscape architecture

Landscape design

Housing - Netherlands

Community development - Netherlands

Business & Economics

Real Estate, Housing & Land Use

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Politics, Practices and Constraints of Socio-spatial Restructuring through Citizens' Active Engagement; 3. Neighbourhood Design Ateliers, Social Innovation and Sustainable Development; 4. Market Dominance and Participatory Planning in New Housing Developments; 5. Possible Futures of Self-construction: Post-structural Reflections on Ten Years of Experimentation with (C)PC; 6. Collective Client Controlled Development of Space: Examples from an Amsterdam Practice; 7. Self-managed Co-housing: Assessing Urban Qualities and Bottlenecks in the Planning System

8. ConclusionsIndex; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Making Room for People elaborates on preferences in housing. It explores how users, occupants, and citizens can express their needs, searching for the enhancement of individual choice and control over their residential environment, and the predicted positive spin-off's for urban collectives. The options to make choices and to have a say in



urban design and housing matters are used as a conceptual framework. 'Choice' and 'voice' are the main concepts that structure the empirical material.