In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes,
leading sociologist Gran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the …

Although much knowledge and debates about residential satisfaction exist, there is little
evidence regarding its fluid nature and its influencing factors. Therefore, we suggest an …

The academic discourse on post-Second World War (post-WW2) multifamily housing
complexes has mostly focused on their negative aspects, related, especially, to their high …

(XURSH KDV ZLWQHVVHG GXULQJ WKH WZHQW\fiUVW century its greatest ever period
of high-rise construction. From London to Rotterdam, Barcelona, Moscow, Madrid, Vienna …

In light of the symptoms of obsolescence shown by housing estates built in the 1960–70s,
numerous approaches have contributed to the debate on this urban form characteristic of …

In the 1960s and 1970s, all over Europe housing estates emerged that were very similar
with respect to construction methods and urban design. At the same time, housing estates …

Mass housing neighbourhoods (MHN) represent the leading pattern of urban transformation
and expansion in the second half of the 20th century, and accordingly evaluation …

The paper contributes to the discussion concerning methods used to analyse urban
shrinkage and points to the need to comprehensively examine the reasons, course and …

As a reaction to the critical writings of urban sociologists regarding the quality of post-
Second World War large housing estates (monotonous architectural design, cheap/poor …

This article addresses the contemporary framework of housing at the EU level in the era of
the 'Housing at the Centre'approach. More specifically, the research focuses on mass …