Housing Estates in Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges

Anamaria Klasić is the author of a review of the book “Housing Estates in Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges“ (eds. Daniel Baldwin Hess, Tiit Tammaru and Maarten van Ham). The review is published in the journal “Sociology and Space“, indexed in Q2 in the Scopus data base for Urban Studies (2021).

In the volume, the authors use case studies of 14 European cities to describe the development trajectories of large modernist housing estates. The presented research is a continuation of the great European project Restate, which at the beginning of the century pointed to negative physical and social trends affecting large housing estates. Through the chapters, the authors take on the following research questions: Taking into account the potential for possible interventions, what is the impact of large housing estates on the reproduction of inequality, poverty and segregation in European cities today? Do the housing estates still have different trajectories of development (result of the Restate project) and what causes these differences? What is, in this aspect, the role of broader patterns and trends in housing tenures and residualisation, that is, how does privatization affect these housing estates? Have the various interventions present in the European context been successful and how can large housing estates be turned into homes for the future? As a conclusion, the authors draw up 10 lessons for the future planning of cities inside and outside Europe.

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