Prelims
Social Housing and Urban Renewal
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Publication date: 7 August 2017
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(2017), "Prelims", Watt, P. and Smets, P. (Ed.) Social Housing and Urban Renewal, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-124-720171015
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SOCIAL HOUSING AND URBAN RENEWAL
A Cross-National Perspective
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SOCIAL HOUSING AND URBAN RENEWAL
A Cross-National Perspective
EDITED BY
PAUL WATT
Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
PEER SMETS
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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List of Contributors
| Simone Abram | Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK |
| Matthias Bernt | Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space, Research Department 4 ‘Regeneration of Cities’, Erkner, Germany |
| Lynda Cheshire | School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia |
| Cansu Civelek | Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
| Agnès Deboulet | Department of Sociology, University Paris 8, Nanterre Cedex, France |
| Luna Glucksberg | International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics, London, UK |
| Chikako Mori | Graduate School of Law and International Relations, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan |
| Aidan Mosselson | Gauteng City Region Observatory, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Manuela Olagnero | Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Torino, Italy |
| Irene Ponzo | FIERI: Forum of International and European Research on Immigration, Torino, Italy |
| Javier Ruiz-Tagle | Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile |
| Shomon Shamsuddin | Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA |
| Peer Smets | Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Lawrence J. Vale | Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Andrew Wallace | School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK |
| Paul Watt | Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK |
List of Abbreviations
- AFHCO
-
Affordable Housing Company
- AKP
-
Justice and Development Party
- AMI
-
Area Median Income
- ANRU
-
Agence Nationale de Rénovation Urbaine [National Urban Renovation Agency]
- ANC
-
African National Congress
- ASGISA
-
Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa
- AUM
-
Anxiety Uncertainty Management
- BBP
-
Better Buildings Programme
- CAB
-
Citizens Advice Bureau
- CC
-
Conseil Citoyen [Citizens’ Council]
- CDS
-
City Development Strategy
- CHALK
-
Charlestown and Lower Kersal
- CHP
-
Community Housing Provider
- CHP
-
Republican People’s Party (Turkey)
- CRESR
-
Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research
- DCLG
-
Department of Communities and Local Government
- Drs
-
Drucksache (printed paper)
- DHPW
-
Department of Housing and Public Works
- EAP
-
Estate Action Plan
- GDR
-
German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)
- GEAR
-
Growth Employment and Redistribution
- GHLC
-
Government Housing Loan Corporation
- GLC
-
Greater London Council
- GPF
-
Gauteng Partnership Fund
- GWG
-
GWG Gesellschaft für Wohn- und Gewerbeimmobilien Halle-Neustadt mbH (one of the two municipal housing companies in Halle (Saale))
- HA
-
Housing Association
- HMR
-
Housing Market Renewal
- IOS
-
Informatie, Onderzoek en Statistiek (Department of Information, Research and Statistics of the Municipality of Amsterdam)
- JHC
-
Johannesburg Housing Company
- JNR
-
Japanese National Railways
- JOSHCO
-
Johannesburg Social Housing Company
- IMO
-
Chamber of Civil Engineers
- KdU
-
Kosten der Unterkunft (“costs for accommodation” provided for welfare recipients)
- LA
-
Local Authority
- LBS
-
London Borough of Southwark
- LCC
-
Logan City Council
- LCCH
-
Logan City Community Housing
- LRC
-
London Research Centre
- LRI
-
Logan Renewal Initiative
- MAAC
-
Minami Aoyama Apartment Corporation
- MP
-
Member of Parliament
- NASHO
-
National Association of Social Housing Organisations
- NDC
-
New Deal for Communities
- NFP
-
Not for Profit
- NHFC
-
National Housing Finance Corporation
- NHSS
-
National Housing Subsidy Scheme
- NPNRU
-
Nouveau Programme National de Renouvellement Urbain [National Urban Renewal Programme]
- PFI
-
Private Finance Initiative
- PNRU
-
Programme National de Renouvellement Urbain [National Urban Renewal Programe]
- PP
-
Peckham Partnership
- PRU
-
Plan de Renouvellement Urbain [Urban Renewal Plan]
- PUCA
-
Plan, Urbanization, Construction, Architecture
- RDP
-
Reconstruction and Development Program
- SANCO
-
South African National Civics Organisation
- SRB
-
Single Regeneration Budget
- TARA
-
Tenants and Residents Association
- TMG
-
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
- TOKİ
-
Mass Housing Administration of Turkey
- TUHF
-
Trust for Urban Housing Finance
- UR
-
Urban Renaissance Agency
- WG
-
Am Südpark: Wohnungsgenossenschaft Am Südpark eG (a cooperative housing company which went bankrupt in 2001)
- WP
-
Welfare Party
- WVB
-
Centuria GmbH (name of a private housing company, specialized in asset management)
- ZUS
-
Zone Urbain Sensible [Sensitive Urban Zones]
- Prelims
- 1 Social Housing and Urban Renewal: An Introduction
- 2 Holding on to HOPE: Assessing Redevelopment of Boston’s Orchard Park Public Housing Project
- 3 ‘The Blue Bit, that Was My Bedroom’: Rubble, Displacement and Regeneration in Inner-City London
- 4 Gentrification as Policy Goal or Unintended Outcome? Contested Meanings of Urban Renewal and Social Housing Reform in an Australian City
- 5 Are Social Mix and Participation Compatible? Conflicts and Claims in Urban Renewal in France and England
- 6 Promoting Social Mix through Tenure Mix: Social Housing and Mega-Event Regeneration in Turin
- 7 Tenure Mix against the Background of Social Polarization. Social Mixing of Moroccan-Dutch and Native-Born Dutch in Amsterdam East
- 8 Phased Out, Demolished and Privatized: Social Housing in an East German ‘Shrinking City’
- 9 Social Housing and Urban Renewal in Tokyo: From Post-War Reconstruction to the 2020 Olympic Games
- 10 Territorial Stigmatization in Socially-Mixed Neighborhoods in Chicago and Santiago: A Comparison of Global-North and Global-South Urban Renewal Problems
- 11 Caught Between the Market and Transformation: Urban Regeneration and the Provision of Low-Income Housing in Inner-City Johannesburg
- 12 Social Housing, Urban Renewal and Shifting Meanings of ‘Welfare State’ in Turkey: A Study of the Karaplnar Renewal Project, Eskişehir
- 13 The Inbetweeners: Living with Abandonment, Gentrification and Endless Urban ‘Renewal’ in Salford, UK
- 14 Social Housing and Urban Renewal: Conclusion
- About the Authors
- Index