This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing
estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally …

Since the 1980s, as part of the gradual transformation of the welfare state in large parts of
Europe, many countries have witnessed a decline in the provision of social housing. Overall …

In post-socialist cities of Central and Eastern Europe, large housing estates became
dominant features of post-war housing development. Unlike in Western Europe, these …

Only since the beginning of the 1990s has research attention for post-WWII large housing
areas started systematically. On the one hand, this has to do with the fact that in the 1970s …

Despite the multiple contributions of public open spaces (POSs) to the quality of life in large
housing estates (LHEs), the comprehensive treatment of their improvement has so far been …

Large scale housing estates, once a dream of every family, now are facing serious physical
and social decline. However comparison of the post war housing has showed that despite …

Public and private housing developments between 1940 and 1990 shaped the City of
Madrid by differentiating urban area types according to social composition, location and …

This chapter discusses mass public housing estates in England and uses Birmingham to
illustrate how estates have changed. In British cities, large housing estates built between the …

Finland and Estonia had unusually close connections for a Western and a Soviet state
following the Khrushchëv Thaw. This chapter addresses the question of how Finnish …

The New Labour government placed communities at the heart of urban regeneration policy.
Area deprivation and social exclusion were to be addressed through rebuilding community …