Projects / Programmes
RESTATE - Restructuring Large-scale Housing Estates in European Cities: Good Practices and New Visions for Sustainable Neighbourhoods and Cities
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.08.00 |
Social sciences |
Urbanism |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| T260 |
Technological sciences |
Physical planning |
Housing estates, housing policy, renewal, maintenance, restructuring, quality of living, empowerment, sustainability, best practice
Researchers (6)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The project focuses on the investigation of the situation of post-war large housing estates, the policies implemented for the elimination of negative tendencies and the activities that contribute to their positive development. The magnitude of the various aspects which contribute to the generation of problems in housing estates and the consequent complexity of the approaches adopted for their resolution, present serious challenges to the policy-makers. Intervention is usully conditioned by capacity for additional funding, partnerships between various enterprises, interdisciplinary work and total involvement of the local community and decision-makers. All this calls for the need to adopt the planning gain approach about which some of the major actors are often not well familiarised. There are great possibilities for learning from the positive experiences of other countries.
The approach adopted in this research is multi-disciplinary and internationally comparable. It requires extensive cooperation between the researchers, the decision-makers and stateholders. The detection of specific problems in specific areas of countries or cities represents the basic element of the research project. One of the major aims of the project is to identify the policies that have been designed to deal with the problems, their level of success and the reasons for their success (or failure). The identification of "best practices" may gradualyl lead to the implementation of more efficient and and more responsive policies in specific areas.
It is important to keep in mind the visibly broad diversity of demographic, economic, social, cultural, and political circumstances among the ten different European countries participating in this project. This means that the research results will considerably spead up the search for solutions to the problems of large housing estates, at a trully European level (east and west).
The reasearch project includes the following cities: Amsterdam (NL), Barcelona (ES), Berlin (GE), Birmingham (UK), Budapest (HU), Joenkoeping (S), Koper (SL), Ljubljana (SL), London (UK), Lyon (F), Madrid (ES), Milano (I), Nyiregyhaza (HU), Stockholm (S), Utrecht (NL) in Warsaw (PL).
