The new tenement : residences in the inner city since 1970 / Florian Urban.

Author
Urban, Florian [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
xii, 310 pages ; 26 cm

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    This book examines "new tenements"-dense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since the 1970s and came with a new positive view on urban living. Focusing principally on Berlin, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Rotterdam, and Vienna, it relates architectural design to an evolving intellectual framework that mixed anti-modernist criticism with nostalgic images and strategic goals, and absorbed ideas about the city as a generator of creativity, locale of democratic debate, and object of personal identification. This book analyses new tenements in the context of the post-functionalist city and its mixed-use neighbourhoods, redeveloped industrial sites and regenerated waterfronts. It demonstrates that these buildings are both generators and outcome of an urban environment characterised by information exchange rather than industrial production, individual expression rather than mass culture, visible history rather than comprehensive renewal, and conspicuous difference rather than egalitarianism. It also shows that new tenements evolved under the local variations of a welfare state that all over Europe has come under pressure, but still to a certain degree balances and controls heterogeneity and economic disparities. Book jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Architecture and the return to the inner city
    • Local conditions, local policies, and symbolic projects
    • Urban housing themes.
    ISBN
    • 9781138224452 ((hardcover))
    • 1138224456 ((hardcover))
    • 9781138224469 ((paperback))
    • 1138224464 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2017012194
    OCLC
    976406210
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