Post-War Middle-Class Housing - Models, Construction and Change (Paperback, New edition)

Post-war middle-class housing played a key role in constructing and transforming the cities of Europe and America, deeply impacting today's urban landscape. And yet, this stock has been underrepresented in a literature mostly focused on public housing and the work of a few master architects. This book is the first attempt to explore such housing from an international perspective. It provides a comparative insight into the processes of construction, occupation and transformation of residential architecture built for the middle-classes in 12 different countries between the 1950s and 1970s. It investigates the role of models, actors and policies that shaped the middle-class city, tracing geographies, chronologies and forms of development that often cross national frontiers. This study is particularly relevant today within the context of "fragilization" which affects the middle-classes, challenging, as it does, the urban role played by this residential heritage in the light of technological obsolescence, trends in patterns of homeownership, as well as social and generational changes.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Gaia Caramellino • Federico Zanfi
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	448
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-431594-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	3-03-431594-5
Barcode:	9783034315944

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