In London, a leading capital of global finance, there is a chronic
shortage of affordable housing. The crisis is at levels not seen
since World War II. In Beijing, capital of the twenty-first
century's political powerhouse, the displacement of long-standing
communities is a daily occurrence. In Mumbai, the biggest health
risk faced by the city today has been identified as overcrowded
housing, while in Sao Paulo, football's 2014 World Cup took place
against a backdrop of community unrest and the chronic living
conditions of the poor. The private sector, the state and residents
themselves are searching for solutions. Whether housing refugees in
conflict areas, providing safe water to the households in the
developing world or ensuring key workers can live in the cities
they support in the West, the question of housing is not only
global, but critical. This book, the third and final in the
'Housing the Future' series, is inspired by the need to deal with a
critical issue at a critical time - the provision of affordable and
decent housing. Whilst the focus of the series has been on design
approaches around housing, it will become clear in reading the
diverse contributions in this book that design cannot, and perhaps
should not, be isolated from the social, economic, political and
cultural issues that are inevitably in play when we discuss
housing. On that basis, as we will see in this book, the provision
of adequate housing can be considered as one of the most important
political problems today: an issue played out against a background
of disparate policy interventions, resistances and conflicting
aspirations; an issue involving architects, planners, developers,
sociologists, artists, housing associations, community
representatives, policy makers and more. The book comes out of the
Housing -Critical Futures research programme led by the academic
non-profit organisation AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics,
Society). It has been produced in collaboration with Swinburne
University.
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