TY - BOOK ID - 21825833 TI - Post-war middle-class housing : models, construction and change AU - Caramellino, Gaia AU - Zanfi, Federico PY - 2015 SN - 9783034315944 9783035108408 3034315945 PB - Bern : Peter Lang, DB - UniCat KW - Dwellings KW - Middle class KW - Classes moyennes KW - History KW - Logement KW - dwellings KW - Private houses KW - post-1945 architecture and design styles and movements KW - Environmental planning KW - middle class KW - urban landscapes KW - Sociology of environment KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - E-books KW - Housing KW - Histoire KW - Reconstruction KW - Histoire de l'habitat KW - Classe sociale UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21825833 AB - 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. ER -