Post-War Middle-Class Housing: Models, Construction and Change

Gaia Caramellino (Curatore)

Federico Zanfi (Curatore)

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016

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.

• Curatore: Gaia Caramellino, Federico Zanfi
• Editore: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 448 p.
• Dimensioni: 225 x 150 mm
• Peso: 900 gr.
• EAN: 9783034315944

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