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Freedomland
In Freedomland
, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City's story from the
perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who
made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideals of
economic and social justice.
Located on the grounds of the former Freedomland
amusement park on the northeastern edge of the Bronx, Co-op City's
35 towers and 236 townhouses have been home to hundreds of
thousands of New Yorkers and is an icon visible to all traveling on
the east coast corridor.
In 1965, Co-op City was planned as the largest middle-class
housing development in the United States. It was intended as a
solution to the problem of affordable housing in America's largest
city. While Co-op City first appeared to be a huge success story
for integrated, middle-class housing, tensions would lead its
residents to organize the largest rent strike in American history.
In 1975, a coalition of shareholders took on New York State and,
against all odds, secured resident control. Much to the dismay of
many denizens of the complex, even this achievement did not halt
either rising costs or white flight. Nevertheless, after the
challenges of the 1970s and 1980s, the cooperative achieved a
hard-won stability as the twentieth century came to a close.
Freedomland chronicles the tumultuous first quarter
century of Co-op City's existence. Sammartino's narrative connects
planning, economic, and political history and the history of race
in America. The result is a new perspective on twentieth-century
New York City.
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At home in postwar France
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home.At Home in Postwar Franceexamines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of theTrente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the \"right to comfort\" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.
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The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning
The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies.
This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.
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The Economic Implications of Housing Supply
In this essay, we review the basic economics of housing supply and the functioning of US housing markets to better understand the distribution of home prices, household wealth, and the spatial distribution of people across markets. We employ a cost-based approach to gauge whether a housing market is delivering appropriately priced units. Specifically, we investigate whether market prices (roughly) equal the costs of producing the housing unit. If so, the market is well-functioning in the sense that it efficiently delivers housing units at their production cost. The gap between price and production cost can be understood as a regulatory tax. The available evidence suggests, but does not definitively prove, that the implicit tax on development created by housing regulations is higher in many areas than any reasonable negative externalities associated with new construction. We discuss two main effects of developments in housing prices: on patterns of household wealth and on the incentives for relocation to high-wage, high-productivity areas. Finally, we turn to policy implications.
Journal Article
Mapping changes in housing in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015
Access to adequate housing is a fundamental human right, essential to human security, nutrition and health, and a core objective of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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. Globally, the housing need is most acute in Africa, where the population will more than double by 2050. However, existing data on housing quality across Africa are limited primarily to urban areas and are mostly recorded at the national level. Here we quantify changes in housing in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015 by combining national survey data within a geostatistical framework. We show a marked transformation of housing in urban and rural sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2015, with the prevalence of improved housing (with improved water and sanitation, sufficient living area and durable construction) doubling from 11% (95% confidence interval, 10–12%) to 23% (21–25%). However, 53 (50–57) million urban Africans (47% (44–50%) of the urban population analysed) were living in unimproved housing in 2015. We provide high-resolution, standardized estimates of housing conditions across sub-Saharan Africa. Our maps provide a baseline for measuring change and a mechanism to guide interventions during the era of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The prevalence of improved housing (with improved drinking water and sanitation, sufficient living area and durable construction) in urban and rural sub-Saharan Africa doubled between 2000 and 2015.
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