Sansen, Joren, author.

Collective housing : a new habitat for living in Brussels / Joren Sansen & Michael Ryckewaert ; with contributions by Benoit Moritz, Yves Van de Casteele and Benoît Périlleux.

Brussels : VUBPress, [2021]
©2021

196 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.

Urban notebooks = Stadsschriften = Cahiers urbains

"In Brussels, the need for affordable and middle-income housing is entangled with the necessity to reduce the environmental impact of housing. The current climatological and health crises demand us to improve the resilience of our human habitat in the city. In planning and developing new collective housing projects, private and public developers alike are struggling to find the right answer to these questions. In this book, we present a research that identifies mismatches between housing preferences and housing offer. These mismatches are affected by the design of collective housing projects and by how they are produced. By confronting the Brussels' examples with cases from Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Hamburg we identify alternative design and organisation strategies. The cases offer examples to design collective and circulation spaces that mitigate privacy issues and allow multiple use, and show how residents and intermediaries in Baugruppen or cooperatives take responsibility in housing development, design, and management. The book concludes with a reflection of how these lessons learned could be implemented in Brussels' housing and urban planning policy."--Back cover.

9789461170972 (soft back)
9461170971

Apartment houses Belgium Brussels.
Apartment houses Designs and plans.
Housing Belgium Brussels.
City planning Belgium Brussels.
Housing policy Belgium Brussels.
Housing Environmental aspects Belgium Brussels.
Housing policy Europe Case studies.
Sustainable urban development Europe Case studies.
City planning Europe Case studies.
Housing development Belgium Brussels.
Dwellings Belgium Brussels.
Urban policy Belgium Brussels.
Promotion résidentielle Belgique Bruxelles.
Habitations Belgique Bruxelles.
Logement Politique gouvernementale Belgique Bruxelles.
Politique urbaine Belgique Bruxelles.
Immeubles d'habitation Belgique Bruxelles.
Logement Politique gouvernementale Europe Études de cas.
Urbanisme durable Europe Études de cas.
Housing Planning
Planned communities
Housing development Planning
City planning
Belgium Brussels
Denmark Copenhagen
Netherlands Amsterdam
Germany Hamburg

Ryckewaert, Michael, author.
Moritz, Benoît, contributor.
Casteele, Yves van de, contributor.
Périlleux, Benoît, contributor.
Cahiers urbains.

Location: Library main 316846
Call No.: 316846
Copy: 1
Status: Available