Post-war middle-class housing : models, construction and change / edited by Gaia Caramellino, Federico Zanfi.

Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2015]

446 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

"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."-- Back cover.

9783034315944 (paperback)
3034315945
9783035108408 (eBook)

Housing History 20th century.
Middle class Housing History 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic History 20th century.
Housing.
Architecture, Domestic.
Middle class Housing.

History.

Caramellino, Gaia, 1977- editor.
Zanfi, Federico editor.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 293651
Cote: BIB 238763
Statut: Disponible