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Questions on dwelling, discourse 01: What it takes to make a home

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The documentary film "What It Takes to Make A Home" (2020, conceived by Giovanna Borasi of the CCA and directed by Daniel Schwartz) follows a conversation between two architects whose work addresses homelessness. Michael Maltzan in Los Angeles and Alexander Hagner in Vienna have both designed long-term housing, exploring and embodying various strategies for social integration, mental health, and inclusive architectural-urban schemes. Questions on Dwelling screened the film in full and held a conversation at feldfünf Berlin with actors engaged in homelessness in Berlin. In that conversation, they tried to address the successes and failures of the film, architecture’s role and complicity in exacerbating the financialization of housing, the criminalization of urban space, and its entanglement with the privatization of the city. The transcript of that conversation was documented in this bilingual booklet.

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Questions on dwelling, reprint 01: Blood/Crips proposal for L.A.'s face-lift

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The "Reprints" series seek to recirculate un- or under-documented writings on the city or space, typically those authored by non-architects. Questions on Dwellings acquire permission where possible, and publish under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) copyright. Reprint 01: "Bloods/Crips Proposal for L.A.’s Face-lift," originally written in 1992. The booklet includes an editorial essay for context. Both the proposal and essay are inclued in German translation.

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Pour un urbanisme du care: L'attention à l'autre pour refaire société

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A partir de réflexions théoriques, de récits personnels et d'expériences de terrain, l'auteur propose de construire autrement, en privilégiant des villes qui reposent sur les relations humaines, la solidarité et la réponse aux besoins locaux.

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Feeling at home: Transforming the politics of housing

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Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest, eat, and relax. The home we enjoy can determine our health, life expectancy, and day-to-day well-being. In contrast, the lack of a stable residence can lead to mental and physical illness and often premature death. This is central to how we conceive of a good and dignified life. "Feeling at home" grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagine success without home ownership? Alva Gotby makes clear that solving the housing crisis is about much more than housing stock. It is about revolutionising our everyday lives and labours.

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House precinct territory: Design strategies for the productive city

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With buildings and cities being one of the primary accelerators of climate change, the tightening of urban environments is one of the mechanisms by which architects and urban planners can affect change. To date, models of urban densification and compact cities have been focused on sites of urban consumption—residential, commercial, civic and social spaces. Little thought has been given to the vast productive hinterlands around the world that support cities, through the growing of food, generation of power, production of goods and disposal of waste. Working through three scales of analysis, across three cities in the Asia Pacific Region, and deploying varying design research techniques ranging from critical observation to speculative scenario modeling, the book presents a series of projects that seek to retro-fit an existing urban environment with a productive program.

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Home truths: Fixing Canada's housing crisis

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This is the book that Canadians must read to understand, and solve, our housing crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune. Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart. Rising prices force long-time residents to move elsewhere, while established businesses are forced to close their doors because they cannot find staff who can afford to live nearby. In "Home truths", housing expert Carolyn Whitzman explores Canada’s crisis from all sides, including defining what adequate housing looks like, explaining why nonmarket housing is crucial for Canada, and outlining how and why to tackle ever-growing wealth disparities between renters and those who own.

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Droit de cité : De la « ville-monde » à la « ville du quart d'heure »

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Carlos Moreno, chercheur et expert en urbanisme, est le créateur du concept de la « ville du quart d'heure », reconnu mondialement. Il propose une ville polycentrique où les six fonctions sociales essentielles - habiter, travailler, s'approvisionner, se soigner, s'éduquer, s'épanouir - sont accessibles en courte distance. En initiant un débat global, il analyse la ville comme un laboratoire complexe et dynamique, concentrant la majorité de la population mondiale et les grands enjeux de développement - environnementaux, culturels, technologiques, et économiques. Pris en tenaille par les défis du siècle, les territoires urbains doivent changer de paradigme de toute urgence.. Carlos Moreno explore les stratégies pour un bien-vivre urbain, définissant les enjeux des mutations accélérées par l'urbanisation.

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Futuring spaces of possibility: Contemporary art and architecture in a world heritage city

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How to deal with transformation and degrowth in a city whose boundaries have been shaped by its medieval history? How to question dominant histories, use underutilised public space and set in motion new cohabitations in the city? This book is published on the occasion of Bruges Triennial 2024: ''Spaces of Possibility'', curated by Shendy Gardin and Sevie Tsampalla. Featuring contributions by the twelve artists and architects in the exhibition, it offers insights into the research processes behind the commissions, through texts, archival images, preparatory sketches and interviews. Newly commissioned essays address issues of urban transformation and the role that contemporary art, architecture and exhibition-making can play for futuring cities marked by their heritage.

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Écologie humaine : Une science sociale des milieux de vie

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En livrant une généalogie de la pensée écologique dans les sciences sociales et en l’illustrant par une série d’enquêtes, cet ouvrage défend trois approches complémentaires de l’étude des milieux de vie humains. Il revient, d’abord, à Chicago, aux origines de l’écologie humaine, quand ont été forgés les premiers outils d’analyse statistique et cartographique des territoires urbains et suburbains. Il rend compte, ensuite, d’une anthropologie des mondes sociaux, avec leurs espaces de vie et leurs histoires de vie : une série de cas d’étude, de la banlieue parisienne à Bruxelles, Hollywood ou Hambourg, démontre ici la fécondité de cette ethnographie des milieux de vie. Il propose, enfin, une troisième perspective qui combine une sémiologie et une psychologie écologiques. Centrée sur les corps des citadins et les champs d’expérience à leurs entours, elle décrit leurs façons de s’ancrer dans différentes espèces d’espaces, de les percevoir et de les transformer. Ces territoires, lieux d’appropriation, d’expérimentation et de protestation, sont aussi des terrains de conquête et de résistance : l’écologie humaine s’ouvre alors au droit à la ville. Trois perspectives sur l’écologie humaine qui explorent comment les sociétés humaines sculptent leurs milieux de vie.

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Against landlords: How to solve the housing crisis

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"Against landlords" overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which boosts house prices and makes tenancy unaffordable. Furthermore, building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law, and legal reforms must sweep away the rot at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life.