Mass housing : modern architecture and state power - a global history /: modern architecture and state power - a global history. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Miles Glendinning.
• Authors: Glendinning, Miles, 1956-
• Contents: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of InterviewsINTRODUCTION Cuius regio, eius religio – the multiple modernities of housingMass housing – spearhead of radical modernisationMethodological challenges and constraints: balancing narrative and geography PART A: MID 19th-CENTURY TO 1945 - The gathering storm 1. Pre-1914: The Long Mobilisation Mid 19th-century innovators and experimentsLate 19th- early 20th century ideologies: public housing and arm's length buildingThe dual market: working-class tenements and middle-class apartments in North AmericaHousing and colonialism: building for rulers or the ruled?The upsurge in emergencies: 1905-1914 2. 1914-1945 The maturing of mass housing in the age of emergencies Systematisation and individualism: the emergence of modern mass housingWorld War I: war socialism and rent controlThe Hare and the Tortoise: municipal housing in 'Red Vienna' and BritainContinental permutations in the 1920sTotalitarian housing visions in the Great DepressionDemocratic housing systems of the 1930sInterwar Latin America and the coloniesWorld War II – The globalisation of emergency PART B: 1945-1989 - The 'Three Worlds' of postwar mass housing 3. Postwar mass housing: an introductory overview First World, Second World, Third WorldInternational modernism: from global to local 4. Housing by Authority – post-war state interventions in the 'Anglosphere' Red scares, race scares – the brief heyday and long retreat of US public housingNew York City – the monumental exceptionLocal trajectories of renewal and decline Canada: government intervention and the revival of renting'Big Daddy' and mass housing in Metro TorontoNew Zealand and AustraliaCommonwealth and state: the CSHAHigh flats and slum reclamation in Victoria and New South Wales 5. Council Powers: postwar public housing in Britain and Ireland Central and municipal Postwar housing design in EnglandSlum clearance, planning and the 'land-trap' Financing and organising high flats in the 'sixties London and the English citiesScotland: the legacy of 'Red Clydeside' Island diversity: Ireland and the Channel Islands 6. France: the Trente Glorieuses of mass housing 1945-55 – A hesitant revivalSCIC, SCET and the état planificateur'Le hard french': the housing legacy of Perret1955-75: 'grands ensembles' and the industrialisation of national grandeur 7. The Low Countries – pillars of modern mass housing Socialist skyscrapers versus Catholic cottages: postwar housing in BelgiumThe Netherlands: planned housing and 'polder politics'Standardisation and galerijbouw: postwar Dutch housing design 8.Stability and Continuity: West Germany and the alpine countries Tenure-neutral building in Switzerland and AustriaWest Germany: the housing of soziale Marktwirtschaft 'Wohnungen, Wohnungen und nochmals Wohnungen' - Neue Heimat and 1950s-70s production 9. The Nordic countries – social versus individual? Building the 'Folkhem' – housing and Social Democracy in SwedenDenmark: modernisation through quiet qualityFinland, Norway and Iceland – mass housing for the individual 10. Southern Europe – social housing for kinship societies The progressive South: postwar housing in Italy and MaltaINA-Casa: the Christian Democratic housing visionLeft Turn? 1960s-70s 'comprehensive' planning in ItalyThe conservative South: postwar housing in Spain, Portugal, Greece and TurkeyConclusion: First World housing in summary 11. The USSR: Developed Socialism and Extensive Urbanism 'Quickly, Cheaply and Well' – Soviet housing under Khrushchev and BrezhnevThe curate's egg – national and local housing production in the postwar Soviet UnionOrder out of chaos? central and private-sector initiativesMonumentality and space in postwar Soviet housingSNiP and DSK – standardisation and industrialisation Taming the colossus: towards 'complexity' and 'flexibility' A brotherly mosaic – regionalist housing in the USSRTashkent – model Soviet citySoviet housing in the perestroika years 12. A quarrelsome family: the European socialist states The satellite bloc: from dissidence to decompositionThe diversity of socialist standardisationSocialist outliers: European divergences from the Soviet modelThe 'Ongoing Revolution' – self-management and monumentality in YugoslaviaNovi Beograd – epicentre of decentralismLate socialist cluster-developments across the Yugoslav republics 13. Socialist Eastern Asia: mass housing and the Sino-Soviet split Danwei: fragmentation and austerity in Chinese socialist housing From the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution: austerity and anarchy'Soviet' Asia: Mongolia and North Vietnam Building at 'Pyongyang speed': housing in Juche KoreaConclusion: Second World housing in summary14. Latin America – chameleon continent Mass housing and the politics of charismatic leadership, 1945-1964Housing as social security: pre-1964 Brazil1960s Cold-War housing politics in Latin AmericaOrder and Progress? Post-1964 housing in Brazil, Argentina and Chile 15. Echoes of empire – postwar housing in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa The Middle East: decolonisation and developmentIsrael: creating a 'new geography' through public housingIndia and South Asia: building on colonial bureaucracyCapital colonies: post-independence DelhiBombay/Mumbai and MHADA: pressure-cooker buildingSub-Saharan Africa: colonialism's last stand'Progressive' housing decolonisation in francophone AfricaDivide and rule? Segregation and mass housing in 'British' AfricaSouth Africa: segregated housing in a siege society 6. From Third World to First World: mass housing in capitalist Eastern Asia Towards the developmental state – postwar housing in Japan Housing the 'Asian Tigers''Housing Gangnam-style': South Korea's tanji revolutionHong Kong and Singapore – a study in sibling rivalryShek Kip Mei and Bukit Ho Swee: from resettlement to home-ownershipRace to the Top: HDB and HKHA architectureFirst cousin: Macau PART C: 1989 TO THE PRESENT - Retrenchment and renewal 17. Resilience and renewal: mass housing into the 21st century IntroductionThe aftermath: mass housing at bay in the former First and Second WorldsResidual mass housing in the Global South 18. Race to the top: the new Asian developmentalism TOKi and AKP TurkeyDevelopmental Eastern Asia into the 21st centuryBuilding for the 'Mass Line': social housing in 21st-century China 19. Conclusion: global and national, idealism and realpolitik Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 720.103; Architecture and society; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture and state; Public housing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474229289
• Related ISBNs: 9781474229272; 9781474222501
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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