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Making room for people: choice, voice and liveability in residential areas
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Abstract Making Room for People elaborates on preferences in housing. It explores how users, occupants, and citizens can express their needs, searching for the enhancement of individual choice and control over their residential environment, and the predicted positive spin-off's for urban collectives. The cen... view more
Making Room for People elaborates on preferences in housing. It explores how users, occupants, and citizens can express their needs, searching for the enhancement of individual choice and control over their residential environment, and the predicted positive spin-off's for urban collectives. The central question is: What are the conditions under which an increase of people's choice and voice over the places they inhabit contribute to more liveable urban areas? The options to make choices and to have a say in urban design and housing matters are used as a conceptual framework. 'Choice' and 'voice' are the main concepts that structure the empirical material.... view less
Keywords
urban development; citizens' participation; segregation; neighborhood; housing preference; urban planning; town; living conditions; public housing; housing market; urban renewal; public space; housing quality
Classification
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
urban regeneration; neighbourhood involvement; co-housing; community empowerment; participatory planning; citizen participation; self-construction
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Techne Press
City
Amsterdam
Page/Pages
195 p.
ISBN
978-90-8594-044-9
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works