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OverviewAffordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe societal problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in old housing stocks planned to be densified, renovated, or upgraded with higher rents, are forced to leave the urban core centers because they can no longer afford to live in central locations, or because they experience unstable or insecure housing conditions. A scenario that is highly unsustainable. So far, studies on densification have mainly considered the process as technological, architectural, or design-based problem (e.g., Kyttä et al., 2013; Broitman & Koomen, 2015; Bibby et al., 2018). However, systematic knowledge on how to implement densification objectives sustainably – regarding economic, environmental, and social aspects – is still lacking. This book tackles this gap by analyzing densification from a governance perspective. Its point of departure is that densification per se does not necessarily lead to sustainable outcomes in terms of social inclusion, cohesion, or community stability. Rather, it politicizes densification by neglecting how the process is planned, implemented, and governed by the actors involved. The book applies an actors-centered neoinstitutionalist political ecology approach to reveal the specific objectives and strategies of actors involved, as well as the socio-political structures (i.e. rules. laws, and policies) that govern densification. Four Swiss in-depth empirical qualitative case studies (Zürich, Basel, Köniz, and Kloten) illustrate the political and legal conditions for success or failure for (un)sustainable implementations of densification. Ultimately, this book advises stakeholders, governments, urban practitioners, and academics on more effective, community-oriented, collective, and decommodified forms of governance to respond to the needs of the public at large rather than simply catering to private individuals and firms. Such governance initiatives entail active municipal land policy approaches outside a purely market-based investment logic that not only limit, but also work with property rights. This is an open access book. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gabriela DebrunnerPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2024 Weight: 0.539kg ISBN: 9783031490132ISBN 10: 3031490134 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 01 January 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Push towards urban densification evokes social exclusion in housing.- Chapter 2. Part I: Theoretical approach: Actors-centered new institutionalist political ecology.- Part II: Analytical framework: The Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) and its focus on property rights.- Chapter 3. The Irr Applied To Housing: Governing Densification For Socially Sustainable Housing Development.- Chapter 4. Study design & methodological approach: Densification and urban housing development in Switzerland.- Chapter 5. Study design & methodology: learning from the Swiss scarce land use situation.- Chapter 6. Discussion of key results.- Chapter 7. Final conclusion: governance mechanisms for socially sustainable urban densification.ReviewsAuthor InformationGabriela Debrunner has a PhD in geography with a focus on spatial planning and political urbanism. She works as a postdoc, lecturer, and research associate at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development (IRL) at ETH Zurich. In her research, Gabriela Debrunner deals with the overarching question of how the city as a social space works from an urban governance perspective. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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