TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gaia Caramellino
AU  - Federico Zanfi
PY  - 2015
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035108408
TI  - Post-War Middle-Class Housing
T2  - Models, Construction and Change
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0840-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053188
N2  - 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.
KW  - Residential Park, Franco, Spanish post war, Middle Class
LA  - English
ER  -