Adaptive Re-Use: Strategies for Post-War Modernist Housing
Maren Harnack, Natalie Heger, Matthias Brunner (Editors)
Jovis, April 2021

Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches | 144 pages | 60 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783868596113 | 29.80?

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
In prosperous regions, housing markets are under significant pressure. With the focus on preserving land and developing brownfield sites, post-war housing estates are being earmarked for densification, as their density is perceived as rather low and the ownership is often concentrated in the hands of only a few publicly owned housing associations. In this setting, post-war estates are in danger of losing their characteristic spatial structures and landscaping.
Adaptive Re-Use discusses strategies for the development of post-war housing by referring to European case studies from the period of 1945 to 1975. The contributions in this edited volume show how housing estates from different European countries are listed and preserved, and how architectural fabric can be adapted to meet today?s needs. REFERRAL LINKS:
   

dDAB COMMENTARY:
The New York City neighborhood where I live is one of many that has been rezoned by the Department of City Planning in recent years. So residential streets with row upon row of two-story buildings, for instance, are seeing more and more of them either added to or torn down and replaced with three- or four-story buildings. To me, climate change and global warming point to ...