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This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people-based and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy.
List of contents
1. Affordable Housing and the Future of Cities
Part I Cities and Affordable Housing 2. Montréal: Building an Inclusive City 3. Affordable Housing and Diversity in Vancouver 4. Affordable Housing Transition in Calgary 5. Affordable Housing Challenges: The Experience of the City of Edmonton 6. Reponses to Toronto's Affordable Housing Challenge: Mobilizing for Action
Part II Mixed-Income Affordable Housing and Community Building 7. Mix and Match: A Framework for Understanding Mixed-Income Outcomes 8. Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. 9. Paris Habitat's Experience of Urban Regeneration to Create Affordable Housing 10. Toronto: Revitalization in Regent Park 12 Years Later
Part III Affordable Housing Partnerships in Practice 11. Mixed-Income Housing in New York City: Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons of an Enduring Mayoral Commitment 12. Partnerships for Affordable Housing in English Cities 13. Resilience of Social Housing Systems in Vienna, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen
Part IV Design Innovation in Affordable Housing 14. Thinking "Outside the Box" about Affordable Homes and Communities 15. Affordable Housing and Design Innovation: A View from Paris 16. Affordable Housing Design + A New Urban Era in European Cities 17. Amsterdam: More than a Social Housing Project
Part V Perspectives on Policy Design for Affordable Housing 18. Pathways of Dutch and German Social Renting 19. Social Sustainability in Social and Affordable Housing 20. Private Rental Housing in Canada's Four Largest Metropolitan Areas: Trends and Prospects
About the author
Sasha Tsenkova is Professor of Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, University of Calgary, Canada. She has published extensively on housing and urban issues and has worked for international organisations on projects in Europe, North America and Central Asia.
Summary
This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people-based and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy.
