Housing and the city / edited by Katharina Borsi, [and 3 others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. The modern housing project in an international context -- Introduction to part 1: the modern housing in an international context -- Section 1.1 Formations -- Language logics: housing in translation -- Health, tuberculosis, and the city: strategies to approach the dwelling hygiene of Berlin, 1882-1914 -- The concept of type in Hellerau Garden City -- The logic of the norm: LCC urban housing during the interwar period -- Section 1.2 Modernism and ideology -- How can space be ideological? Communal housing projects in Vienna -- From the cell to the territory: the 'disurbanist' project of the OSA group -- Revolution begins at home: new housing typologies and collectivisation of life in post-WWII Tehran -- Kiryat Meir, the first middle-class cooperative housing complex in Tel Aviv -- Section 1.3 Housing and the city in the welfare state -- Type and the collective space of the housing project -- Open building and user agency: early and contemporary experiments in the Netherlands -- Public-private partnerships and medium-density housing in North Melbourne, Australia: from Hotham Gardens, 1959, to northside communities, 2021 -- Housing mid-century Irish publics: some paradigms -- Part 2. Collective types and urban areas -- Introduction to part 2: collective types and urban areas -- Section 2.1 Collective inhabitations -- Ahmedabad Pols and the transindividual -- Hidden commons: hutong inversions -- Resilient structure, collective form: residential and studio building at the former Berlin flower market -- Together! Potentials for cooperative housing and self-organisation -- Section 2.2 Living and working -- Productive morphologies and intersecting voids -- Open city/closed city -- The city within the home: Otto Steidle's Genter Strasse houses.

"Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of the twentieth century modern housing project and its social diagram, juxtaposed with case studies from the past and the present that suggest that we can live and work differently. While the contributions are diverse in their theoretical approach and geographical situation, their juxtaposition yields transversal connections in the conception of the home and the city and highlights the diversity of architectural solutions in the formation of housing and its communities. The collection of papers also yields architecture's contribution to the construction of the self and communities, the individual and the collective - as both urban spatial entities and socio-political concepts. Housing and the City provides essential reading for students, academics and practitioners interested in the history, theory or current design of housing. At a time when cities are witnessing new ways of working, changing social demographics, increased geographical mobility and mass migrations, as well as the pervasive threat of the climate crisis - all trends exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic - Housing and the City presents a historical and theoretical reflection on the question: what does it mean to be at home in the city in the twenty-first century?"-- Provided by publisher.