Getting our Hands into the Flesh of the Contemporary City

Contents

The Middle-Class Project: Designing New Ways of Living

in the Post-War City ... 17

I. Cultures, Standards, Practices

Lionel Engrand

I.1 The Middle-Class Dwelling Unit: Architectural Theory,

Lifestyle and Marketing in France, 1945–1965 ... 39

Luca Molinari, Chiara Ingrosso

I.2 The ‘Residential Park’ as a New Model for the Emerging

Middle-Class in Naples During the 1950s ... 63

Ioanna Theocharopoulou

I.3 A Social and Cultural Reading of the Athenian

Polykatoikia, 1949–1974 ... 87

Daniel Rincón De La Vega

I.4 Spanish Post-Civil War Middle-Class Housing:

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II. Policies, Processes, Actors

Anahi Ballent

II.1 Apartment Buildings for the Middle-Class.

Cultural Transformation of Domestic Life

and Urban Densification in Buenos Aires ... 145

Juliette Spertus, Susanne Schindler

II.2 Co-op City and Twin Parks: Two Models for Middle-Class

Housing in the Bronx in the 1970s ... 167

Marieke Van Rooij

II.3 Dutch New Town Almere Haven: A Search for the

Accommodation of the Suburban Wishes of the

Middle-Classes in the 1970s ... 191

Ana Vaz Milheiro, Filipa Fiúza,

Rogério Vieira de Almeida, Débora Félix

II.4 ‘Radieuse’ Peripheries: A Comparative Study on

Middle-Class Housing in Luanda, Lisbon and Macao ... 211

III. House Biographies

Eveline Althaus, Marie Antoinette Glaser

III.1 Legacies of Modernism. House Biographies of Large

Post-War Residential Complexes in Switzerland ... 243

Els De Vos

III.2 Multiple Versions of Modernity in Post-War Belgium.

The Housing Estate of Ban Eik ... 263

Filippo De Pieri

III.3 “Stories of Houses”: Observing Post-War Middle-Class

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IV. Scenarios

Jonathan Massey

IV.1 Housing Risk: Neoliberal Homeownership

in the United States ... 309

Matthew Soules IV.2 Deconstructing Liveability. Perspectives from Central Vancouver ... 329

Wouter Bervoets, Marijn van de Weijer IV.3 The Future of the Post-War Single-Family House: The Case of Flanders ... 351

Federico Zanfi Afterword Getting our Hands into the Flesh of the Contemporary City ... 369

Notes on the Authors ... 385

Bibliography ... 393

Index of Names ... 433