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Local Housing Policies and Corporate Social Financial Logics: Insights from the Financialization of Housing in Barcelona Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Georgia Alexandri, Michael Janoschka
This article explores the way local states can challenge the process of housing financialization, by focusing on policy innovation for housing vulnerability. Building upon theoretical discourses th...
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Behavioural Aspects of Price Expectations and the Anchoring Effect on the Housing Market – Polish Case Study Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Joanna Waszczuk
Housing is a heterogeneous good, which makes choosing a house a complex process. An unexplained variability of the housing prices led to growing interest in studying prices and price expectations f...
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Seven propositions about ‘generation rent’ Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Amber Howard
Intergenerational disparities in housing have emerged across countries, giving rise to narratives of “generation rent”. Despite popularization of the term across academia and public discourse, it r...
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Exploring Cultural Determinants of Tenure Decisions: Evidence from an Owning-Centric Context Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Hasniyati Hamzah, Mohd Nazari Ismail, Rini Novelia Suawa
Most countries are still nations of homeowners, i.e. owning-centric despite home ownership being an economically irrational tenure due to its long-term financial risk. Seemingly, pre-existing socia...
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Towards Transversal Housing Solidarities Across Space, Time and Subjects Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Matina Kapsali
The paper documents the emergence of precarious local and migrant tenants as political subjects that build transversal housing solidarities in Greek cities amidst multiple intersecting crises. In d...
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How Can Scholarship Contribute to Housing Justice? Three Roles for Researchers Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Pratichi Chatterjee, Alistair Sisson, Jenna Condie
This article discusses three ways that research, within and outside academia, can contribute to housing activism. First, we discuss the role that documentation, using non-traditional methods such a...
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Housing Movements, Commons and ‘Precarious Institutionalization’ Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Mara Ferreri
Understanding the relationship between struggles for housing justice and alternative housing models is riddled with epistemological and methodological challenges. A posteriori definitions of specif...
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Picturing a Home: A New Perspective on Home-Making Through Photo-Elicitation Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Alexandra Stout, Damian Collins
The photo-elicitation method can provide rich insights into home-making – the process whereby residents use, modify and personalize domestic space. However, previous studies have prioritized the wo...
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“Resetting” the Neighbourhood: Residents’ Resistance to Place Destruction in Gränby, Uppsala Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Åse Richard
By following tenants who resist the destruction of their common yards in a post-renoviction neighbourhood of Uppsala (Sweden), this article examines how the local resistance by marginalized communi...
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DIY Housing Studies Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Renee Tapp
In response to Javier Moreno Zacarés’ paper, I argue for a more empirically engaged and policy-relevant political economy of housing. This is necessary given the global transformation of housing fr...
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On Ideal Types, Abstraction and Noise in the Political Economy of Housing Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Manuel B. Aalbers
Javier Moreno’s “Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework” does a great job at distilling how two opposite logics – capitalist production and rent extraction – are at work in housing...
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Are Landlords so Different? Comments on Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Michael Ball
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Labour, Financialization, and Rent in the Construction Industry: Towards a Hybrid Framework of Accumulation Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Aretousa Bloom
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Dialogues on Residential Accumulation: Housing Provision, Theory & Political Economy Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Timothy Blackwell
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Javier Moreno Zacarés
Although housing plays a pivotal role in global capitalism, the theoretical links between housing research and political economy remain tenuous. Building on the recent revival of rent theory, this ...
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Political Economy in Housing Studies: Geography or History? Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Callum Ward
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Land, Abstraction, and Housing Provision Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Javier Moreno Zacarés
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Interpreting the Changing Meaning of the Peri-Urban Holiday House: The Complex and Paradoxical Nature of Housing Financialisation Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Deborah Levy, Harvey C Perkins, Jane Horan
In recent studies of housing financialisation, a “financial paradox” has been identified in which owner-occupied houses are simultaneously places of ontological security and financial investment. T...
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On the Land Value Capture: Politics of Land Use in the Global North and South Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Paulo Nascimento Neto, Luis Salinas Arreortua, Tomás Moreira, Frederico Lago Burnett
Land Value Capture (LVC) in the Global South has long been a subject of long-standing debate, primarily driven by the need to address uneven urbanization and finance public investments. Despite its...
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Intergenerational Assistance with Home Ownership: Understanding the Relational Development of Financialized Subjectivities Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Julia Cook, Louise Overton
Recently scholars have turned their attention to the role of intergenerational financial assistance in facilitating entry into home ownership for young adults. This practice has been identified as ...
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The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Inés Gutiérrez-Cueli, Javier Gil, Miguel A. Martínez, Ángela García-Bernardos
Impoverished and working-class migrant women have been the hardest hit and most exploited people during both the real estate-financial accumulation cycle and the aftermath of the 2008 crisis in Spa...
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The Housing Struggle of Working-Class Migrant Women in Spain Through a Double Horizon of Political Temporality Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Inés Gutiérrez-Cueli, Javier Gil, Miguel A. Martínez, Ángela García-Bernardos
Impoverished and working-class migrant women have been the hardest hit and most exploited people during both the real estate-financial accumulation cycle and the aftermath of the 2008 crisis in Spa...
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The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Bronwen Lichtenstein, Joe Weber
Scant attention has been paid to the racial impacts of bankruptcy and foreclosure in the United States. This article examines the links between bankruptcy, housing loss, and “risk responsibilizatio...
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The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Bronwen Lichtenstein, Joe Weber
Scant attention has been paid to the racial impacts of bankruptcy and foreclosure in the United States. This article examines the links between bankruptcy, housing loss, and “risk responsibilizatio...
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Recognitional Relations and Autonomy-Related Vulnerabilities in a Temporary Accommodation Service for Homeless People Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mikko Ilmoniemi
This article examines a temporary accommodation service for homeless people in Finland. By building on institutional ethnography, it aims to map the relations that coordinate the everyday work and ...
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Recognitional Relations and Autonomy-Related Vulnerabilities in a Temporary Accommodation Service for Homeless People Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mikko Ilmoniemi
This article examines a temporary accommodation service for homeless people in Finland. By building on institutional ethnography, it aims to map the relations that coordinate the everyday work and ...
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The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Joshua Evans, Pablo Wikander
It took 50+ years of federal housing policy and municipal planning to transform Canada into a homeownership society. Over the past three decades, these efforts also coincided with significant perio...
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The Housing Vulnerability Deadlock: A View from Canada Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Joshua Evans, Pablo Wikander
It took 50+ years of federal housing policy and municipal planning to transform Canada into a homeownership society. Over the past three decades, these efforts also coincided with significant perio...
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Intersecting Barriers: The Production of Housing Vulnerability for LGBTQ Refugees in Alberta, Canada Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Kenna McDowell, Damian Collins
Canada’s National Housing Strategy acknowledges that identity factors are closely connected to housing vulnerability. Specifically, it identifies 12 groups at heightened risk of negative housing ou...
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Negotiating Urban Greening Through Housing Development: Stakeholders and Sociospatial Strategies in a Municipality-Led Eco-Building Programme Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Chihsin Chiu
Existing studies neglect the state-society relations in urban greening, particularly as mediated by residential greening practices. This article fills this gap by investigating the Taichung City Li...
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An Anarchist Approach to Addressing Housing Precarity: Implementing Anarchist Strategies to Program Efforts for Housing Justice Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Jayne Malenfant, Hannah Brais
The right to housing is fraught with impositions of market housing logic: our solutions to housing generally imply that people must be housed in conventional housing markets, with a goal that they ...
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Housing Financialization and the State, in and Beyond Southern Europe: A Conceptual and Operational Framework Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Simone Tulumello, Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou
This article sets out a conceptual/operational framework designed to analyse how the state has enabled, promoted and shaped housing financialization. We build on the systematic analysis of literatu...
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An Anarchist Approach to Addressing Housing Precarity: Implementing Anarchist Strategies to Program Efforts for Housing Justice Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Jayne Malenfant, Hannah Brais
The right to housing is fraught with impositions of market housing logic: our solutions to housing generally imply that people must be housed in conventional housing markets, with a goal that they ...
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Housing Financialization and the State, in and Beyond Southern Europe: A Conceptual and Operational Framework Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Simone Tulumello, Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou
This article sets out a conceptual/operational framework designed to analyse how the state has enabled, promoted and shaped housing financialization. We build on the systematic analysis of literatu...
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Property, Planning, and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ira Maya Saputri, Rizqi Aulia Fajarwati Hassan
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Property, Planning, and Protest: The Contentious Politics of Housing Supply Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ira Maya Saputri, Rizqi Aulia Fajarwati Hassan
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Housing Regime Typologies and Their Discontents: A Systematic Literature Review Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Lindsay B. Flynn, Giuseppe Montalbano
Housing regime typologies represent a key conceptual construct in the comparative housing research literature, whose classificatory and explanatory capacity is still the subject of lively debate. T...
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Housing Regime Typologies and Their Discontents: A Systematic Literature Review Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Lindsay B. Flynn, Giuseppe Montalbano
Housing regime typologies represent a key conceptual construct in the comparative housing research literature, whose classificatory and explanatory capacity is still the subject of lively debate. T...
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How Do Housing First Caseworkers Mediate Landlord-Tenant Conflicts? Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Garrett L. Grainger
Housing First (HF) is a service model that addresses chronic homelessness with permanent supportive housing. Previous studies have analysed market constraints on housing searches, strategies casewo...
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How Do Housing First Caseworkers Mediate Landlord-Tenant Conflicts? Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Garrett L. Grainger
Housing First (HF) is a service model that addresses chronic homelessness with permanent supportive housing. Previous studies have analysed market constraints on housing searches, strategies casewo...
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The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 James Scott Vandeventer, Javier Lloveras, Gary Warnaby
This paper proposes that everyday life in housing contains the possibility to shape and transform its material, cultural, and social conditions. Mobilizing a materialist ontology and insights from ...
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The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 James Scott Vandeventer, Javier Lloveras, Gary Warnaby
This paper proposes that everyday life in housing contains the possibility to shape and transform its material, cultural, and social conditions. Mobilizing a materialist ontology and insights from ...
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Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Laurence Troy
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Between Carrots And Sticks, From Intentions To Actions: Behavioural Interventions For Housing Decisions Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Helen X. H. Bao
Through a systematic and critical review of the literature, we assembled a list of behavioural biases identified in the housing market and a taxonomy of behavioural interventions tested extensively...
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Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Laurence Troy
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Between Carrots And Sticks, From Intentions To Actions: Behavioural Interventions For Housing Decisions Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Helen X. H. Bao
Through a systematic and critical review of the literature, we assembled a list of behavioural biases identified in the housing market and a taxonomy of behavioural interventions tested extensively...
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios. Why Asset Managers Own the World Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Marcin Galent
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios. Why Asset Managers Own the World Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Marcin Galent
Published in Housing, Theory and Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Well-Behaved Owners and Troublesome Tenants? How Dense Social Mixing Shapes Housing Communities and Dispels Prejudices Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Jutta Juvenius
This paper examines the kinds of boundaries laid by residents of mixed-tenure housing communities and how distinctions are rationalized. Based on interview data on a densely mixed community (both o...
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Well-Behaved Owners and Troublesome Tenants? How Dense Social Mixing Shapes Housing Communities and Dispels Prejudices Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Jutta Juvenius
This paper examines the kinds of boundaries laid by residents of mixed-tenure housing communities and how distinctions are rationalized. Based on interview data on a densely mixed community (both o...
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Making BIPOC Lives Matter: A Qualitative Analysis of Managerial Resistance to Racial Exclusions in US Homeless Systems Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Garrett L. Grainger, Erin Gaede
The way racial disparities get re/produced or challenged by homeless systems is an underexplored subject in housing studies. This paper advances scholarship on that topic by examining how homeless ...
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Making BIPOC Lives Matter: A Qualitative Analysis of Managerial Resistance to Racial Exclusions in US Homeless Systems Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Garrett L. Grainger, Erin Gaede
The way racial disparities get re/produced or challenged by homeless systems is an underexplored subject in housing studies. This paper advances scholarship on that topic by examining how homeless ...
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Co-Living, Gentlemen’s Clubs, and Residential Hotels: A Long View of Shared Housing Infrastructures for Single Young Professionals Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Tegan L. Bergan, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Emma R. Power
ABSTRACT Shared housing is an important infrastructure for young single professionals living and working in the city. Co-living is a contemporary shared housing infrastructure. But it certainly is not the first. We advocate for what Flanagan and Jacobs (2019) call taking a “long view” by drawing connections between early 19th-century gentlemen’s clubs, mid-19th-century residential hotels and contemporary
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Co-Living, Gentlemen’s Clubs, and Residential Hotels: A Long View of Shared Housing Infrastructures for Single Young Professionals Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Tegan L. Bergan, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Emma R. Power
ABSTRACT Shared housing is an important infrastructure for young single professionals living and working in the city. Co-living is a contemporary shared housing infrastructure. But it certainly is not the first. We advocate for what Flanagan and Jacobs (2019) call taking a “long view” by drawing connections between early 19th-century gentlemen’s clubs, mid-19th-century residential hotels and contemporary
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Toward a feminist housing commons? Conceptualising care - (as) - work in collaborative housing Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, M. Ferreri, J. Hudson, K. Scanlon, K. West
ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes care-(as)-work in collaborative housing and addresses current debates on the potential of cohousing to embody a feminist commons. A focus on purpose-built cohousing projects in the UK enables us to focus on the values present in the initial phases of collective design and on the ongoing negotiations and mediation that take place through social interactions, resident-led
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Toward a feminist housing commons? Conceptualising care - (as) - work in collaborative housing Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, M. Ferreri, J. Hudson, K. Scanlon, K. West
ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes care-(as)-work in collaborative housing and addresses current debates on the potential of cohousing to embody a feminist commons. A focus on purpose-built cohousing projects in the UK enables us to focus on the values present in the initial phases of collective design and on the ongoing negotiations and mediation that take place through social interactions, resident-led
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Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Maxime Felder, Guillaume Favre, Marina Tulin, Petros Koutsolampros
ABSTRACT While scholars have long established that city dwellers choose with whom to develop relationships on the basis of social proximity, spatial proximity remains the basis for neighbour relations involving greetings, social conversation, and the exchange of services. Few studies have systematically compared the respective roles of spatial and social proximity in neighbour relations. In this paper
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Acquaintances or Familiar Strangers? How Similarity and Spatial Proximity Shape Neighbour Relations within Residential Buildings Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Maxime Felder, Guillaume Favre, Marina Tulin, Petros Koutsolampros
ABSTRACT While scholars have long established that city dwellers choose with whom to develop relationships on the basis of social proximity, spatial proximity remains the basis for neighbour relations involving greetings, social conversation, and the exchange of services. Few studies have systematically compared the respective roles of spatial and social proximity in neighbour relations. In this paper
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Green Neighbourhood Identity: How Residents Use Urban Nature Against Territorial Stigmatization in Finnish Housing Estates Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Antti Wallin
ABSTRACT The 1960s housing estates are widely defamed in public discourse, including two neighbourhoods of focus in this research in the fast-growing “sustainable city” of Tampere, Finland. Based on a qualitative case study, this paper analyses how residents have used urban nature to counter territorial stigmatization. It views the relationship between territorial stigmatization and neighbourhood identity
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Green Neighbourhood Identity: How Residents Use Urban Nature Against Territorial Stigmatization in Finnish Housing Estates Housing, Theory and Society (IF 2.722) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Antti Wallin
ABSTRACT The 1960s housing estates are widely defamed in public discourse, including two neighbourhoods of focus in this research in the fast-growing “sustainable city” of Tampere, Finland. Based on a qualitative case study, this paper analyses how residents have used urban nature to counter territorial stigmatization. It views the relationship between territorial stigmatization and neighbourhood identity