- Author
- Conseil International du Batiment
- Coporate
- Conseil International du Batiment, Sweden
- Report
- CIB Publication 243
- Book or Conf
- Resurgence and Transcendence: Assessing Long Term Social Consequences of the Implementation of Housing Policies and Renewal Policies in Europe. Proceedings. CIB W69 16th Meeting on Housing Sociology. June 4-8, 1998, Goteborg, Sweden, 221 p., 1998
- Keywords
- housing | architecture | building design | regulations | architects | planning
- Abstract
- West European as well as Central and East European Countries (CEEC) are witnessing a resurgence of former societal structures at the same time as they are confronted with the urge for a radical transcendence into a new amodern reality - whether it is a question of the reformulation of the welfare state based on new economic conditions or the sudden collapse of an economically obsolete totalitarian system. Under such circumstances former conventions and traditions are reintegrated in an inevitable process of invention and reinvention. Taking the example of Sweden, the housing situation since the end of the 1980's up until the present has gone through an extremely turbulent development, a considerable reformulation and economic reconstruction, which is still not fully implemented. The starting point for the seminar was to present and examine the local context and experiences of the municipality of Gijteborg within a time span of about thirty years, based on three projects: a project concerning the qualitative renovation of a traditional working class area, Lindholmen; one of Norra Alvstranden's recent urban re-inventions, a former docklands and waterfront production zone which will be developed to accommodate new city functions, i.e. for housing, education and recreation; and the third example was the refurbishing of a large suburban housing estate, Bergsjon, with ambitions of sustainability. These examples provide researchers participating in the seminar, and in similar situations, projects with which to compare the present situation in their own countries. What in one situation and location now seems totally unrealistic can have already been proven highly realistic in another, given the perspective of a longer time span. The seminar particularly focused on issues of modes of tenure and management within this context and also initiated exchanges around planning issues, architectural sociology and project design analysis. Within this broad perspective, contributors from nine countries at the CIB Housing Sociology Re-union each presented papers and debated current housing issues as they are manifested in projects, policies and outcomes in their respective countries. In these revised and edited papers, where possible, historical themes are developed, thereby allowing trans-national differences and similarities to become clearer. New solutions and methods might thus be offered to the reader of these seminar proceedings. For example, social implications and consequences might be clearly identified and discerned within a longer time span.