The New Tenement: Residences in the Inner City Since 1970

Synopsis

This book examines "new tenements"—dense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since the 1970s and came with a new positive view on urban living. Focusing principally on Berlin, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Rotterdam, and Vienna, it relates architectural design to an evolving intellectual framework that mixed anti-modernist criticism with nostalgic images and strategic goals, and absorbed ideas about the city as a generator of creativity, locale of democratic debate, and object of personal identification.This book analyses new tenements in the context of the post-functionalist city and its mixed-use neighbourhoods, redeveloped industrial sites and regenerated waterfronts. It demonstrates that these buildings are both generators and outcome of an urban environment characterised by information exchange rather than industrial production, individual expression rather than mass culture, visible history rather than comprehensive renewal, and conspicuous difference rather than egalitarianism. It also shows that new tenements evolved under a welfare state that all over Europe has come under pressure, but still to a certain degree balances and controls heterogeneity and economic disparities.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

310 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781315402451

Related ISBNs:

9781315402468, 9781138224452, 9781138224452, 9781138224469, 9781138224469, 9781315402468, 9781138224452, 9781138224452, 9781138224469, 9781138224469, 9781138224452, 9781138224469, 9781315402468

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/19/19

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Education

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.