Tag: social housing

Schubart Park: A South African Experiment in State-Sponsored Social Housing Concepts and the Urban Renewal of Pretoria

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 3-4

Schubart Park (1965 – 1976) was a South African state-sponsored mass housing project, initiated by the Nationalist government (1948 – 1994) and the city council of Pretoria, in the zeitgeist of post-war housing solutions. This scheme was partly influenced by British legislative practices and inspired by various international examples of welfare-state responses to urban housing […]

On Cooperative Housing in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1959 – 1970

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 3-4

Although Czechoslovakia was not excessively damaged by the previous conflict, it faced the same problem as the worse affected European countries – the lack of suitable housing. This trend was both increasing and highly evident throughout the 1950s. A certain breakthrough occured at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, when cooperative housing construction was […]

The Condominium Idea in the First Half of the 20th Century in Budapest

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 3-4

In the first half of the 20th century, the idea of the family house and the suburb emerged in reduced form through the construction of condominiums in Budapest. While the suburb idea required intervention via urban development, and thus the involvement of public authorities, condominium construction was viable even the scale of a single plot. […]

Employee Colonies: Nomenclature, Typology and (Dis)continuity

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 3-4

The topic of this study is employee housing. The ambition of the study is to contribute to the nomenclature and typology of employee housing of the past as a topical issue of the present. Employee housing of the classical and socialist industrialisation era is most often associated with the phenomenon of workers’ colonies and settlements […]

On Large-Scale Housing in Denmark

Issue: 2012, Volume 46, No. 3 - 4

Living and construction, a historical background for large-scale housing in Denmark Between the wars, Copenhagen was strongly affected by the urbanisation that had begun with the industrialisation of the city in the middle of the 18th century. The city consisted of overcrowded areas with a mixture of buildings for accommodation and for businesses, both in […]