Renewing Europe's Housing

Richard Turkington is Executive Director of Housing Vision; Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Comparative Housing Research, De Montfort University, Leicester; and a member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research. Christopher Watson is a former Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies and a member of the Housing and Communities Group, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham.

Introduction ~ Christopher Watson and Richard Turkington;
From physical improvement to holistic renewal: the Danish experience ~ Hedvig Vestergaard;
Housing renewal in England ~ Christopher Watson and Richard Turkington;
Making new from old in France: urban change through housing renewal in two Parisian districts ~ Claire Lévy-Vroelant and Yankel Fijalkow;
Housing and urban renewal in the Netherlands ~ Frank Wassenberg;
Estonia: learning through ‘societal experiment’ ~ Katrin Paadam and Liis Ojamäe;
Housing and urban renewal: the case of Germany ~ Jürgen Friedrichs, Rolf Müller and Wendelin Strubelt;
Housing renewal in Hungary: from socialist non-renovation through individual market actions to area-based public intervention ~ Iván Tosics;
From isolated programmes to an integrated approach: the case of La Barceloneta, Spain ~ Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Montse Simó-Solsona;
From squatter upgrading to large scale renewal programmes: housing renewal in Turkey ~ Zeynep Gunay, T Kerem Koramaz and A Sule Ozuekren;
Changing approaches to policy making in housing renewal ~ Tim Brown and Richard Turkington;
Conclusions ~ Richard Turkington and Christopher Watson.