The Business of Densification
Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe societal problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident g...
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| description | Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe societal problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in old housing stocks planned to be densified, renovated, or upgraded with higher rents, are forced to leave the urban core centers because they can no longer afford to live in central locations, or because they experience unstable or insecure housing conditions. A scenario that is highly unsustainable. So far, studies on densification have mainly considered the process as technological, architectural, or design-based problem (e.g., Kyttä et al., 2013; Broitman & Koomen, 2015; Bibby et al., 2018). However, systematic knowledge on how to implement densification objectives sustainably – regarding economic, environmental, and social aspects – is still lacking. This book tackles this gap by analyzing densification from a governance perspective. Its point of departure is that densification per se does not necessarily lead to sustainable outcomes in terms of social inclusion, cohesion, or community stability. Rather, it politicizes densification by neglecting how the process is planned, implemented, and governed by the actors involved. The book applies an actors-centered neoinstitutionalist political ecology approach to reveal the specific objectives and strategies of actors involved, as well as the socio-political structures (i.e. rules. laws, and policies) that govern densification. Four Swiss in-depth empirical qualitative case studies (Zürich, Basel, Köniz, and Kloten) illustrate the political and legal conditions for success or failure for (un)sustainable implementations of densification. Ultimately, this book advises stakeholders, governments, urban practitioners, and academics on more effective, community-oriented, collective, and decommodified forms of governance to respond to the needs of the public at large rather than simply catering to private individuals and firms. Such governance initiatives entail active municipal land policy approaches outside a purely market-based investment logic that not only limit, but also work with property rights. This is an open access book. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1330242025-03-21T18:54:17Z The Business of Densification Debrunner, Gabriela Densification Gentrification Social exclusion Decommodification Governance Affordable housing Active land policy sustainable housing urban densification housing commodification bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPP Public administration bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe societal problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in old housing stocks planned to be densified, renovated, or upgraded with higher rents, are forced to leave the urban core centers because they can no longer afford to live in central locations, or because they experience unstable or insecure housing conditions. A scenario that is highly unsustainable. So far, studies on densification have mainly considered the process as technological, architectural, or design-based problem (e.g., Kyttä et al., 2013; Broitman & Koomen, 2015; Bibby et al., 2018). However, systematic knowledge on how to implement densification objectives sustainably – regarding economic, environmental, and social aspects – is still lacking. This book tackles this gap by analyzing densification from a governance perspective. Its point of departure is that densification per se does not necessarily lead to sustainable outcomes in terms of social inclusion, cohesion, or community stability. Rather, it politicizes densification by neglecting how the process is planned, implemented, and governed by the actors involved. The book applies an actors-centered neoinstitutionalist political ecology approach to reveal the specific objectives and strategies of actors involved, as well as the socio-political structures (i.e. rules. laws, and policies) that govern densification. Four Swiss in-depth empirical qualitative case studies (Zürich, Basel, Köniz, and Kloten) illustrate the political and legal conditions for success or failure for (un)sustainable implementations of densification. Ultimately, this book advises stakeholders, governments, urban practitioners, and academics on more effective, community-oriented, collective, and decommodified forms of governance to respond to the needs of the public at large rather than simply catering to private individuals and firms. Such governance initiatives entail active municipal land policy approaches outside a purely market-based investment logic that not only limit, but also work with property rights. This is an open access book. 2024-01-16T04:18:58Z 2024-01-16T04:18:58Z 2024-01-15T16:44:45Z 2024 book ONIX_20240115_9783031490149_2 OCN: 1417317246 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86861 9783031490149 9783031490132 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133024 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86861/1/978-3-031-49014-9.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86861/1/978-3-031-49014-9.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-49014-9 10.1007/978-3-031-49014-9 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783031490149 9783031490132 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Palgrave Macmillan 282 Cham [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | Densification Gentrification Social exclusion Decommodification Governance Affordable housing Active land policy sustainable housing urban densification housing commodification bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPP Public administration bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability Debrunner, Gabriela The Business of Densification |
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| topic | Densification Gentrification Social exclusion Decommodification Governance Affordable housing Active land policy sustainable housing urban densification housing commodification bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPP Public administration bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability |
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