Social housing. Housing the social. Art, property and spatial justice. Andrea Phillips.

Berlin : Sternberg Press 2013.

543 pages.

Actors, agents and attendents 2

This book examines ongoing transformations in social housing and asks how these transformations are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists. Housing provides essential shelter, but also gives form to the social. It represents and embodies the materiality of civic politics and thus demonstrates the uneven nature of spatial justice at local and global scale. For many years artists have contributed to the design and organization of structures of living together, often with ambivalent effect. Whilst many have imagined - and attempted to implement - radical new forms of social housing, as alternatives to both privatization and state provision, they have also ushered in waves of gentrification, thus contributing significantly to a story of capitalization now dominant within urban infrastructures.

9783943365177 (paperback)
3943365174 (paperback)

Housing Political aspects.
Housing policy Citizen participation.
Logement Politique gouvernementale Participation des citoyens.

Actors, agents and attendents ; 2.

Location: Library main 284248
Call No.: BIB 222954
Status: Available