Expanding Danish welfare landscapes

Braae, Ellen; Steiner, Henriette

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“…In this light, it is problematic that official heritage bodies have generally focused narrowly on the architectural canon when addressing postwar housing. With the aim of developing the concept of publicness theoretically and methodologically, we have applied it to the five European social housing estates that provide the empirical basis of our individual case studies: Farum Midtpunkt in Denmark, Telli and Tscharnergut in Switzerland, Fjell in Norway, and Lotto O in Italy [1]. All originate in the period between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, when a significant part of the European social housing estates were built.…”

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“…European postwar large-scale housing estates materialise various ideas about urbanity, communality, and community. 1 They are concrete spaces for encounters and shared uses among multiple people; that is, they are forms of public space. The concept of public space grows out of classical sociology's interest in urban public spaces as the main loci of modern experience, such as boulevards, urban squares, and metropolitan entertainment or commercial districts.…”

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Examining the publicness of spaces on European social housing estates: a position paper

Braae,

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The concept of ‘publicness’ addresses the intersection between people and their physical surroundings, and the ways in which they affect each other in an ongoing process. This point of relational exchange is the core concept behind ‘Public Space in European Social Housing’ (PuSH), a three-year HERA-funded project conducted by a transnational, multidisciplinary team of researchers. Large-scale modernist postwar housing estates, often used for social, cooperative, or mass rental housing, tend to be problematised as places of segregation and disintegration in European cities. Yet they are potentially also primary sites for integration between people of different cultural origins and social backgrounds. By investigating publicness in relation to social housing, including cooperative housing and mass rental housing estates, PuSH aims to better understand how cultural encounters happen, and ultimately to reflect on how integration can be better sustained. In this paper, we take a relational conception of publicness as our point of departure to explore the differentiations and intersections between sites and modes of public life in relation to our approach and the social housing estates we investigate. Moreover, we present our conceptual contribution to the concept of publicness, both theoretically and methodologically using multidisciplinary theories and methodologies, and four analytical categories: heritage, practices/policies, democracy, informality, and moreover exhibitions are used as a research tool. This paper is a collaborative output whereby different researchers on the project present their theoretical developments and positions, identify the analytical categories and theoretical vocabularies on which they daw, and reflect on potential ways in which these concepts can be operationalised, and on the synergies that may develop between them. Taken together, our approach offers significant interpretations of publicness in relation to questions of public space, and tackles some of the most pronounced tensions in discussions of public space.

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Examining the publicness of spaces on European social housing estates: a position paper

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Riesto

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Improved human greenspace exposure equality during 21st century urbanization

Wu,

Chen,

Webster

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Nat Commun

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Greenspace plays a crucial role in urban ecosystems and has been recognized as a key factor in promoting sustainable and healthy city development. Recent studies have revealed a growing concern about urban greenspace exposure inequality; however, the extent to which urbanization affects human exposure to greenspace and associated inequalities over time remains unclear. Here, we incorporate a Landsat-based 30-meter time-series greenspace mapping and a population-weighted exposure framework to quantify the changes in human exposure to greenspace and associated equality (rather than equity) for 1028 global cities from 2000 to 2018. Results show a substantial increase in physical greenspace coverage and an improvement in human exposure to urban greenspace, leading to a reduction in greenspace exposure inequality over the past two decades. Nevertheless, we observe a contrast in the rate of reduction in greenspace exposure inequality between cities in the Global South and North, with a faster rate of reduction in the Global South, nearly four times that of the Global North. These findings provide valuable insights into the impact of urbanization on urban nature and environmental inequality change and can help inform future city greening efforts.

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Constructing Copenhagen in a Time of Economic Downturn: Reevaluating 1990s Postmodernist Urban Development before the City Became “Livable”

Steiner

2022

Architecture and Culture

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Expanding Danish welfare landscapes

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Examining the publicness of spaces on European social housing estates: a position paper

Examining the publicness of spaces on European social housing estates: a position paper

Improved human greenspace exposure equality during 21st century urbanization

Constructing Copenhagen in a Time of Economic Downturn: Reevaluating 1990s Postmodernist Urban Development before the City Became “Livable”

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