Retrofitting the city residential flexibility, resilience and the built environment.
Stefan Bouzarovski
- xiii, 269 pages ill (black and white), maps 24 cm.
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Bibliography
Contents: List of Illustrations viii -- Acknowledgments xii -- Part 1: Rethinking urban transformations -- 1. Introduction 1 -- 2. Intersections of the Economic, Political and Material : Diverse Geographies of Flexibility 27 -- 3. Swimming through a Murky Sea : A Conceptual Archaeology of Resilence and Adaptive Capacity 46 -- 4. Theorizing Flexibility and Resilience in the Built Environment of the Home 70 -- Part 2 : Articulating urban transformations -- 5. Sites, Histories, Politics : Four Cities and their Tales 101 -- 6. Alliances : An Historical Perspective on the Interaction between People and Buildings 144 -- 7. Mobilities : Articulating Residential Flexibility in the Home and Beyond 176 -- 8. Networks : Unravelling the Built Environment 197 -- 9. Conclusion 219 -- Bibliography 231 -- Index 256 -- List of Illustrations : Figures : 2.1 Different domains (planes) of flexibility affecting households 44 -- 3.1 A three dimensional representation of the changing amounts of connectedness, resilience and potential in different stages of the complex adaptive cycle 55 -- 3.2 Theoretical scope of the concepts of resilience, flexibility and adaptive capacity relevant to the relationship between households and the built environment of the home 68 -- 4.1 The underlying dynamics of in situ adjustments vs the classic residential mobility model : multiple housing episodes and events are experienced in the same dwelling 77 -- 4.2 An outline of the different facets of household resilience (understood in social ecological terms) within the context of a number of crucial planes of flexibility 96 -- 5.1 Locations of the case study cities and countries 102 -- 5.2 Salient features of Gdansk, including the locations of the study areas (map by the author) 116 -- 5.3 Prefabricated panel blocks in Zaspa. They are surrounded by green spaces that are well maintained. Most of the buildings have been subject to upgrading investment (photo by the author) -- 5.4 One of the main streets in Wrzeszcz Dolny. Parts of the area have been subject to revitalization, although this is not always the case (photo by the author) 119 -- 5.5 Salient features of Ljubljana, including the locations of the study areas (map by the author) 124 -- 5.6 A large part of Siska's pre-war urban structure still survives today, albeit many houses have undergone significant alterations, and the district now contains a much more eclectic mix of housing, including numerous apartment blocks along the main streets (photo by the author) 126 -- 5.7 Siska's continued residential attractiveness is demonstrated by the extensive construction of new apartment buildings at its northern outskirts, either as stand-alone complexes or as infill among older blocks (photo by the author) 127 -- 5.8 Salient features of Budapest, including the locations of the study areas (map by the author) 130 -- 5.9 The district of Lipótváros extends across the northern part of the historical urban core of Budapest. It contains a mixture of commercial buildings and residential space in addition to a range of services and public areas. Much of the area has seen re development and improvement, though not at the scale seen in some other ECE urban capitals such as Prague or Ljubljana (photo by the author) 132 -- 5.10 The housing estate of Káposztásmegyer consists entirely of prefabricated buildings, which largely remain in the same state in which they were built (photo by Vastalicska) 134 -- 5.11 Salient features of Skopje, including the locations of the study areas (map by the author) 140 -- 5.12 Skopje's older urban quarters are undergoing rapid processes of housing infill and densification, with little planning control and oversight (photo by the author) 141 -- 5.13 Many of the five storey prefabricated panel apartment buildings in the district of Karposh IV have been extended via vertical additions (photo by the author) 142 -- 6.1 The Große Allee as it appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century Source: http://www.chem.univ.gda.pl/ ~ tomek/Gdanskprzewodnik.htm 147 -- 6.2 Wreszcz's central square as it appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century. Source: http://www.chem.univ.gda.pl/ 148 -- 6.3 A German map of the northern districts of Gdansk from 1930, indicating the morphology of the city; the empty area to the north of Wreszez (chen Langfuhr') is now occupied by the Zaspa housing estates. Source: http://www.chem.univ.gda.pl/ ~ tomek/ Gdanskprzewodnik.htm 148 -- 6.4 The river port along the Vistula river canal in Nowy Port at the beginning of the twentieth century; the landmark Nowy Port lighthouse (dating from 1893) and some of the old fishermen's houses are visible in the background. Source: http:// www.chem.univ.gda.pl/ ~ tomek/Gdanskprzewodnik.htm 149 -- 6.5 Lower Siska in 1913. Source: www.stara-siska.si 150 -- 6.6 The centre of Siska after World War I. Source: www.stara-siska.si 150 -- 6.7 Stylized sketch of the home of Gabriela. (Left) original room plan; (right) changes implemented in response to different demographic events: 1 - illegal conversion of part of the corridor to a bathroom once the flat was occupied; 2 - construction of a partition wall in the living room upon the birth of a second child; the wall was removed after the children moved out (sketch by the author) 156 -- 6.8 Nowy Port's prefabricated panel housing buildings can be seen in the background, having been obscured by older built tissues which constitute the urban heart of the district (photo by the author) 158 -- 6.9 Much of Karposh IV is comprised of five-storey prefabricated apartment buildings constructed during the 1970s, now almost completely covered by external extensions and additions 160 -- 6.10 The heavy fuel oil-burning plant that supplies Karposh IV with district energy 164 -- 6.11 A housing block in Gdansk's district of Nowy Port, just north of Zaspa, known for being one of Europe's longest. Numerous such structures can be found in the area, albeit they are not as long in Zaspa 165 -- 6.12 The disproportionately high number of pensioners' clubs and associations attests to the extensive presence of their age group in Siska 172 -- 7.1 Household categories according to the relationship between classic residential mobility and in place adjustment 178 -- 8.1 Spatial adaptability issues in Gizela’s apartment: 1 narrow door does not allow for moving big furniture pieces in ; 2 removal of partition wall ; 3 remainder of partition wall cannot be removed because it contains chimneys ; 4 addition of curved wall to separate kitchen and bathroom 200 -- 8.2 Ground floor conversion of apartments into small businesses is visible throughout the case study areas (photo by the author) 216 -- 8.3 Varying levels of housing upgrading and reconstruction are both embedded and create micro scale patterns of inequality that may be replicated across wider spaces (photo by the author) 217 -- 9.1 An integrated perspective on in situ housing transformations and resilience via the lens of resilience thinking 226 -- Boxes: 2.1 The second demographic 32 -- 2.2 Anthony Gidden’s Modernity and Self Identity 33 -- 3.1 Critiques of social ecological resilience 66 -- 4.1 Retrofitting the city 84 -- 4.2 Performances of architecture 88 -- 4.3 Power, space and society 91 -- 6.1 Older women in post communist cities 91 -- 7.1 The second demographic transition in ECE 181 -- 8.1 Urban decision markers and older people in inner cities 204 --