1st Edition

Cities and Affordable Housing Planning, Design and Policy Nexus

Edited By Sasha Tsenkova Copyright 2022
318 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 99 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people- and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good practices of city-led strategies for affordable housing provision, as well as individual projects capitalising on partnerships to build mixed-income... Read more

1. Affordable Housing and the Future Cities
Sasha Tsenkova

Part I Cities and Affordable Housing

2. Montréal: Building an Inclusive City
Suzanne LaFerrière

3. Affordable Housing and Diversity in Vancouver
Abigail Bond

4. Affordable Housing Transition in Calgary
Sarah Woodgate, Teresa Goldstein, and Claire Noble

5. Affordable Housing Challenges: The Experience of the City of Edmonton
Jalene Anderson-Baron and Christel Kjenner

6. Responses to Toronto’s Affordable Housing Challenge: Mobilizing for Action
Sean Gadon

Part II Mixed-Income Affordable Housing and Community Building

7. Mix and Match: A Framework for Understanding Mixed-Income Outcomes
Shomon Shamsuddin

8. Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Joni Hirsch, Mark L. Joseph, and Amy T. Khare

9. Paris Habitat’s Experience of Urban Regeneration to Create Affordable Housing
Stéphane Dauphin and Hélène Schwoerer

10. Toronto: Revitalization in Regent Park 12 Years Later
Vincent Tong

Part III Affordable Housing Partnerships in Practice

11. Mixed-Income Housing in New York City: Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons of an Enduring Mayoral Commitment
Alex F. Schwartz and Sasha Tsenkova

12. Partnerships for Affordable Housing in English Cities
Kath Scanlon

13. Resilience of Social Housing Systems in Vienna, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen
Sasha Tsenkova

Part IV Design Innovation in Affordable Housing

14. Thinking "Outside the Box" about Affordable Homes and Communities
Avi Friedman

15. Affordable Housing & Design Innovation: A View from Paris
Christelle Avenier and Sasha Tsenkova

16. Affordable Housing Design + A New Urban Era in European Cities
Paul Karakusevic

17. Amsterdam: More than a Social Housing Project
Jeroen Atteveld and Bas Liesker

Part V Perspectives on Policy Design for Affordable Housing

18. Pathways of Dutch and German Social Renting
Marietta Haffner

19. Social Sustainability in Social and Affordable Housing
Meryn Severson and Esther de Vos

20.Private Rental Housing in Canada’s Metropolitan Areas: Trends and Prospects
J. David Hulchanski

Biography

Sasha Tsenkova is Professor of Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, University of Calgary, Canada. She has published extensively on housing and urban issues and has worked for international organisations on projects in Europe, North America and Central Asia.