1st Edition
Post-War Public Housing and Well-Being Modernity, Economic Recovery, and Social Change
Introduction
Izumi Kuroishi
Section I: Well-Being and Social Ethos
1. 'How Do People Want to Live?’: Catherine Bauer and Social Questions in Modern American Housing
Barbara Penner
2. Ideas of Health and Well-Being as Understood and Applied in the Design and Planning of Post-War British Public Housing
John Boughton
3. The Idea of Life (Seikatsu) and Well-Being in Japanese Pre- and Post-War Housing
Izumi Kuroishi
Section II: Well-Being, Urban Space and Accessibility
4. Designing for Well-Being in Large Housing Estates in East and West Berlin: Märkisches Viertel and Marzahn
Katharina Borsi
5. The Impact of Housing Access Policies on Well-being in Spain
Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway
6. Nishiyama Uzo: Writing for Housing and Planning for Well-Being in Post-War Japan
Carola Hein
Section III: Well-Being, Ideological and Personal Affluence
7. The Impact of Well-Being on Housing Policies and the Consumption of Durable Goods in Post-war West Germany
Nodoka Nagayama
8. Post-War Housing and the Concept of Well-being: A Comparison of the US and China
Benjamin Gianni
9. Housing Security and Policy over the Long Run, Japan 1600–2000
Mitsuo Kinoshita
Section IV: Well-Being in the Twenty-First Century
10. Well-Rounded Well-Being: The Low-Carbon Bioclimatic Architecture of the Balearic Housing Institute
Rafael Gómez-Moriana
11. Living Together with Dementia: Domestic Rearrangements
Lilian Chee and Lim Kun Yi James
Biography
Izumi Kuroishi is a Professor at Fukushima Gakuin University and is the chair of Japan Lifeology Academy.
