Affordable Housing: Inclusive Cities

In a time when an estimated 1.2 billion people across the world lack access to secure housing, how are cities working to empower and promote the inclusion of all, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, disability and economic status? How is affordable housing bridging economic gaps across different social, political and cultural geographies, particularly for the 900 million individuals who live in slums? This volume explores the interface of social justice and city making through comparative discussions from Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe, as well as North, Central and South America. The thirty-six essays in this collection include conversations with influential administrators and civic leaders such as Somsook Boonyabancha and Jaime Lerner, with commentaries on transformative initiatives such as "Child Friendly Cities," and "Women for the World," and case studies of exemplary projects by globally known architects and planners such as Alejandro Aravena and MVRDV. The multifaceted narrative of this volume is a call for expanding the narrow focus on urban equitability towards a more integral outlook on the myriad ways through which affordable housing and inclusive cites are being generated globally.

Author: Vinayak Bharne
Publisher: Oro Editions
Published: 07/01/2019
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.70h x 8.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781941806197

About the Author
Khandekar, Shyam: - Shyam Khandekar is an urban designer, city planner and architect with four decades of design experience in Europe and India. He was the founder and director of the award-winning Dutch design practice Khandekar Urban Design and Landscape, that continued under the name BDP.Khandekar. From 2008-2012 he served as Company Director of the major international design practice BDP, headquartered in London. He is Co-Founder and Director of the Knowledge Platform, My Liveable City, and Editorial Director of its urbanism magazine.Bharne, Vinayak: - Vinayak Bharne is an urban designer and city planner based in Los Angeles, USA. He is Principal and Director of Design of the award-winning practice Moule & Polyzoides, a faculty of urbanism at the University of Southern California, and Executive Editor of the India-Netherlands-based urbanism journal, My Liveable City. His books include The Emerging Asian City, and the forthcoming Routledge Companion on Global Heritage Conservation.