Housing Estates in Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges

Introduction: The Role of Large Housing Estates in Past, Present and Future Change in European Cities.- PART 1: Four Thematic Lenses for Viewing the Trajectories of Large Housing Estates.- PART 2: Case Studies of Housing Estates in European Metropolitan Area.- Western Europe (Changing Context, Policies and Estates in the UK: The Birmingham Example / The Socio-economic Evolution of Large Housing Estates in Brussels / Large Housing Estates in a Divided City: Berling's Pallenbauten and Wohnblöcke / Large Housing Estates in the Paris Region: The Local Challenge of Internal Social Mixing in Orly).- Eastern Europe (Persistence or Change: Social and Physical Challenges of Housing Estates in Budapest / Housing Estates in Prague: Long-term Development and Current Situation / Mass Housing Inherited from State Socialism in Tartu, Estonia / Ursynów: Emergence and Evolution of Warsaw's Largest Dormitory Suburb).- Northern Europe (Equity or Net Gains? Tenure Structure, Perceived Social Disorder and Policy Challenges in the Post-WWII Housing Estates of Helsinki region / Large Housing Estates in Stockholm: Do Initial Conditions Matter?).- Southern Europe (Social and Ethnic Transformations of Large Social Housing Estates in Milan: From Modernity to Marginalisation / Large housing Estates in Athens: An Uncommon Form of Social Housing Within a Residual Welfare State.- Conclusion (Assessing the Evidence: Past and Present Trajectories of Europe's Large Housing Estates, and a Comment on the Future).- Index.