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Wybrane Londyńskie strategie przekształceń urbanistycznych na potrzeby mieszkalnictwa dostępnego

Publication date: 11.2020

Housing Environment, 2020, 32/2020, pp. 58 - 68

https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700SM.20.027.12891

Authors

Paweł Pedrycz
Faculty of Architecture Warsaw University of Technology
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9892-1964 Orcid
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Selected London urban transformation strategies for affordable housing

Abstract

The issue of affordable housing is becoming an important element of social policy in Europe and Poland and the fundamental task of architecture and urban planning. One of the key issues, which often blocks this process, is the acquisition of land for development. The simplest solution, currently employed in Poland, is the construction of housing estates in undeveloped peripheral areas, so-called greenfields. This solution, however, is detrimental to urban planning and, in the long term, also harmful to society. Given the above, alternative locations for affordable housing development should be sought. Many interesting strategies are to be found in the context of London, where the availability of land is extremely limited. This paper presents two such land conversion strategies for housing purposes, supported by individual case studies. These concern: (a) areas of technical infrastructure, (b) extensive housing estates from the 1960s and 1970s. Each example has been described according to a similar outline, which consists of: (a) the context of the project, (b) its effect, (c) outlook, (d) potential and limitations in the Polish context. This approach allows for an objective assessment of the suitability of individual strategies for the needs of affordable housing in Poland. As a result, transformations of existing Modernist housing estates can be considered the more promising in terms of quantity, while investing in areas of technical infrastructure seems to be the more realistic scenario.

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Information: Housing Environment, 2020, 32/2020, pp. 58 - 68

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English:

Selected London urban transformation strategies for affordable housing

Polish:

Wybrane Londyńskie strategie przekształceń urbanistycznych na potrzeby mieszkalnictwa dostępnego

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9892-1964

Paweł Pedrycz
Faculty of Architecture Warsaw University of Technology
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9892-1964 Orcid
All publications →

Faculty of Architecture Warsaw University of Technology

Published at: 11.2020

Article status: Open

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Polish, English