Making Room for People Choice, Voice and Liveability in Residential Areas

• Main Author: Qu, Lei (auth)
• Other Authors: Hasselaar, Evert (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Techne Press 2011
• Subjects: Community & outreach services; Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning; neighbourhood involvement; buurt betrokkenheid; samenwerking; participatory planning; co-housing; deelnemingsplanning; stedelijke herleving; urban regeneration; community empowerment; Cohousing; Netherlands; Public housing; Rotterdam
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

Making Room for People elaborates on preferences in housing. It explores how users, occupants, and citizens can express their needs, searching for the enhancement of individual choice and control over their residential environment, and the predicted positive spin-off's for urban collectives. The central question is: What are the conditions under which an increase of people's choice and voice over the places they inhabit contribute to more liveable urban areas? The options to make choices and to have a say in urban design and housing matters are used as a conceptual framework. 'Choice' and 'voice' are the main concepts that structure the empirical material.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (196 p.)

ISBN

OAPEN_397131

Access

Open Access