Modelling Social Housing

Mikkel Høghøj is a cultural historian specialized in modern and contemporary Nordic urban, planning, and welfare history. His research deals widely with the urban and environmental history of the Danish welfare society. He is a researcher and curator in the Danish Museum of Science and Technology and holds a PhD in urban history from Aarhus University.Mette My Madsen is a postdoctoral researcher and PI at the Research Centre for Social Urban Modelling at the National Museum of Denmark specialized in the cross‑field between urban planning and social coherence in the region of Denmark/North. Her research includes formal and informal social organization, welfare‑governing, insurgent infrastructure and circular economy. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen.Anne Corlin is Assistant Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture, where she teaches Urban design in the master's programme Desirable Densities. Her research revolves around socially sustainable urban design and how to design neighbourhoods for community building, focusing on both the design processes and the spatial and physical design.Morten Nielsen is a social anthropologist working on socially sustainable urban development. Since November 2018, he has been based at the National Museum of Denmark as Research Professor and Head of the Research Center for Social Urban Modelling (SUMO).

• List of figuresList of contributors1. Introduction: Exploring the Modelling Capacities of Social HousingMikkel Høghøj, Mette My Madsen, Anne Corlin and Morten NielsenPart I: Inventing and implementing new models of housing2. A Danish Kasbah? The Mediterranean-Islamic Homes and Town Centres as Models of Danish Dense-Low Housing (1950s-1980s)Dorian Bianco3. Everything in Its Right Place: Henry Roberts’ Model Houses and the Fabrication of the Model FamilyJoshua Tan4. Planning, Play, and Participation: The Extra-Parliamentary Residents’ Playground at Høje Gladsaxe (1969) as a Model for Sociospatial Transformation and Engaging Urban CitizenshipMartin SøbergPart II: Scales and complexity of planning and design5. Model Assemblages and the Multiple Potentials of Stockholm's 1952 General PlanSued Ferreira da Silva and Johan Pries6. An Architecture of Paperwork: The London County Council’s Collaborative BureaucracyJesse Honsa7. Ecocritical Domo-graphyAntonio Bernacchi and Alicia LazzaroniPart III: Contemporary projects of intervention and transformation8. Artistic Interventions in Large-scale Urban Transformation ProjectsLine Marie Bruun Jespersen and Rune Chr. Bach9. The Role of Private Investors and Developers in the Social Transformation of Non-Profit Housing EstatesAnne Clementsen10. Reconfiguring Orders of Worth: A Comparative Analysis of Densification Processes on Social Housing Estates in Denmark and JapanNicola C. ThomasPart IV: Everyday appropriations and resident practices11. Mimicking Municipal Models: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Resident-Driven Development in Forced Regeneration of Danish Non-Profit HousingAdam Veng12. Whose Place is it? Remodelling and Reappropriating Danish Social HousingMarie Stender13. Social Housing Beyond the City: Migration and Remote Productions of Welfare on the Danish Island of LollandTrine Brinkmann14. Epilogue: Models that Make us ActAlbena YanevaIndex