Social Housing and Urban Renewal

Paul Watt is Reader in Urban Studies at the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Recent publications include, Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs, co-edited with Peer Smets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy?, co-edited with Phil Cohen(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Peer Smets is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Recent publications include, Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South, co-edited with Jan Bredenoord and Paul Van Lindert (Earthscan/Routledge, 2014)

• 1. Introduction: Social Housing and Urban Renewal; Paul Watt 2. Holding on to HOPE: Assessing Redevelopment of Boston’s Orchard Park Public Housing Project; Shomon Shamsuddin and Lawrence J. Vale 3. “The Blue Bit, that was my Bedroom”: Rubble, Displacement and Regeneration in Inner-City London; Luna Glucksberg4. Gentrification as Policy Goal or Unintended Outcome? Contested Meanings of Urban Renewal and Social Housing Reform in an Australian City; Lynda Cheshire 5. Are Social Mix and Participation Compatible? Conflicts and Claims in Urban Renewal in France and England; Agnès Deboulet and Simone Abram 6. Promoting Social Mix through Tenure Mix: Social Housing and Mega-Event Regeneration in Turin; Manuela Olanero and Irene Ponzo 7. Tenure Mix against the Background of Social Polarization: Social Mixing of Moroccan-Dutch and Native-Born Dutch in Amsterdam East; Peer Smets 8. Phased Out, Demolished and Privatized: Social Housing in an East German ‘Shrinking City’; Matthias Bernt 9. Social Housing and Urban Renewal in Tokyo: From Post-War Reconstruction to the 2020 Olympic Games; Chikako Mori 10. Territorial Stigmatization in Socially-Mixed Neighborhoods in Chicago and Santiago: A Comparison of Global-North and Global-South Urban Renewal Problems; Javier Ruiz-Tagle 11. Caught Between the Market and Transformation: Urban Regeneration and the Provision of Low-Income Housing in Inner-City Johannesburg; Aidan Mosselson 12. Social Housing, Urban Renewal, and Shifting Meanings of ‘Welfare State’ in Turkey: A Study of the Karapınar Renewal Project, Eskişehir; Cansu Civelek13. The Inbetweeners: Living with Abandonment, Gentrification and Endless Urban ‘Renewal’ in Salford, UK; Andrew Wallace 14. Conclusion; Peer Smets and Paul Watt

The 12 essays in this volume consider the impact of urban renewal on social housing in European, American, and Australian cities, as well as in Japan, Chile, and South Africa. Anthropologists, sociologists, urban studies specialists, and other researchers from these countries concentrate on the social processes and impacts of contemporary social housing renewal, particularly the themes of neighborhood and community, poverty and social exclusion, social mixing, mixed-tenure developments, neighborhood effects, territorial stigmatization, demolition, displacement, urban governance, state-led gentrification, and neoliberal urbanism. They examine how and why renewal occurs in different urban spatial contexts and how residents view and experience urban renewal, as well as the views of urban renewal officials and politicians. The book is based on a conference session, “Public/Social Rental Housing and Urban Renewal: New Inequalities and Insecurities?”, at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, held in July 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. Seven chapters are based on papers from the session.