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Many households aged 55 and older with a desire to move encounter a lack of suitable housing on the Dutch housing market. Various households that have a desire to move, cannot find a dwelling that meets their desires in their desired location. This hinders their ability to realize their housing preferences and forms an impediment to the residential mobility on the Dutch housing market. Improving the residential mobility of households aged 55 and older has the biggest potential herein, which in turn contributes to the residential mobility of other households. It is therefore important in the housing provision to develop new housing that suits the desires of households aged 55 and older. This study therefore aims to gain insight into the housing preferences of households aged 55 and older in the Netherlands. Herein included, this study explores the extent of interest and preferences with regard to housing types that stimulate social interaction, which are being encouraged in the housing provision in the Netherlands. Through a secondary analysis of the WoON 2021 datafile, a better understanding of the group of people aged 55 and older is gained through exploration of the sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics and the characteristics of the current dwelling. Subsequently, the housing preferences are explored of moving-inclined households in WoON. As the moving inclination of households can be influenced by the current possibilities on the housing market, the study explores the extent to which households aged 55 and older would have a desire to move if an attractive dwelling that meets their desires would be present, through a digital survey. This study subsequently gains insight into the housing preferences of this group of people and explores the extent of interest with regard to housing types that are to stimulate social interaction, comprising homes with common spaces. This study shows that a notable share of people aged 55 and older would have a desire t, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Management in the Built Environment

The main aim in this study was to investigate how the active participants of a self-organized and socially mobilizing operation called Santa Croce/Spin Time Labs in Rome, Italy described their work regarding creating an alternative and inclusive common cityspace. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with active participants in the Spin Time Labs-part of the organization that is designated to cultural-and service aligned activities. The study uses a primary theoretical framework based on Henri Lefevbre’s ideas regarding ‘The right to the city’ and the production of social space, together with the concept of ‘Parity of participation’, developed by Nancy Fraser, concerning the creation and fulfillment of social justice principles. Furthermore, scientific research regarding commons spaces and self-organization were used to analyze the phenomenon known as "Squatting” through the perspective of occupation as a form of producing alternative cityspaces. The results pointed at a few experiences that could be seen as crucial both connected to participants current work-situation and also concerning the future of the operation. Mainly, it showed that the participants, through their active participation, have managed to create a useful balance of meeting the needs of both the occupations inhabitants and the surrounding neighborhood. At the same time, this very balance has served as a functional alternative strategy for managing to create an inclusive and open common cityspace. Altogether, it shows that with their combined effort, they could create something that potentially could have a long-lasting impact. Both on an individual level, creating a solidary sustainable resource allocation and improving the mental health for the people involved in the operation, as well as for urban society at a broader perspective. Additional research could be focused on finding possible pathways for the operations further management and development in the neoliberal society of today.

The concepts of collective management of housing and urban spaces are being revisited within the contemporary discussions about community-driven approaches and practices and, in particular, related to the revitalization of residential neighbourhoods. This research identifies the concepts of self-management and social ownership of housing in the post-World War II period in Yugoslavia as an important legacy of Yugoslav urban planning and housing policies. Although they were subsequently neglected, these concepts can contribute to contemporary global discussions about housing affordability and the role of community in ensuring spatial and social equality. New Belgrade mass housing blocks—the main site for testing the new dwelling concepts, in terms of both policies and modernist design—are the object of this research. The article is mainly a theoretical analysis of the issues of common interest and engagement, common good, and common spaces which played a decisive role in its design. The study applies interpretative and correlational research methods in re-theorizing these concepts and their underlying narratives. It traces how the perspectives on the collective practices and spaces evolved over time, revealing a correlation between changed social practices and the spatial deterioration of the New Belgrade mass housing blocks. The study highlights the importance of both collective practices and common spaces for addressing housing issues, emphasizing their instrumentality, and potentiality for rearticulating the dialogue between public and private, engaging citizens in interactive and inclusive decision-making and co-creation of the urban reality., Heritage & Technology

The article examines the existing infrastructure of open common spaces within two New Belgrade mass housing blocks (Blocks 23 and 70a) through a typo-morphological analysis. These spaces between the buildings, although the most neglected, underused, and deteriorated components of mass housing neighbourhoods, are at the same time crucial to the quality, vitality and integrated governance of these neighbourhoods. They represent the primary tangible commons in cities and neighbourhoods. The question of urban commons is increasingly present in scientific literature, urban and architectural discourse. Nevertheless, approaches exploring the spatiality of the urban commons are scarce, leading to insufficient understanding of the spatial aspect and potentials of the already existing commons. Therefore, this study includes (1) identification, typological decoding and classification of the common spaces, focusing on the case of New Belgrade blocks, followed by (2) analysis of the spatial patterns and integration of the identified spaces within the blocks. The study confirms the complexity and diverse typology of the common spaces. It finds that the in-between, common spaces contribute to higher integration of different segments of the blocks. The open common spaces have an essential role in humanisation of the blocks, and thus the quality of life in the blocks as integrated neighbourhoods. The findings indicate that the spatial setting of the open common spaces in New Belgrade blocks allows for (re)emergence of collective practices, leading to inclusive and integrated rehabilitation of the neighbourhoods., Heritage & Architecture, Heritage & Technology

This article is the first approach of an investigation that seeks to understand the discor dance between the design of common spaces of social condominiums and the ways their inhabitants living them. The approach is characterized by two conceptual shifts: firstly, a transit from the isolated consideration of the dwelling to a directed attention of the common spaces and, secondly, from the expert point of view to the consideration of the experience of the inhabitants. Recognizing that housing transformations have been extensively studied, it is intended to generate knowledge regarding the way in which the inhabitants react to anomalies in common spaces, driven socio-spatially stabilizations given by "informal” interventions. Some of these adaptive strategies and the case of a land grab are shown, showing how these strategies are deployed, what resources are mobilized, their repercussions in space and in the patterns of community organization additionally to the possibilities of learning for public policy., Resumen: Este artículo es un primer acercamiento a una investigación en desarrollo que busca com prender la discordancia existente entre el diseño de espacios comunes de condominios sociales y los modos de habitar de sus habitantes actuales. El enfoque está caracterizado por dos desplazamientos conceptuales: desde la consideración aislada de la vivienda a la tematización de los espacios comunes y desde la mirada experta a la consideración de la experiencia de los habitantes. Reconociendo que se han estudiado profusamente las transformaciones de la vivienda, se pretende generar conocimiento respecto a la manera en que los habitantes responden frente a las anomalías de espacios comunes, que usual mente se estabilizan socio espacialmente en intervenciones "informales”. Se presentan algunas de estas estrategias adaptativas y como estas se despliegan en el caso de una toma de terrenos el caso de una toma de terrenos, cuáles son los recursos que movilizan, cuáles son sus repercusiones en el espacio y en las formas de organización comunitaria, y las posibilidades de aprendizaje que nos dejan para la política pública.

In verschiedenen städtischen Kontexten weltweit brachte das 20. Jahrhundert den Übergang von der Stadt-als-Spielplatz, die von Kindern angeeignet und gelebt wird, zum Rückzug der Kinder auf speziell für sie gestaltete Spielplätze. Die gegenwärtige Verbreitung von Spielgeräten ähnlicher Bauart und Materialien in vielen Städten entspricht bestimmten Vorstellungen sowohl der Kindheit als auch der Stadt. Dieser Beitrag wählt einen interdisziplinären Ansatz, um diese Repräsentationen von Kindheit und Stadt und die Interaktion zwischen ihnen zu diskutieren. Mit besonderem Fokus auf Spielplätze in Mexiko-Stadt diskutiert der Aufsatz das Verhältnis zwischen diesen und der Entstehung eines globalen Bildes von Kindheit. Es wird untersucht, inwieweit der Bau von Spielplätzen tatsächlich auf die Förderung des kindlichen Spiels abzielt und ob Spielplätze heute noch räumliche Bezüge und Territorien für Kinder darstellen (können). Der Artikel setzt sich kritisch mit dem Begriff des öffentlichen Raums auseinander und zeigt, wie dieser dazu dienen kann, eine neoliberale Transformation der Stadt voranzutreiben., The transition from a city-as-playground, appropriated and lived by children, to children’s withdrawal into playgrounds specifically designed for them during the 20th Century, has been shown in a variety of urban contexts around the world. The current proliferation of children’s playground equipment of similar design and materials in many cities corresponds to a representation of both childhood and the city. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach to discuss these representations of childhood and the city, and the interaction between them. With a particular focus on playgrounds in Mexico City, it interrogates their link with the conformation of a global image of childhood. It examines whether the construction of playgrounds aims to enhance children’s play, and whether they still constitute spatial references and territories for contemporary children. It critically addresses the concept of public space to show how it can be used to enhance a neoliberal approach to the city.

[ES] Marta, una joven de Ontinyent, inicia una propuesta de cooperativa de viviendas en el centro histórico del pueblo, revitalizándolo después de años en desuso. El hilo conductor del proyecto es la vida colaborativa, la forma de habitar lugares de manera conjunta y de cómo se convive con el resto de ciudad. La solución, en forma de proyecto, dota a la población de un nuevo sitio habitable, dando respuesta a cuestiones directas como el lugar y el programa, mediante una construcción precisa y correcta., [EN] Marta, a young girl from Ontinyent, starts a proposal for a housing cooperative in the historic centre of the town, revitalizing it after years of disuse. The thread of the project is the collaborative life, the way of living places together and how it is coexisted with the rest of the city. The solution, provides the population with a new habitable site, giving answers to direct questions such as the place and the programme, by means of a precise and correct construction.

[ES] El proyecto consiste en una cooperativa de viviendas en cesión de uso ubicada en el barrio del Cabanyal. Se plantea con una implantación disgregada y centra su argumento en los cuidados, en los espacios comunes del edificio y en la reivindicación de la calle y del espacio público. Trata de repensar y abordar las nuevas formas de habitar contemporáneas, adaptándose a ellas, con el fin de dar una respuesta a la diversidad de necesidades que existen en la realidad actual del barrio., [EN] The aim of the project it's to create a housing cooperative located in the Cabanyal neighborhood. It is proposed with a disaggregated implementation, and the project focuses its argument on care, in the common spaces of the building and in the reclaim of the street and the public space. Its aim is to rethink and approach new contemporary ways of living in order to respond to the diversity of needs that exist in the current reality of the neighborhood.

[ES] Este proyecto consiste en un nuevo modo de habitar, un habitar cooperativo entre los habitantes del edificio y el vecindario del entorno. El lugar escogido para la realización de estas viviendas colectivas es un gran solar en el barrio de Ayora, frente a la estación Marítim-Serrería. A pesar de ser un enclave condenado a la especulación y de no estar bien resuelto, es un lugar lleno de vida. Se toma como un reto en el que mejorar la calidad de vida del vecindario próximo a la parcela y de los habitantes de la cooperativa, a partir de las oportunidades que nos ofrece el emplazamiento. Este habitar cooperativo se materializa en un gran complejo de viviendas y espacios comunes. El elemento protagonista es un corredor que recorre todo el complejo, articulando los espacios del habitar, dotándolo de riqueza y complejidad formal. En planta baja se sustrae parte del volumen, generando entradas al interior de la cooperativa, dando a 3 espacios públicos de diferentes escalas que incitan a acceder y disfrutar de un espacio de calidad, diseñado para el disfrute de todos los ciudadanos. Un recinto de vital importancia dentro del proyecto es la escuela de danza María Carbonell, ubicada en una medianera de la parcela, la cual se amplía hacia la plaza pública de la cooperativa generando un punto de interés local para los ciudadanos. En definitiva, lo que se propone es un habitar cooperativo en un lugar estratégico de la ciudad de Valencia, el cual mejore el urbanismo existente, se cree una nueva forma de habitar en comunidad y aumente la calidad de vida de las personas que vivan y pasen por allí., [EN] This project consists of a new way of living, a cooperative living between the inhabitants of the building and the surrounding neighbourhood. The place chosen for the construction of these collective dwellings is a large plot in the district of Ayora, right in front of the Marítim-Serrería station. Despite being an enclave condemned to speculation and not being well resolved It is a place full of life. It is taken as a challenge to improve the quality of life of the neighbourhood near the plot and of the inhabitants of the cooperative, based on the opportunities offered by the location. This cooperative living is materialised in a large complex of dwellings and common spaces. The main element is a corridor that runs through the whole complex, articulating the living spaces, giving it richness and formal complexity. On the ground floor, part of the volume is subtracted, generating entrances to the interior of the cooperative giving way to 3 public spaces of different scales that encourage access and enjoyment of a quality space designed for the enjoyment of all citizens. An enclosure of vital importance within the project is the María Carbonell dance school, located on a party wall of the plot, which is extended towards the public square of the cooperative, generating a point of local interest for the citizens. On balance, what is proposed is a cooperative dwelling in a strategic place in the city of Valencia, which improves the existing urban planning, creates a new way of living in community and increases the quality of life of the people who live and stroll through it.

The goal of the present work was to define and understand the criteria that lead to the formation of indicators in order to understand the variables regarding the right to cohabit common spaces in sustainable conditions. This is a reference of qualifying cities in metropolitan areas based on the theories of habitability, urban competitiveness and new urbanism. In methodological terms, the axes of permeability, variety, robustness, legibility and richness were analyzed. These show the social, economic and environmental dimensions in which the categories of measurement were classified. All are signs of inclusive growth and principles of habitability in favor of urban competitiveness. The results of this study are reflected in the interpretation of those categories that suggests the design of indicators to delimit the meaning and performance of institutional projects and policies. This work is in favor of the decision making of the groups to improve the quality of life in the cities of metropolitan areas of the valley of Mexico., El propósito del presente trabajo fue definir y entender los criterios que inducen a la conformación de indicadores que permitan comprender las variables relativas al derecho de cohabitar espacios comunes en condiciones sostenibles. Esto como una referencia para calificar ciudades de zonas metropolitanas con base en las teorías de habitabilidad, competitividad urbana y nuevo urbanismo. En términos metodológicos, se analizaron los ejes de permeabilidad, de variedad, de robustez, de legibilidad y de riqueza. De estos se desprendieron las dimensiones sociales, económicas y ambientales en las que se clasificaron las categorías de medición. Resultan ser señales del crecimiento inclusivo y de los principios de habitabilidad a favor de la competitividad urbana. Las aportaciones de este estudio se reflejan en la interpretación de dichas categorías que encamina al diseño de indicadores para delimitar el significado y el desempeño de proyectos y políticas institucionales. De esta manera se trabaja a favor de la toma de decisiones de los colectivos para mejorar la calidad de vida en las ciudades de zonas metropolitanas del valle de Toluca, México.

The changing ways of being together: From collective to common spaces in welfare housing Many European versions of the welfare state (such as the Swedish model) included, on their smallest level, an infrastructure of “common spaces” in communal housing estates for tenants to meet, and organize themselves politically. Governmental planning saw them as important to the “democratic citizen”. Common spaces were one element of nationwide spatial and organizational structures to foster biopolitical governing and to reproduce the welfare society. This round table discussion explores common spaces as a spatio-social concept inspired by the commons, as studied by the political economist Elinor Ostrom. We argue that common spaces have been fundamental to the welfare state until its neoliberalization in the early 1990s, and that the divorce of the spatial dimension from the bureaucratic apparatus has contributed to its demise. Elinor Ostrom conducted field studies on how local communities self-organize for managing shared natural resources, and how, over time, economically and ecologically sustainable rules were established. The concept of the commons and the welfare state model agree in some basic ideas but not in all. Both envision provision for the individual’s existential needs within the framework of collective rules, however, Ostrom’s commons depart in one crucial point from the welfare state ideal – her principle of the commons required the exclusion of unentitled parties. Michal Hardt and Jacques Rancière suggest the common as a field of the sensible and perceptible, a field in which political recognition and decision-making takes place. Sensibilities and imaginaries of the common were embedded in the technocracy of the welfare state. Is it possible to regard the early welfare state as a conceptual framework for discussing networks of care for the future? This round table discussion proposes the welfare state model as a laboratory for exploring different modes of, QC 20210614

The research involves enhanced use of public school buildings and open spaces. Improvements to school spaces and renewal of learning places will be made through small, dedicated architectural projects. Regeneration projects will take schools’ open and common spaces as their starting point. The modification process will examine the requirements of experimental teaching, evaluate the needs of the scholastic community and observe the specific physical condition of the school structures included in the research. The research, with the collaboration of an inter-disciplinary team, aims to propose guidelines for a change to existing culture within public schools. We intend to promote processes whereby schools are opened to associations undertaking socially relevant programmes, such as parents’ organizations and non-profit organizations. We aim to start processes for the re-use and regeneration of the many abandoned spaces inside schools. We wish to promote updated teaching systems using new innovative models. The main theme of this research is to give physical shape to the Community’s sense of belonging to the school, and to re-define a reciprocal relationship between the school and all those who live in it. A project of architecture which can give a recognizable identity to anonymous spaces. A project that aims to offer new future and achievable perspectives for improvement to locations where social criticalities, nihilism, exclusion, marginalization, and sometimes violence, seem to prevail. The care for spaces, gardens, trees, new play-grounds, canteens, atrium, will reconfigure weak areas as areas in which new shared values are shown. An essential aspect of the architectural project includes the revision of technical components related to shading/sunny spaces, healthiness, security and energy efficiency. The scholastic heritage is re-designed in a qualitative sense through a new process of signifying and regenerating the common spaces by minimal interventions, allowing

Entendiendo a las ciudades como partes interrelacionadas de un territorio con el que debemos operar, el objetivo general del presente trabajo sería proponer pautas de adecuación y densificación a partir de la ciudad existente que, partiendo del análisis y reinterpretación del tejido urbano-habitacional de algunos casos de estudio en Rosario, puedan proyectar escenarios alternativos a los del Estado y el mercado. Así, a partir del paradigma de lo común y lo relacional, se plantea realizar algunas propuestas posibles de diseño y planificación del desarrollo urbano en torno a los lineamientos que marca la Nueva Agenda Urbana consensuada en el acuerdo de Quito en Hábitat III en 2016. Se abordarán algunos aspectos, tales como el derecho a la ciudad, la auto-organización comunitaria, las redes municipales, la alianza público-ONG-comunitario o la densificación de centros, siempre intentando conciliar la cuestión del desarrollo sustentable tanto en términos sociales, como económicos, culturales y ambientales., Understanding cities as interrelated parts of a territory with which we must operate, the general objective of this work would be to propose patterns of adaptation and densification from the existing city that can project alternative scenarios to those of the State and the market, starting from the analysis and reinterpretation of the urban-housing fabric from some examples in Rosario. Thus, from the paradigm of the common and the relational, it’s proposed to make some possible proposals for the design and planning of urban development around the guidelines established by the New Urban Agenda agreed in the Quito agreement in Habitat III in 2016. Some aspects will addressed, such as the right to the city, the community self-organization, the local networks, the public-NGO-community alliance or the densification of centers, always trying to reconcile the issue of sustainable development in social, economic, cultural and environmental terms.