Towards Sustainable Cities and Communities: Paradoxes of Inclusive Social Housing Strategies

2022 ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Angela Greco ◽  
Tom B. Long
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (46) ◽  
pp. 464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Braga

<p>Este trabalho visa discutir e desenvolver parâmetros e indicadores de sustentabilidade para a avaliação de Zonas Especiais de Interesse Social-ZEIS para a implantação de habitação de interesse social. A ZEIS é um instrumento criado nos anos 1980 e adotado pelo Estatuto da Cidade (Lei Federal 10.257/2001), que visa a regularização fundiária e implantação de habitação de interesse social. A área de estudo é o município de Piracicaba, estado de São Paulo, Brasil, com 370 mil habitantes, na região de Campinas. A sustentabilidade das ZEIS foi avaliada a partir de sua localização e com base em um sistema de quatro grupos de indicadores: densidade/compacidade urbana; ecologia urbana; diversidade socioespacial e conectividade/acessibilidade. Para cada em desses grupos foram avaliados indicadores específicos que puderam qualificar cada umas das ZEIS. Os resultados apontaram que a maioria das ZEIS criadas não só descumpriram requisitos básicos de sustentabilidade, como diminuíram a sustentabilidade do sistema urbano como um todo.</p><p><strong>Palavras–chave:</strong> ZEIS, sustentabilidade, habitação social, expansão urbana, cidades sustentáveis.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This paper aims to discuss and develop benchmarks and indicators for assessing the sustainability of Special Zones of Social Interest-ZEIS for the implementation of social housing. The ZEIS is an instrument created in 1980 and adopted by the City Statute (Federal Act 10257/2001), which aims to secure tenure and implementation of social housing. The study area is the city of Piracicaba, State of São Paulo, Brazil, with 370,000 inhabitants in the region of Campinas. The sustainability of ZEIS was assessed from its location and based on a system of four groups of indicators: density / urban compactness; urban ecology; socio-spatial diversity and connectivity / accessibility. For each of these groups on specific indicators that might qualify every one of ZEIS were evaluated. The results showed that most ZEIS created not only breached basic sustainability requirements, decreased as the sustainability of the urban system as a whole.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: ZEIS, sustainability, social housing, urban expansion, sustainable cities.</p>


Author(s):  
Barbara Schönig

Going along with the end of the “golden age” of the welfare state, the fordist paradigm of social housing has been considerably transformed. From the 1980s onwards, a new paradigm of social housing has been shaped in Germany in terms of provision, institutional organization and design. This transformation can be interpreted as a result of the interplay between the transformation of national welfare state and housing policies, the implementation of entrepreneurial urban policies and a shift in architectural and urban development models. Using an integrated approach to understand form and function of social housing, the paper characterizes the new paradigm established and nevertheless interprets it within the continuity of the specific German welfare resp. housing regime, the “German social housing market economy”.


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