scholarly journals Territorial Stigmatisation and Poor Housing at a London ‘Sink Estate’

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Watt
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Housing Estates

This article offers a critical assessment of Loic Wacquant’s influential advanced marginality framework with reference to research undertaken on a London public/social housing estate. Following Wacquant, it has become the orthodoxy that one of the major vectors of advanced marginality is territorial stigmatisation and that this particularly affects social housing estates, for example via mass media deployment of the ‘sink estate’ label in the UK. This article is based upon a multi-method case study of the Aylesbury estate in south London—an archetypal stigmatised ‘sink estate.’ The article brings together three aspects of residents’ experiences of the Aylesbury estate: territorial stigmatisation and dissolution of place, both of which Wacquant focuses on, and housing conditions which he neglects. The article acknowledges the deprivation and various social problems the Aylesbury residents have faced. It argues, however, that rather than internalising the extensive and intensive media-fuelled territorial stigmatisation of their ‘notorious’ estate, as Wacquant’s analysis implies, residents have largely disregarded, rejected, or actively resisted the notion that they are living in an ‘estate from hell,’ while their sense of place belonging has not dissolved. By contrast, poor housing—in the form of heating breakdowns, leaks, infestation, inadequate repairs and maintenance—caused major distress and frustration and was a more important facet of their everyday lives than territorial stigmatisation. The article concludes by arguing that housing should be foregrounded, rather than neglected, in the analysis of the dynamics of urban advanced marginality.

Realising the Potential of Co-production: Negotiating Improvements in Public Services

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Needham
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Services ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
The Uk

The concept of co-production – also called co-creation – is gaining widespread attention as a way to increase user involvement in service provision in the UK. It is usually taken as self-evident that more co-production will improve services. However, it is necessary to be clear about how far and in what ways co-production can improve public services. This article looks at the purported advantages of co-production, and considers how these can best be accessed. A case study workshop involving social housing users and providers, conducted as part of the National Consumer Council-Unison Shared Solutions project, is used to illustrate the need for collective dialogue and deliberation between co-producers rather than purely transactional forms of co-production.

scholarly journals Challenging Racist Violence and Racist Hostility in 'Post-Racial' Times: Research and Action in Leeds, UK, 2006–2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Ian Law ◽  
Jenny Simms ◽  
Ala Sirriyeh
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Contemporary Climate

Despite increasing understanding of, information about and official commitment to challenge these patterns, racist hostility and violence continue to have an enduring presence in urban and rural life in the UK. This indicates the paradoxical nature of this racial crisis and challenges for antiracism as a political project. This paper charts how these issues play out at the local level through an examination of a five year process from problem identification through to research, response, action and aftermath from 2006 to 2012 in the city of Leeds, UK, with a focus on two predominantly white working class social housing estates in the city. We explore how embedded tensions and antagonisms can begin to be challenged, while examining how the contemporary climate of austerity and cuts in services, together with prevailing post-racial thinking, make the likelihood of such concerted action in the UK increasingly remote.

scholarly journals Growing Old in Cities. Council Housing Estates in Trieste as Laboratories for New Perspectives in Urban Planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Bricocoli ◽  
Elena Marchigiani
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Spatial Profile ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ageing Processes ◽  
Housing Estates

Significant ageing processes are affecting many regions across Europe and are changing the social and spatial profile of cities. In Trieste, Italy, a joint initiative by the public Health Agency and the Social Housing Agency has developed a programme targeting conditions that allow people to age at home. The outcomes of the programme stress the need to redesign and reorganise the living environment as a way to oppose to the institutionalisation of older people in specialised nursing homes. Based on intensive field work, this contribution presents and discusses the original and innovative inputs that the case study is offering to the Italian and European debate.

scholarly journals Guidelines for the rehabilitation of the housing estate with the CPTED strategy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Cieślak
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Housing Estates

Contemporary urbanists and architects are faced with the problem of adapting degraded post-communist neighbourhoods to the current needs of their inhabitants. Most of those housing estates need rehabilitation which is understood as an aspiration for reconstruction of settlement’s range as a human-friendly environment and regain it’s lost values. A CPTED strategy could be very helpful to define guidelines for the rehabilitation. Based on Crime Prevention through Environmental Design strategy the features of space like natural surveillance, space clarity, territoriality, the feeling of responsibility for public space and management can affect it’s quality. These aspects were very useful set of criteria for the author to try to express guidelines for the rehabilitation of the housing estate in Pabianice. Methods used in the research included physical inventory of the neighbourhood and questionnaire survey among the sample of 100 inhabitants of the analysed area. Conclusions from the use of both mentioned methods are well supplementing each other and are pointing the most severe spatil and social problems in the area. This how the environment of the housing estate looks like in the eyes of it’s inhabitants and visitors were crucial while shaping guidelines for rehabilitation

scholarly journals Evaluating Social Housing Retrofit Options to Support Clients’ Decision Making—SIMPLER BIM Protocol

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Tzortzopoulos ◽  
Ling Ma ◽  
João Soliman Junior ◽  
Lauri Koskela
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Cost Estimation ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Support Decision Making

The UK government made significant commitments to upgrading the energy efficiency of seven million British homes by 2020, aiming at reducing carbon emissions and addressing fuel poverty. One alternative to achieve better energy performance in existing houses is retrofit. However, there are difficulties associated with retrofitting social housing. It is currently challenging to compare scenarios (retrofit options) considering costs, potential energy efficiency gains, and at the same time minimising disruption to users. This paper presents a Building Information Modelling (BIM) protocol aimed to support decision making by social housing owners. It adopts BIM to simulate alternative retrofit options, considering: (a) potential reductions in energy consumption, (b) 4D BIM for retrofit planning and reduction of users’ disruption and (c) simulation of costs. A what-if scenario matrix is proposed to support decision making in the selection of social housing retrofit solutions, according to client and users’ needs. A case study of the retrofit of a mid-terrace house is presented to demonstrate the workflow. The main output of the work is the BIM protocol, which can support client decision making in diverse social housing retrofit projects, considering all three elements (energy simulation, planning for reduced disruption and cost estimation) in an integrated fashion. Such an integrated approach enables clients to make better informed decisions considering diverse social housing retrofit options through a simple process using readily available BIM technology.

scholarly journals New housing association development and its potential to reduce concentrations of deprivation: An English case study

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (16) ◽  
pp. 3388-3404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Crook ◽  
Peter Bibby ◽  
Ed Ferrari ◽  
Sarah Monk ◽  
Connie Tang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Housing Association ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Social Mix ◽  
Vulnerable Households ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Deprived Areas

Social housing across Western Europe has become significantly more residualised as governments concentrate on helping vulnerable households. Many countries are trying to reduce the concentrations of deprivation by building for a wider range of households and tenures. In England this policy has two main strands: (1) including other tenures when regenerating areas originally built as mono-tenure social housing estates and (2) introducing social rented and low-cost homeownership into new private market developments through planning obligations. By examining where new social housing and low-cost home ownership homes have been built and who moves into them, this paper examines whether these policies achieve social mix and reduce spatial concentrations of deprivation. The evidence suggests that new housing association development has enabled some vulnerable households to live in areas which are not deprived, while some better-off households have moved into more deprived areas. But these trends have not been sufficient to stem increases in deprivation in the most deprived areas.

scholarly journals Creating a sense of place and belonging in the classroom: An example of place-based education from the foothills of the Himalayas

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Doug Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Poster Presentation ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Holistic Learning ◽  
Multiple Dimensions

Educators engaging in the critical assessment of teaching and learning have often considered the importance of the physical environment (classroom). This poster presentation offers that “place” is more than a context for discovering curriculum. When we have access to the history and experiences of our places, we have the possibility of creating holistic learning environments rich with democracy and inclusivity. As our learning spaces have become increasingly homogenized and standardized, greater importance on reacquainting learners with their own environments and constructing new meaningful places is paramount. This poster presentation highlights teaching practices from village schools (Balwadis) in the foothills of the Himalayas. These practices were documented in a case study that the presenter coauthored and will offer that place, and learning, are inextricably intertwined. Using narratives, photos, and artifacts from the Balwadi teachers, participants will experience the multiple dimensions of place and environment and how these can be transformative agents for creating learning communities with a sense of place and belonging.  Participants will learn how to apply these strategies to their own classes to create a sense of place and belonging for their students.

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