Metropolitics

Participation and housing policies: a century-old phenomenon

Marie-Hélène Bacqué & Claire Carriou & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-10-24T04:55:00Z

The recent renewed interest in participatory housing experiments is, in fact, linked to a much longer history that can be traced back to the late 19th century, when the first public policies in France to encourage the construction of low-cost housing were introduced. Metropolitics looks at how this multifaceted history has laid the foundations for today's projects.
---- Dossier: Mutual Housing In France, since the late 1980s and the last realisations in a set of participatory housing

- Debates / participation, housing, alternative housing, cooperative housing, self-build, experimentation

(Re-)Inventing self-build housing in Strasbourg

Anne Debarre & Hélène Steinmetz & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-10-17T04:45:00Z

In the world of alternative housing, Strasbourg is an important player. Here, Anne Debarre and Hélène Steinmetz describe the stimulating process that has given rise to a growing number of self-build housing developments in and around the city.
---- Series: Mutual Housing Among the nebulous body of alternative housing projects that have emerged since 2000, the initiatives in Strasbourg stand out from the crowd for a number of reasons. In a context where a growing array of vocabulary is used to

- From the Field / participation, housing, alternative housing, Strasbourg, self-build, eco-neighborhood