Large Housing Estates in Sweden. Overview of developments and problems in Jönköping and Stockholm
| Document type: | Researchreport Non-BTH |
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| Author(s): | Roger Andersson, Irene Molina, Eva Öresjö, Lars Pettersson, Christina Siwertsson |
| Title: | Large Housing Estates in Sweden. Overview of developments and problems in Jönköping and Stockholm |
| Translated title: | Storskaliga bostadsområden i Sverige. En sammanställning av utvecklingen och problemen i Jönköping och Stockholm |
| Series: | RESTATE report |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Issue: | 2i |
| ISBN: | 90-6266-226-9 |
| Publisher: | Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Urban and regional research centre |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning (Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad) School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tks.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | eva.oresjo@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | All over Europe massive numbers of people live in large-scale housing estates built after the Second World War. The estates were carefully planned, but now often manifest a mulitude af problems. They house large numbers of low-income households, the unemployment rates are above average and in some countries they have become concentration areas for ethnic minorities. Many estates are becoming increasingly associated with crime and social exclusion. The circumstances on the estates and policy initiatives associated with these are focus of the RESTATE-project. RESTATE is the acronym for Restructuring Large-scale Housing Estates in European Cities: Good Practices and New Visions for Sustainable Neighbourhoods and Cities. The study draws on estates in ten European countries: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The present report deals specifically with large housing estates in two cities in Sweden: Jönköping och Stockholm. The basic questions are about physical structure, demographic-, economic- and socio-cultural developments. The same kind of information for estates in other countries in the RESTATE-project can be found in the parallel reports |
| Summary in Swedish: | Storskaliga bostadsområden, segregation, Ekonomisk och socio-kulturell utveckling |
| Subject: | Spatial Planning\Social Planning Spatial Planning\Housing Spatial Planning\Local Planning |
| Keywords: | Large Housing Estates, Segregation, Social exclusion |
| Note: | Urban and regional research centre Utrecht,P.O. Box 80.115,3508 TC Utrecht, the Netherlands. RESTATE-website http://www.restate.geog.uu.nl. ISBN: 90-6266-226-9 |
