Housing Strategies for Urban Redensification makes the case that unchecked urban sprawl is destroying the planet's scarcest resource — land — and that a century of alternative social housing practice already holds the corrective.
About This Book
The relentless outward expansion of cities has long been treated as an inevitability. Miquel Adria challenges that assumption directly, arguing that redensification — building back into the city rather than beyond it — is not a theoretical position but a proven practice with a rich precedent. Drawing on case studies spanning nearly a century of social housing, this book moves from the canonical Weißenhofsiedlung Estate to recent suburban experiments in Mexico, mapping how architects and planners have responded to population growth, displacement, and natural disaster. The result is a concise but pointed argument: the urban housing problem is inseparable from the origins and evolution of modernism itself.
Key Features
- 192 pages of case study analysis combining 118 colour and 56 black-and-white illustrations
- Authored by Miquel Adria
- Notable case studies include the Weißenhofsiedlung Estate (1927) and architectural experiments in suburban Mexico (up to 2017)
- Published by Arquine, 2017
What You'll Discover
- How urban redensification functions as a direct counter-strategy to the sprawl model that has dominated planning discourse for decades
- The way social housing projects across different national contexts have absorbed populations displaced by both rapid growth and natural disaster
- A lineage connecting early European modernist housing estates to contemporary Latin American experiments in suburban densification
- Why the history of urban housing is inextricably tied to the inception and ongoing progression of architectural modernism
About the Author
Miquel Adria is the author of this study on urban redensification and social housing strategy. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 192
- Dimensions: 16.5 x 11.4 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9786078880232
- Publisher: Arquine
- Publication Date: 2017
Perfect For: Urban designers, housing researchers, architects engaged with social housing, and students examining the relationship between modernism and the politics of urban density.