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Large Housing Estates, Policy Interventions and the Implications for Policy Transfer

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Mass Housing in Europe

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To a considerable extent the pattern and nature of the post-WWII large planned housing estates were influenced by a common professional and technological view about what would make a successful estate (see, e.g., Turkington et al., 2005 and Chapter 1 of this book). A coalition of interests between national and local governments, the architectural profession, planners and the construction industry favoured particular types of standard developments. Images of mass housing estates across Europe are remarkably similar, and they are also familiar in North America. Superficially then, there is a phase of mass housing associated with a particular historical conjuncture, reflecting the common challenges facing different economies (Murie et al., 2003).

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  1. Alan Murie
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  1. Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

    Rob Rowlands (lecturer) (lecturer)

  2. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Sako Musterd (Professor of Social Geography) (Professor of Social Geography)

  3. Urban and Regional Research Centre, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

    Ronald van Kempen (Professor of Urban Geography) (Professor of Urban Geography)

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Murie, A., van Kempen, R. (2009). Large Housing Estates, Policy Interventions and the Implications for Policy Transfer. In: Rowlands, R., Musterd, S., van Kempen, R. (eds) Mass Housing in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274723_8

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