Sustainable Collective Housing

Policy and Practice for Multi-family Dwellings

Lee Ann Nicol

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781136193637
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architettura
• Subtopic: Pianificazione urbana e paesaggistica

Housing stocks provide much more than just shelter. Energy suppliers, pension fund managers and public transit providers are but a few of the many stakeholders that have a regulated interest in the non-shelter goods and services offered by housing. Such stakeholders and their activities are traditionally addressed on a sectoral basis, yet regulations that are designed to apply to one often have unintended effects on another, effects that may produce negative pressure on the housing stock – and the wider built environment – in terms of sustainability.

Sustainable Collective Housing presents a new and comprehensive approach to the study of the regulations pertaining to housing: the institutional regimes framework. By considering the housing stock as a resource, this framework enables the ensemble of public policies, property rights and contracts that govern all shelter and non-shelter uses of housing to be identified, analyzed and evaluated. Using examples from Switzerland, Germany and Spain, this book describes the regulatory conditions that must be in place before housing sustainability issues can be effectively tackled. The book will provide policy-makers, housing stock owners and other stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to make rational and legitimate decisions regarding housing sustainability.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Tables
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Institutional regimes for housing sustainability
• 2 The need for a new approach to the study of housing sustainability
• 3 The composition of the institutional regime
• 4 Hypotheses, research design and methodology
• 5 Presentation of case study housing stocks
• 6 Relating changes in the regime to changes in management strategies and uses of the housing stock
• 7 Extent, coherence and housing stock sustainability
• 8 Prioritization of residential goods and services and the physical integrity of the housing stock
• 9 Importance of non-residential goods and services
• 10 Continuity of actors
• 11 Housing sustainability, stock owners and user-actors: additional key findings and conclusions
• 12 The use of the institutional regimes framework for the study of housing stocks
• Bibliography
• Appendix 1 Indicators used for assessing sustainability of goods and services
• Appendix 2 Common framework for case study analysis
• Index