Contested issues surrounding social sustainability and self-building in Italy

Bronzini, Micol

doi:10.1080/14616718.2016.1223450

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“…It is argued that people are in the best position to design and develop housing according to their own needs, as needs are infinitely complex (Scott, 2012). On an aggregate scale, this could help achieve goals related to social and environmental sustainability (Bronzini, 2016). Equally attractive is the flexibility self-build offers in terms of urban development, offering a mode of incremental development that potentially can mismatches between demand and supply (Madanipour, 2017;van Karnenbeek & Janssen-Jansen, 2018).…”

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The value of self-build: understanding the aspirations and strategies of owner-builders in the Homeruskwartier, Almere

Bossuyt

2020

Housing Studies

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This paper investigates the aspirations and strategies of self-builders of owner-occupied homes in a facilitated self-build scheme. It draws on a qualitative case-study of the Homeruskwartier in Almere, the Netherlands, one the largest assisted self-build schemes in presentday Europe, which caters to lower-and middle-income households. The study problematizes the notion that self-building necessarily leads to the pursuit of use values over exchange values. This questions the positive benefits attributed to self-building. The aspirations of self-builders are not only framed by social and material conditions, but are also being reframed in the action process. The paper stresses the contingent nature of aspirations and strategies and emphasizes the experimental nature of the self-building process.

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The value of self-build: understanding the aspirations and strategies of owner-builders in the Homeruskwartier, Almere

Bossuyt

2020

Housing Studies

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“…These contributions used a variety of frameworks and methods to explore and discuss a range of forms of self-organised housing (see Table 1 below). Other outputs from the call published separately in this journal provide perspectives from Belgium (Aernouts & Ryckewaert, 2017), Italy (Bronzini, 2017) and Spain (Cabre & Andres, 2017), taking the country coverage to ten. Thus, while not comprehensive, the coverage is quite wide and allows us to address some of the questions that stimulated the Special Issue call and contribute to a longer-term research agenda.…”

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confidence: 99%