Between the late 1940s and the 1970s, the New Brutalism attempted to establish an ethical architecture befitting post-World War II Britain. For this reason, it became a popular style for public buildings, including social housing. Brutalist social housing estates were conceived by progressive post-war architects to house Britain’s neediest. Through an analysis of the utopian roots of Brutalism and the decline of the style and its ethic in scholarship and popular culture, I analyze the current redevelopment of three seminal Brutalist housing estates and the rediscovery of the Brutalist aesthetic by contemporary scholars and consumers alike. In this thesis, I argue that due to multiple factors, including a housing shortage across Britain, rising real-estate values and a general consumer interest in mid-century design, these estates are undergoing such regenerations. My thesis enhances our understanding of how social and political influences have shaped post-war British social housing up to the present.

Este trabalho coloca em discussão a problemática da inserção do mobiliário na habitação popular urbana. Analisa a atual produção do móvel popular e diferentes experiências e projetos que enfocam uma melhor adequação do móvel nos pequenos espaços das habitações urbanas. Com esta pesquisa, cria-se um quadro de base para o desenvolvimento de diretrizes de projetos que visem a melhoria da habitabilidade destas moradias, viabilizada através de uma relação mais coerente entre o mobiliário e a casa. / This work puts in discussion the problem of placing the furniture in social urban housing. It analyses the actual production of furniture for the low-income people and different experiences and designs, which treats a better adequacy of furniture in small space of urban housing. This research creates a basic scene for the development of design orientations with the goal of getting better the habitability of such homes, allowed through a more consistent relation between the furniture and the house.

Este trabalho coloca em discussão a problemática da inserção do mobiliário na habitação popular urbana. Analisa a atual produção do móvel popular e diferentes experiências e projetos que enfocam uma melhor adequação do móvel nos pequenos espaços das habitações urbanas. Com esta pesquisa, cria-se um quadro de base para o desenvolvimento de diretrizes de projetos que visem a melhoria da habitabilidade destas moradias, viabilizada através de uma relação mais coerente entre o mobiliário e a casa. / This work puts in discussion the problem of placing the furniture in social urban housing. It analyses the actual production of furniture for the low-income people and different experiences and designs, which treats a better adequacy of furniture in small space of urban housing. This research creates a basic scene for the development of design orientations with the goal of getting better the habitability of such homes, allowed through a more consistent relation between the furniture and the house.

The importance of housing has been discussed in several disciplines as a basic need, a fundamental human right, and a source of economic and social security; but the social housing system in Ontario has been downloaded from higher levels of government to municipalities with little to no increase in funding or program governance. In this thesis, I argue that the policies and programs that govern the social housing system in Ontario focus on a service provision perspective that maintains the status quo, particularly the stigma attached to social housing projects and homeless people. Using interviews with activists and a review of the literature, I suggest that activists have a role in changing the way this service-oriented perspective works by bringing forward the realities of homelessness in the public realm to alter social thought, agendas, and actions.

The importance of housing has been discussed in several disciplines as a basic need, a fundamental human right, and a source of economic and social security; but the social housing system in Ontario has been downloaded from higher levels of government to municipalities with little to no increase in funding or program governance. In this thesis, I argue that the policies and programs that govern the social housing system in Ontario focus on a service provision perspective that maintains the status quo, particularly the stigma attached to social housing projects and homeless people. Using interviews with activists and a review of the literature, I suggest that activists have a role in changing the way this service-oriented perspective works by bringing forward the realities of homelessness in the public realm to alter social thought, agendas, and actions.

Saisir la relation de l’État aux utilités qu’un logement social est à même d’offrir, tel est le fondement de cette étude. La relation entre propriété publique et logement social, aisément perceptible en cas de mobilisation des propriétés publiques en vue de la réalisation d’une opération de logement social ou de propriété publique d’un logement social, exige pour être pleinement appréhendée de reconsidérer l’approche de la propriété en droit public, comme elle l’est au demeurant en droit privé. Retenant une approche dite « structurale », la propriété publique est alors entendue, matériellement, comme une chose publique, en raison de la nature publique de la personne qui exerce une maîtrise sur cette chose, elle-même considérée comme une somme d’utilités, et formellement, comme le droit de propriété public, en raison de la nature publique du titulaire de ce droit, lui-même défini comme le pouvoir de jouir et de disposer, sauf sources d’obligations contraires, de toutes les utilités qu’une chose est à même d’offrir. En matière de logement social, l’État est non seulement titulaire d’un droit personnel sur le bailleur de logement social, mais également d’un droit réel passif sur l’habitation locative affectée au service public. Autrement dit, en encadrant le pouvoir de jouir et de disposer du bailleur, l’État se réserve la valeur de l’habitation locative affectée à due proportion du financement public de l’activité de logement social, et cela sans en être formellement propriétaire. Finalement, à l’instar de la large confusion de l’histoire du logement avec l’évolution de la conception de la propriété, l’histoire du logement social se confond largement avec l’évolution proposée de la conception de la propriété publique. / Understand the relationship of the State to utilities that social housing is able to offer, specifically the distribution of rights and obligations in connection or on a rental housing assigned to the public service of social housing, is the foundation of our study. The relationship between public ownership and social housing, easily perceptible in case of mobilization of public properties for the realization of a housing project or public ownership of social housing, requires to be fully understood to reconsider the approach to ownership in public law, as it is in any private law. Neither the « classic » approach nor the « renovated » one of the property can grip the right owned by the State on social housing, only a « structural » approach allows. Based on this approach, public ownership is then heard, materially, as a public thing, because of the public nature of the person who exercises control over this thing, itself considered as a sum of utilities, and formally, as the right to public property, because of the public nature of the copyright owner, itself defined as the power to enjoy and dispose unless otherwise sources obligations of all the utilities that a thing is even to offer. In social housing, the State is not only holds a personal right on the provider of social housing, as it is traditionally on any manager of a public service, but also a real right on liability rental housing assigned to the public service of social housing. In other words, framing the power to enjoy and dispose of social housing landlord, the State reserves the value of rental housing affected in due proportion of the public funding of social housing activity, and this without being formal owner. Thus, the State controls the use value and exchange value of social housing yet belonging to others. Finally, like the wide confusion in the history of housing with the evolution of the design of the property, the history of social housing is largely coincides with the evolution of the design of public property.

In recent years, along with the soaring housing price level, housing problem in China turned out to be in the spotlight more than ever before. With the high housing price, low and moderate-income families find itvery difficult for them to buy their own dwelling. In order to meet the needs of low and moderate-income families and lessen the overheating, Chinese government carried out some plans, one among which was the Public Rental Housing program. Public Rental Housings mostly serve for low and moderate-income family to live, with a lower rent than market rent on the same condition. And there are other limits or drawbacks such as monitoring and housing register problem. Details of the limits differ from city to city. In this thesis, public renal housing project in Chong Qing, the first city implemented public rental housing to a great extent in China will be studied. Market analysis on both demand side and supply side is carried out to examine the influence on residential market and whether public rental housing can ease the overheating in residential market. A questionnaire is used to study public acknowledgement and satisfaction with public rental housing projects in Beijing (for convenience). The finding is: current public rental housing can ease the market but this policy requires better financing resource, subsidy policy to backup, monitor system and more involvement of society resources.

In recent years, along with the soaring housing price level, housing problem in China turned out to be in the spotlight more than ever before. With the high housing price, low and moderate-income families find it very difficult for them to buy their own dwelling. In order to meet the needs of low and and moderate-income families and lessen the overheating, Chinese goverment carried out some plans, one among which was the Public Rental Housing program. Public Rental Housings mostly serve for low and moderate-income family to live, with a lower rent than market rent on the same condition. And there are other limits or drawbacks sach as monitioring and housing register problem. Details of the limits differ from city to city. In this thesis, Public rental Housing project in Chong Qing, the first city implemented Public rental Housing to a great extent in China will be studied. Market analysis on both demand side and supply side is carried out to examine the influence on residential market and whether Public Rental housing can ease the overheating in residential market. A questionnaire is used to study public acknowledgement and satisfaction with Public Rental Housing projects in Beijing (for convenience). The finding is: Current public Rental Housing can ease the market but this policy requires better financing resource, subsidy policy to back up, monitor system and more involvement of society resources.

The parcel is situated in Trnita, city part Brno-center. Today this part of town is not stabilized, full of former industrial buildings and not suitable for pedestrians. The City Masterplan has this area to be transformed. Design of this project is based on previous semestral work where was planned new buildings for mixed use, preferably residential. Diploma project is made in the scale of the city block, designed as a social housing and providing a social diversity.

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