Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing Turin, up to the Current Neo-Liberal Approach and Social Innovation Practices /

• Main Author: Caruso, Nadia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Sociology, Urban.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Urban Studies/Sociology.

This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution. Through a unique case study on the city of Turin it explores social innovation and the relationship between the urban regeneration process and housing pr...

Table of Contents:

• Critical background: social housing and its development during the decades
• Housing policies in Italy: from social housing to neo-liberalism
• The city of Turin: case study of innovative housing policies in the last decade
• Social housing & social innovation: remarks for future policies and practices.