Gerade herausgekommen ist die aktuelle Ausgabe des International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 35(1). Dort abgedruckt ist eine Besprechung zu John Gilderblooms Buch „Invisible City“ über einen Vergleich von verschiedenen wohnungsopolitischen Ansätzen in den USA:
Invisible City: Poverty Housing and New Urbanism – By John Ingram Gilderbloom (pages 211–213)
John Ingram Gilderbloom 2008: Invisible City: Poverty Housing and New Urbanism . Austin: University of Texas Press.
Gilderbloom’s Invisible City is written against the background of 25 years of experience in housing research in the field of US housing policies. His book, many chapters of which were written in collaboration with colleagues, is based on numerous case studies and demonstrates through different dimensions of housing that ‘the private rental market alone cannot provide affordable housing for all citizens, and this is especially true for minorities’ (p. 200). Invisible City refers to the people ‘whom we walk past every day and never truly see’: the poor, disabled, elderly and homeless. Invisible City moves beyond and past the front stage of a city and looks backstage. Moreover, Invisible City refers to solutions to solve the housing crisis that are far removed from the usual agenda of housing policy. (…)
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