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Substantial changes have taken place in housing policy ideas and practices over the last few decades. The role of the state, its relation to other agents and actors involved in housing production and provision, the levels and instruments of public intervention in housing, have all gone through considerable transformation. These changes reflect major shifts of direction in development policies and strategies and different interpretations of the relevance of housing in the processes of social and economic development. They are also, and very importantly, permeated by different understandings of the articulation of housing and the construction of cities and of the ways in which socio-economic and spatial/design strategies interact to reach the scale of housing needs. It pays particular attention to the phenomenon of urban and spatial informality as constitutive of the urban condition everywhere 鈥� from the slums of the impoverished cities of the developing world to their more 鈥榗amouflaged鈥� existence in the cities of the developed world. Informality places a radical challenge to the traditions of housing and urbanism and engaging with it involves a rethinking of the those disciplines themselves 鈥� their methodologies, tools and instruments of policy and spatial intervention. After an initial review of the contextual and historical circumstances of the evolution of housing theories and policies, this module will then explore the social-spatial challenges of a multi-sectoral, multi-dimensional and multi-scalar approach to the implementation of housing strategies and policies as drivers of urbanism.

This module is organised according to weekly teaching units, composed of weekly face-to-face encounters on campus (as indicated on the weekly DPU timetable) supported by readings and up to one-hour of asynchronous activities (including but not limited to short pre-recorded lectures) accessible on the module-specific Moodle page. Students are expected to dedicate approximately 150 learning hours per module per term, amounting to around 10-12 hours per week (for full-time students). You are expected to participate actively in all module activities and your participation will be routinely monitored. Over the course of the module, each participant is expected to engage in the learning activities by drawing on the literature and on his/her personal and practical experience. Participants should read at least the core readings (provided electronically via Moodle) and complete all asynchronous activities for each teaching unit. A list of further readings is also provided. All sessions of this module will be 2-hour long and divided in two parts. The first hour will be dedicated to lectures (either face to face or for the discussion of a pre-recorded lecture). The second hour will be driven by group work organised around core readings and any other supporting material provided. The class will be divided into groups, with one group leading the discussion in each session with a presentation of their findings.

Introduction: approach, structure and central arguments of the module followed by a lecture on 鈥楬ousing: Mimesis and the Loss of Identity鈥�
鈥楳odernisation, Modernism, and the Crisis of Mass Housing Policies鈥� 鈥� Lecture followed by group work on the subject
鈥楾he Emergence of Non-Conventional Housing Policies: abandoning the house鈥� 鈥� Lecture followed by group work on the subject
鈥楥ommunity Participation and Housing: questioning empowerment鈥� 鈥� Lecture followed by group work on the subject
鈥楬ousing Policy and Structural Adjustment: abandoning the poor?鈥� 鈥� Lecture followed by group work on the subject
鈥楴eoliberalising Housing Affordability: depoliticising housing鈥� 鈥� Lecture followed by group work on the subject
鈥楾owards a New Generation of Housing Policies: the search for scale and the return to space鈥� 鈥� Lecture followed by group work on the subject
鈥楤ack to the Future: the return of mass housing policies鈥� 鈥� Lecture followed by group work on the subject
鈥楥ity-wide Strategies and the Challenge of Scaling-up鈥� - Lecture followed by group work on the subject

Upon completion of the module, participants will be able to show:
鈥� A good understanding of the development of housing policies and the economic and political contexts in which they have emerged;
鈥� Knowledge of alternative approaches to social housing strategies and of their main actors and dimensions;
鈥� Good analytical capacity and understanding of the central conceptual issues involved in the study of housing policies;
鈥� Good understanding of the socio-spatial challenges to scaling-up housing provision.
鈥� An understanding of the growing articulation of housing and urban development strategies 鈥� housing as urbanism;
鈥� An understanding of the place of housing and urbanism in urban social policy;
鈥� An understanding of methodologies and tools of spatial design to address informal housing and the informal city.

Ruonavaara, H: (2018) 鈥淭heory of Housing, From Housing, About Housing鈥�, in Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 35, No. 2, 178鈥�192, Routledge https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14036096.2017.1347103?needAccess=true

Wakely, P, (1988) 鈥淭he Development of Housing Trough the Withdrawal from Construction鈥�, in Habitat International, Vol.12, n.3

Fiori, J., (2013) "Informal City: Design as Political Engagement", in Verebes, T. (Ede) Master-Planning the Adaptable City, Routledge