Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of the twentieth-century modern housing project and its social diagram, juxtaposed with case studies from the past and the present that suggest that we can live and work differently.

While the contributions are diverse in their theoretical approach and geographical situation, their juxtaposition yields transversal connections in the conception of the home and the city and highlights the diversity of architectural solutions in the formation of housing and its communities. The collection also reveals architecture's contribution to the construction of the self and communities, the individual and the collective-as both urban spatial entities and socio-political concepts.

Housing and the City provides essential reading for students, academics, and practitioners interested in the history, theory, or current design of housing. At a time when cities are witnessing new ways of working, changing social demographics, increased geographical mobility, and mass migrations, as well as the pervasive threat of the climate crisis-all trends exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic-Housing and the City presents a historical and theoretical reflection on the question: what does it mean to be at home in the city in the twenty-first century?

Katharina Borsi is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Nottingham. She teaches design and architectural and urban history and theory. Her research focuses on the intersection between housing, domesticity, and urbanism. She has lectured and published extensively on the history and theory of housing and urbanism in Berlin and elsewhere.

Nick Haynes is an architect and runs a Master's design studio at the University of Nottingham exploring the immanent strategic potential of architecture within the city. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham with his research titled "Primary Elements: Typological Innovation and Urban Performances".

Didem Ekici is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham. She has held fellowships from Wellcome Trust, DAAD, Wolfsonian-Florida International University, and University of Michigan institute for the Humanities. She is the co-editor of Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body and author of articles on modern architecture, health, the body, asceticism, and urban memory.

Jonathan Hale is an architect and Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment. He is Head of the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics research group. He has published extensively on architectural theory and criticism; phenomenology and the philosophy of technology; the relationship between architecture and the body; museums and architectural exhibitions.

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of the twentieth century modern housing project and its social diagram, juxtaposed with case studies from the past and the present that suggest that we can live and work differently.

While the contributions are diverse in their theoretical approach and geographical situation, their juxtaposition yields transversal connections in the conception of the home and the city and highlights the diversity of architectural solutions in the formation of housing and its communities. The collection of papers also yields architecture's contribution to the construction of the self and communities, the individual and the collective - as both urban spatial entities and socio-political concepts.

Housing and the City provides essential reading for students, academics and practitioners interested in the history, theory or current design of housing. At a time when cities are witnessing new ways of working, changing social demographics, increased geographical mobility and mass migrations, as well as the pervasive threat of the climate crisis - all trends exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic - Housing and the City presents a historical and theoretical reflection on the question: what does it mean to be at home in the city in the twenty-first century?

Introduction: Housing and the City: Architectural Experimentation and Social Diagrams
Katharina Borsi, Didem Ekici, Jonathan Hale, Nick Haynes

Part 1: The Modern Housing Project in an International Context

Introduction to Part 1: Didem Ekici and Jonathan Hale

1. Language logics: Housing in translation Irina Davidovici

2. Health, Tuberculosis, and the City: Strategies to Approach the Dwelling Hygiene of Berlin, 1882 - 1914 Eva Eylers

3. The concept of type in Hellerau Garden City Didem Ekici

4. The Logic of the Norm: LCC Urban Housing during the Interwar Period Christopher Metz, ETH, Zurich

Section 1.2 Modernism and Ideology

5. How Can Space Be Ideological? Communal housing projects in Vienna Angelika Schnell

6. From the cell to the territory: The 'Disurbanist' project of the OSA group Martino Tattara

7. Revolution Begins at Home: New Housing Typologies, and Collectivisation of Life in Post-WWII Tehran Hamed Khosravi

8. Kiryat Meir, the First Middle-Class Cooperative Housing Complex in Tel Aviv Sigal Davidi

Section 1.3. Housing and the City in the Welfare State

9. Type and the Collective Space of the Housing Project Nick Haynes and Katharina Borsi

10. Open Building and User Agency: Early and Contemporary Experiments in the Netherlands Íñigo Cornago Bonal and Dirk van den Heuvel

11. Public-private Partnerships and Medium-density Housing in North Melbourne, Australia: from Hotham Gardens, 1959 to Northside Communities, 2021. Catherine Townsend and Paul Walker

12. Housing Mid-century Irish Publics: Some Paradigms Gary A. Boyd and Brian Ward

Part 2: Collective Types and Urban Areas

Introduction Katharina Borsi and Nick Haynes

Section 2.1 Collective Inhabitations

13. Ahmedabad Pols and the Transindivdual Dorian Wiszniewski

14. Hidden commons: Hutong inversions Doreen Bernath

15. Resilient Structure, Collective Form: Residential and Studio Building at the former Berlin Flower Market (IBeB) Tim Heide and Katharina Borsi

16. Together! Potentials for cooperative housing and self-organisation Katharina Bayer and Nick Haynes

Section 2.2 Living and Working

17. Productive morphologies and intersecting voids Katharina Borsi

18. Open City / Closed city Frances Holliss and Claudia Dutson

19. The City within the Home: Otto Steidle's Genter Strasse Houses Florian Kossak

Index