High-rise Housing in Europe - Current Trends and Future Prospects

High-rise housing became prominent in Europe following the Second World War. Turkington (comparative housing research, De Montfort U., UK) et al. bring together 18 chapters on housing originating in the 1960s in 15 countries--Spain, France, Britain, Slovakia, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands--their current status, market conditions, and future. Housing in these countries is compared in terms of buildings, characteristics, the demographics of inhabitants, and urban and suburban locations, and neighborhoods, with attention to aspects of privatization, welfare, ideology, class, and shortages.