From Conflict Conflict From Edited by Edited Housing: Critical Futures Series Editor: Graham Cairns From Conflict Graham Cairns, Georgios Artopoulos Cairns, Georgios Graham Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena. Adopting this viewpoint, From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing maps to InclusIon the current terrain of political thinking, ethical conversations and community activism that complements the current discourse on new opportunities to access housing. Its carefully selected case studies cover many geographical contexts, including the UK, the US, Brazil, in Housing Australia, Asia and Europe. to Inclus to Importantly, the volume presents the views of stakeholders that are typically left unaccounted for in the process of housing development, and presents them with an interdisciplinary Interaction of audience of sociologists, planners and architects in mind. Each chapter offers new interpretations of real-world problems, local community initiatives and successful housing Communities, Residents projects, and together construct a critique on recent governmental and planning policies and globally. Through these studies, the reader will encounter a narrative that encompasses issues and Activists of equality for housing, the biopolitics of dwelling and its associated activism, planning Day Kirsten I initiatives for social sustainability, and the cohabitation of the urban terrain. on in Housing Graham Cairns is an academic and author in the field of architecture. He is the director of the academic research organisation AMPS, and Executive Editor of its associated journal Architecture_MPS. Georgios Artopoulos is Assistant Professor at the Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, architectural books, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Kirsten Day is a registered architect, lecturer (Interior Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology) and researcher (Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology). Edited by Cover image: Night photograph of Chamberlin, Graham Cairns, Georgios Artopoulos Powell and Bon’s Golden Lane Estate in London. © Georgios Artopoulos and Kirsten Day Cover design: www.ironicitalics.com Free open access versions available from www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press £40.00 From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing HOUSING: CRITICAL FUTURES Series Editor graham cairns Housing: Critical Futures is an innovative book series that offers a plat- form for leading international academics to debate housing and related issues. While the books explore a range of geographically specific con- cerns, together they investigate the challenges of providing affordable and sustainable housing in a global context. Graham Cairns is an academic and author in the field of architecture. He is the director of the academic research organisation AMPS, and Executive Editor of its associated journal Architecture_MPS. From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing Interaction of Communities, Residents and Activists Edited by Graham Cairns, Georgios Artopoulos and Kirsten Day First published in 2017 by UCL Press University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Available to download free: www.ucl.ac.uk/ ucl- press Text © Contributors, 2017 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in List of figures, 2017 The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. This book is published under a Creative Common 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Graham Cairns, Georgios Artopoulos and Kirsten Day (eds), From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing. London, UCL Press, 2017. https://doi.org/ 10.14324/ 111.9781787350335 Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http:// creativecommons.org/ licenses/ ISBN: 978– 1– 78735– 035– 9 (Hbk.) ISBN: 978– 1– 78735– 034– 2 (Pbk.) ISBN: 978– 1– 78735– 033– 5 (PDF) ISBN: 978– 1– 78735– 032– 8 (epub) ISBN: 978– 1– 78735– 031– 1 (mobi) ISBN: 978– 1– 78735– 030– 4 (html) DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/ 111.9781787350335 Contents Figures vii Tables x Contributors xi Introduction 1 Graham Cairns Editorial commentary: on the architecture of housing commons 6 Georgios Artopoulos Section 1 Socially engaged practices of housing and contested environments (participatory practices and negotiation policies/ sharing and relation with place) 1. Occupied city: Hotel Cambridge and central São Paulo between urban decay and resurrection 23 Jeroen Stevens 2. Conflict sites in a time of crisis: negotiating a space and place for Gypsies and Travellers 40 Jo Richardson 3. Aceh post- tsunami housing reconstruction: a critical analysis of approaches, designs and socio- cultural implications 56 Yenny Rahmayati Section 2 Spatial politics of housing (affordable housing, self- build, re- building and the economics/ policies of housing) 4. Postproduced: how adaptive redesign and participatory approaches can transform ageing housing 71 Sandra Karina Löschke and Hazel Easthope v 5. Integrated approaches and interventions for the regeneration of abandoned towns in southern Italy 87 May East 6. The role of community- driven finance in bridging formal and informal practices in housing: insights from Vinh, Vietnam 103 Johanna Brugman 7. Clearing stock of the invisible: effects of cosmopolitan power on the supply of affordable housing 117 Kane Pham Section 3 Non- standard practices of housing (art practice and alternative forms of engagement with housing) 8. Art does matter: creating interventions in our thinking about housing 135 Keely Macarow 9. Uncanny home: considering race and American housing policy in Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead 149 Lee Azus 10. The real ‘housos’: reclaiming identity and place 167 Michael Darcy and Dallas Rogers 11. Sharing the domestic through ‘residential performance’ 180 Jonathan Orlek 12. Contesting ‘dilapidated dwelling’ 199 Matthew Thompson Notes 227 References 251 Index 269 vi CONTENTS Figures Figure 0.1 Green corridor at Crescent House residential block, Golden Lane Estate, Barbican, London, UK. Author’s image 12 Figure 0.2 Staircase landing and transitional spaces at Crescent House residential block, Golden Lane Estate, Barbican, London, UK. Author’s image 13 Figure 0.3 The open- air, multi- storey, atria of the Crescent House residential block, Golden Lane Estate, Barbican, London, UK. Author’s image 14 Figure 1.1 Hotel Cambridge, facing Avenida Nove de Julho. Author’s image 24 Figure 1.2 Central São Paulo’s hodgepodge of morphologies, typologies and infrastructures. Author’s image 28 Figure 1.3 ‘Hotel Cambridge threatened, a landmark of the city’. O Estado de S. Paulo 30 Figure 1.4 Hotel Cambridge, after its occupation by MSTC- FLM. November 2012, archives MSTC- FLM 34 Figure 1.5 Mutirão, and the piecemeal architectural reclaim of the derelict hotel. November 2012, Archives MSTC- FLM 35 Figure 1.6 Weekly occupation ‘assembleia’, meeting of inhabitants and co- ordination. Author’s image 37 Figure 3.1 Historical transformation of housing typology. 63 Figure 4.1 Toronto residential tower redevelopment proposal. Image: Graeme Stewart, ERA Architects, courtesy of Cityscope. (Citiscope is a nonprofit news outlet that covers innovations in cities around the world. Read more at Citiscope.org) 82 Figure 5.1 Ghost towns holding the tension between preserving the past and planning the future. Author’s image 89 vii Figure 5.2 Built in local stone and lime over 700 years, Torri Superiore presents a unique urban layout with several five- storey buildings. Author’s image 94 Figure 5.3 Architectural interventions and their effects on the character of the historic fabric. Author’s image 99 Figure 6.1 Operation of Vinh’s community development fund (CDF). Author’s image 111 Figure 7.1 Barangaroo and the adjacent suburbs of Millers Point and The Rocks holding significant stock of affordable housing in the Sydney CBD. Author’s image adapted from Google Maps and atlas.id data 119 Figure 7.2 Age comparisons: age groups as a percentage of total. Cred Community Planning, Social Impact Assessment of the Potential Social Impacts on the Existing Millers Point Community, and the Broader Social Housing System (2013) 126 Figure 8.1 Untitled Collective, 2014, Open for Inspection, West Space Gallery, Melbourne, mixed- media installation. Photo: Christo Crocker 143 Figure 9.1 The Mobile Homestead looking east from Woodward Avenue. MOCAD at left. Author’s image 151 Figure 9.2 The Mobile Homestead looking north- east from Canfield Street. Author’s image 151 Figure 9.3 Cape Cod Revival style illustration in Principles of Planning Small Houses, 1940 edition, page 2. Federal Housing Administration (Washington, DC) 160 Figure 9.4 ‘Basic Plan, One- Story, Two- Bedrooms’, from Principles of Planning Small Houses, 1940 edition, page 16. Federal Housing Administration (Washington, DC) 161 Figure 9.5 The Kelley Family House (left), Northlawn Subdivsion, Westland, Michigan. Author’s image 163 Figure 11.1 Building OPERA 1 partitions using plywood reclaimed