Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration: Beyond Participation in Large-scale Social Housing Estates (The Urban Book Series)

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1 Introduction: Framing Living Labs in Large-Scale Social Housing Estates in Europe
	1.1 Why Opt for a Living Lab Approach in Large-Scale Social Housing Estates?
	1.2 The Context of This Book
	1.3 The Meaning and Potential of Living Labs in Social Housing Estates
		1.3.1 Inhabitants Versus Institutions: Creating Spaces for Micro-interaction
		1.3.2 Social Versus Technical Disciplines and Departments: Bridging Approaches, Cultures, and Practices
		1.3.3 Outside Versus Inside Views: Bringing Together Local Conceptions of and External Competency in Space
	1.4 The Book
	1.5 Conclusion
	References
Part I A Critical Overview on Urban Living Labs in Large-Scale Social Housing Estates
2 Beyond a Buzzword: Situated Participation Through Socially Oriented Urban Living Labs
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Which Participation and Why?
	2.3 Three Key Perspectives on Democracy in Participatory Planning
	2.4 Participation as a Process of Enabling? A Possible Role for Living Labs
	2.5 Socially Oriented Urban Living Labs. Reflecting on Urban and Social Connotation
	2.6 Situating and Permanence: Embodied and Rooted Socially Oriented Urban Living Labs
	2.7 Conclusions
	References
3 Governing with Urban Living Labs
	3.1 On the Way to Experimentation and Innovation
	3.2 Living Labs and Tactical Urbanism
	3.3 Governing with Urban Living Labs
	3.4 Gramsci and the ULLs
	References
4 Urban Living Labs: Insights for Institutionally Promoted Urban Policies
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 The Interpretative Dimensions of Analysis Examined
	4.3 The Experiences Examined
	4.4 Points of Attention for the Adoption by Public Institutions of an Urban Living Lab Approach
		4.4.1 Participation and Role of Actors
		4.4.2 Learning Process
		4.4.3 Siting
		4.4.4 Policy Integration
		4.4.5 Actors’ Collaboration
		4.4.6 Time Factor
		4.4.7 Change and Legacies
	4.5 Conclusion: Promoting Urban Living Lab Experiences in Large-Scale Social Housing Neighbourhoods by an Institutional Lever
	References
5 Adapting the Living Lab Methodology: The Prefix ‘Co’ as an Empowerment Tool for Urban Regeneration in Large-Scale Social-Housing Estates
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Fostering Capabilities as a Device for Urban Regeneration
	5.3 Urban Living Lab: An Everyday Cultural and Plural Spatial Approach
	5.4 Frugality as a Tool for Participatory Urban Regeneration: The Case of the SoHoLab Pilot Projects
	5.5 Adapting the Living Lab Methodology: The Prefix ‘Co’ as an Empowerment Tool
	5.6 Conclusions
	References
Part II Positioning Research(ers) in Large-Scale Social Housing Estates
6 Beyond the Presence: Dwelling with People and with Their Places
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 In the Beginning, Living Together and Figures of Immersion
	6.3 Malinowski’s Tent
	6.4 Which ‘Immersion’?
	6.5 Conclusion
	References
7 1,460 Days of Love and Hate: An Ethnographic Account of a Layered Job
	7.1 Introduction: Just a Usual Day of Work
	7.2 A Multilayered Job
	7.3 Dealing with Frustrations
	7.4 Conclusions
	References
8 The Inside and Outside of High-Rise Social Housing: The Broken Institution
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Urban Narratives and Symbolic Violence
	8.3 Erving Goffman and Informal Order
	8.4 Then What is This All About?
	8.5 Findings
		8.5.1 The Loss of Façade
		8.5.2 The Informal Order
		8.5.3 A Morbid Atmosphere
		8.5.4 Assistance of Organizations from the Outside World
		8.5.5 Lost in Translation
		8.5.6 Pride, Knowledge, and Agency
	8.6 Discussion
	8.7 Conclusion
	References
9 From a Community of Practice to a Community of Planning: The Case of the Sansheroes Network in the San Siro Neighbourhood in Milan
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Mapping San Siro as a Multisource Observatory
	9.3 Towards a Competent and Structured Local Network
		9.3.1 Getting to Know San Siro Together (November 2016–December 2017)
		9.3.2 Sharing the Path with the Neighbourhood (January 2018–June 2018)
		9.3.3 Designing Together (June 2018–December 2018)
		9.3.4 Involving the City (January 2019–February 2019)
		9.3.5 Dialogue with Institutions and Consolidating a Planning Vision (March 2019–February 2020)
	9.4 From a Community of Practice to a Community of Planning
	References
Part III Approaching Space in Large–Scale Social Housing Estates
10 Marginalization Through Mobility and Porosity: How Social Housing Dwellers See and Live the City
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 The Distribution of Services, Facilities, Amenities, and Open Public Spaces Among Different Agents of the City
	10.3 Motility, Accessibility, and Porosity: Forms and Fluxes Shaping Social Relations
	10.4 Mobility, Porosity, and the Right to the City
	10.5 Towards a More Mobile, Accessible, and Porous City for All: Operationalizing Complementary and Somewhat Overlapping Concepts
	10.6 San Siro (Milan) Citadins: How They See and Live the City
	References
11 Peterbos: Living in the Park, Inhabiting the City
	11.1 Introduction
	11.2 The Misery of the World/Space for Manoeuvre
	11.3 Disclosing the Ground
	11.4 Reinterpreting the Modern Ground
		11.4.1 Brussels’ Transformation in the 1960s
		11.4.2 A Long Time Span
	11.5 Inside–Outside
	11.6 Setting the Scene for the Ecological Transition
		11.6.1 Resizing Car Parks and De-Sealing
		11.6.2 A Climatic Body
		11.6.3 Maintaining the Landscape of Ecological Transition
	11.7 Mixité: Emancipation and Initiatives
	11.8 A Provisional Conclusion: The Stone Guest
	References
12 Participation and the Architect: Creative Partnership or Communication Breakdown?
	12.1 Introduction
	12.2 A Resolutely Plural Approach to Collecting Opinions: An Ethnographic Method
		12.2.1 Plan
	12.3 Spaces Open to All, and no Longer Dominated by Men
		12.3.1 Social Diversity: An Objective Achieved More Through Public Spaces Than Housing
	12.4 Ornamental Principles Out of Tune with the Lived Environment They Are Intended to Enhance
		12.4.1 Has the Original Layout of Major Estates Lasted Better Than today’s Fragmented Refurbishment Projects?
		12.4.2 Grey Areas: Spaces Which Are Neither Public nor Private, Promoting Insular Practices
		12.4.3 Other Forms of Interaction Do Occur, but in Marginal, Liminal, or In-Between Spaces
	12.5 Conclusion: Taking a Bolder Approach to Interdisciplinarity and Breaking Down Barriers Between Professions
	References
13 Confusing the Spatial with the Social: Can Ethnography Offer a Way Out?
	13.1 Introduction: The Social Effects of Urban Regeneration
	13.2 An Ethnography of the Ground Floors in Peterbos
	13.3 The Ground floor’s Place in the Regeneration Discourse
	13.4 The Neighbourhood Facilities: At the Nexus Between a Collective Mental Geography and Individualities
		13.4.1 The Grocery Shop of Emine
		13.4.2 Facilities as Points of Reference
		13.4.3 Facilities as Chameleons
		13.4.4 Facilities as Spaces of Encounter and Coexistence
	13.5 A Potential Role for Ethnography in Offering a More Subtle Social-Spatial Reading?
	References