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Spatial Legacies of the Welfare State: Housing and Beyond

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2013

CRISTINA RENZONI
CRISTINA RENZONI*
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IUAV University of Venice, Dorsoduro 2206, 30123 Venezia, Italy; renzoni@iuav.it.
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Contemporary European History , Volume 22 , Issue 3: Recycling and Reuse in the Twentieth Century , August 2013 , pp. 537 - 546
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1 Beveridge, William, Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services (London: H.M.S.O., 1942), 170Google Scholar.

2 For an overview of the social policy research on the topic of welfare state, see Ferragina, Emanuele and Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin, ‘Welfare Regime Debate: Past, Present, Futures?’, Policy and Politics, 39, 4 (2011), 583–611CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Secchi, Bernardo, La città del XX secolo (Rome and Bari: Laterza, 2005)Google Scholar.

4 See for instance recent works by Munarin, Stefano and Chiara Tosi, Maria, ‘Welfare Space in Europe’, Urbanistica, 139 (2009), 88–112Google Scholar; Gosseye, Janina and Heynen, Hilde, ‘Designing the Belgian Welfare State 1950s to 1970s: Social Reform, Leisure and Ideological Adherence’, The Journal of Architecture, 15, 5 (2010), 557–85CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Lewi, Hanna and Nichols, David, eds, Community: Building Modern Australia (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2010)Google Scholar.

5 Fainstein, Susan, The Just City (New York: Cornell University Press, 2010)Google Scholar; Soja, Eduard, Seeking Spatial Justice (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Recently, the research team from the Politecnico di Milano published a monograph on the work carried out in Milan: Infussi, Francesco, ed., Dal recinto al territorio: Milano, esplorazioni nella città pubblica (Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2011)Google Scholar.

7 Di Biagi, Paola, The Public City: Social Housing and Redevelopment in Turin (Torino: Allemandi, 2008), 23Google Scholar. For the notion of the ‘città pubblica’ (‘public city’) see also Di Biagi, Paola, ed., La grande ricostruzione: Il piano Ina-Casa e l'Italia degli anni '50 (Roma: Donzelli, 2001).Google Scholar

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9 The Twentieth Century Society (C20), founded in 1979, aims at safeguarding ‘the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards. The Society's prime objectives are conservation, to protect the buildings and design that characterise the Twentieth Century in Britain, and education, to extend our knowledge and appreciation of them’. For the history and aims of the C20 see www.c20society.org.uk (accessed 19 April 2013).