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Edited by Martino Tattara & Federico Zanfi
Despite the increasing interest in reuse and circularity, little attention has been paid to the task of transforming the extensive residential territories made up of single-family houses built in the second half of the twentieth century in many Western countries. Yet changing demographics, socio-economic transformations, shifts in housing preferences linked to the awareness of the costs embedded in such models, and the attractiveness of the city as a productive space have exposed the financial, material, and cultural crisis facing these settlements. In light of such trends and given the sheer size of the phenomenon, retrofitting the single-family housing stock to make it more consistent with socio-economic changes can be regarded as one of the most urgent, unresolved issues in architecture and urban design today. The book investigates the potentials inherent in transforming of the single-family house in different geographical contexts by a group of emerging and established scholars from the US, Europe, and Australia.
