Resident Satisfaction in Post-WWII Housing Estates

Abstract

Large housing estates in Europe are seen by many people as unattractive places to live. From the outside they indeed might not seem nice areas with their high-rise blocks, the concrete, the seemingly lack of liveliness. Also when walking through large housing estates, it is probably not love at first sight between potential visitors and the estate. Often estates are characterised by groups of young people hanging around in streets and shopping centres, surrounded by unattractive green areas and, in some estates by demolition processes, which gives some large housing estates an abandoned look. Conflicts between neighbours and people in the neighbourhood may seriously affect the quality of life in the area. Graffiti, in car thefts and house burglaries, or problems associated with drugs may be a liability for many different types of inhabitants of large housing estates.KeywordsEthnic MinoritySocial CohesionGreen SpaceNeighbourhood CharacteristicEuropean CityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.