engleski

Regeneration of Housing Innovations: A Case of Housing Program for Young Academics in Zagreb

Conventional means and approaches for tackling housing problems, such as mass housing developed in Europe after World War II, proved outdated, ineffectual and counterproductive in times when austerity prevails as a policy in EU. In that sense, there exists a permanent demand for innovations. Housing innovations as social innovations in the field of housing are indispensable instruments of EU-promoted concept of integrated sustainable urban development. Yet, housing innovations have to be economically, socially, ecologically and politically sustainable themselves in order for them to serve their purpose(s). If any or a combination of housing innovations’ sustainability conditions is missing, regeneration is needed. Affordable housing programme for young academics from Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, as a housing innovation intended for meeting basic needs and enhancing academics’ quality of life, is presented as a good case for regeneration in this work-in-progress paper, since it has become unsustainable and requires policy measures for its regeneration.

housing, innovation, regeneration, sustainability, development, academics, Croatia, Zagreb

nije evidentirano