Grounds for a new regulation on housing
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https://doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2025.225.10Keywords:
Decent housing, Urban planning, Adaptability, Housing sustainability, Collective space, Social housing, Sheltered housing, Circular economy, Intermediate spaces, Housing cooperatives, Minimum housing, HabitabilityAbstract
A critique of the necessary renewal of urban planning and housing regulation, especially social housing. Urban planning is at the heart of decision-making, which is followed by management, development and construction. Housing production is analysed from three perspectives: size, adaptability and sustainability, emphasising living space beyond minimum surface area, integrating the evolution of our habitat over time and incorporating sustainability as an essential factor in new housing production. Finally, new regulatory proposals are put forward, prioritising the quality of architectural and collective space, its comfort, the efficient use of land and the incorporation of alternative models such as cooperative housing and ‘intermediate housing’. The text calls for a more incisive regulatory framework that is better adapted to the current challenges facing housing and the contemporary city.
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