Housing + (The Imperatives of Designing Housing in Context)

This volume locates housing at the center of urban thinking today.  The short essays, case studies, and roundtable conversations featured throughout Housing+ position housing as inextricably linked to urbanity and the pursuit of more desirable standards of living for all.

Housing+ investigates how all facets of urbanity are implicated in the making of sustainably designed affordable housing. It draws on the experiences of 32 scholars, designers, and practicing professionals working across the fields of architecture, urban design, planning, and policymaking to situate the eponymous “+” as a harbinger of dialogue between scales, across space, and through time. Offered as a record of MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism’s third biennial conference, Housing+ offers exclusive insight into the projects that have defined the work of scholars and practitioners leading housing innovation across the fields of planning, policy, and urban and architectural design. The shorts essays, case studies, and roundtable conversations featured throughout the volume draw housing of out of isolation and positions it at the center of urban thinking today.

Its consolidation of generations of work into a single, authoritative volume is of particular interest to those working on housing at the intersections of fabrication, community and partnership building, typology design, infrastructure, urban planning, placemaking, and participatory design.