Barbara Engel (Prof. Dr.) is a German architect and urban planner. She was awarded her PhD in 2004 and worked as a visiting professor at Kent State University in the US in 2007/2008. From 2008-2013 she was head of the department for the inner city at the City Planning Office in Dresden. Since 2013 she has been a professor of international urbanism at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Barbara Engel is a member of Design Committee in Halle and Nuremberg and of the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (DASL).
Nikolas Rogge is a German architect whose work focuses on sustainable, human-centered design that pays homage to the specificity of place. His research spans across several disciplines with urbanism at their center. By looking at the genesis and transformation of open spaces within different cultural and planning contexts he investigates the impact of changing ideals on the urban form and living environments. He has led architecture and urban design projects in Germany, France, the U.S., and Indonesia. He is an assistant professor of international urbanism at the Karlsruhe Technical Institute (KIT), and holds a Diplom in architecture from Dresden University.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
1. The Future of Modernist Housing 11
Introduction 19
Introduction 21
2. Understanding the Origin, Trajectories of Change, and Future Prospects for Large Housing Estates in Europe 25
3. Introduction to the System of Soviet Mass Housing. Type Design, Typification and Typology 49
4. Maintaining Mass Housing: Methodology of Research and Comparative Perspective 75
5. Non-Capital Renovation—Urban Tissue Morphotypes and Evaluation of Potential of Intensive Development: Saint Petersburg as Case Study 91
Introduction 119
6. Large Housing Estates: A Place to Call "Home" 121
7. Images and Identities of the Post-Socialist Housing Estates in Ukraine vs. Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities 141
8. Perceptions and Constructed Marginality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Large Housing Estates: The Case of Saint Petersburg, Russia 157
9. Collective Housing Complexes of Socialist Yugoslavia: The Development of Living Standards and the Strengthening of Communities 169
10. Challenge of Demographic Change — Recognizing General and Site-Specific Aspects in Large Housing Estates 185
Introduction 199
11. Innovation in Housing: Decarbonization in Latvia 201
12. Property Relationships and Post-Soviet Urban Planning: Three Critical Cases 217
13. Strategies for Complex Transformation in Vilnius 233
14. Reimagining Housing Estates and the Nexus of Planning and Policy 243
Introduction 261
15. Irkutsk Akademgorodok District—Principles for the Development of Spatial Qualities 263
16. The Future of the New Past: Changes in Public Spaces in the Novo-melnikovo District in Irkutsk 281
17. The Present State and Perspectives of Development of Cheryomushki in Krasnoyarsk 297
18. Development of Mass Housing Districts in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Cheryomushki and Tairovo in Odessa 305
Contributors 323