UNSETTLEMENTS: “Real” Estates Elsewhere in Europe

Estates are being torn down, renovated, relocated, and built anew. They are both the harbingers of dangerous futures and the embodiment of the right to affordable housing. As a societal gyroscope desperately in need of calibration, the estate offers a reading of the city’s acute predicaments, which is often accurate in terms of the registers of social life that it engages but always off in terms of its measurements. In cities across Europe, estates have become repositories of inhabitants that social orders think they know all too well, and thus need to house in particular ways, and, conversely, those who they simply can’t “process” or “integrate” and thus need to be put somewhere. 

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Nadya Rouizem Labied (AHTTEP/AUSser) « Unit 3 of Daoudiate in Marrakech », Unsettlements: “Real” Estates Elsewhere in Europe

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