Housing and Ways of Inhabiting

Objectives


This course aims to acquire knowledge about housing in the following dimensions: public policy, real estate market, ways of inhabiting and residential architecture. The contents articulate a theoretical and an empirical reflection focused on the exploration of the national reality, with particular focus on Lisbon and its metropolis, not neglecting the required international framework. The approach to be developed should combine a historical perspective with the exploration of issues that mark the current housing situation, one of the central themes of contemporary public debate.
1. To analyze the housing policies implemented in Portugal and other countries, focusing on social housing and renting;

2. To enable students to understand the cultural and sociological dimensions of the built environment through the exploration of, the one hand, the relations between the transformation of residential architecture and ways of living, and, on the other hand, the transformations of Portuguese society.

3. To provide students with the needed tools to understand the transformations of the contemporary real estate market and the new housing issues.

General characterization

Code

723000009

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Gonçalo Manuel Ferreira dos Santos Antunes

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

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Complementar (máx. 50 títulos)
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Teaching method

The contact hours are structured in sessions based on the exposition of the different themes supported in diverse contents, namely audio-visual. There are also occasional sessions with guests focusing on specific cases / themes. The debate on the topics taught should accompany the expository moments. In addition, UC teachers will organize a study visit whose subject and course will be announced at the beginning of the respective semester.

Evaluation method

Evaluation Methodologies - Attendance and participation in debates (15%), Book chapter or journal article review (30%), Group work with oral presentation(55%)

Subject matter

A. The development of housing policies at the national and international levels:
1. First ideas about social housing and rent policies;
2. Repercussions of the Great War on housing policies;
3. Models applied during authoritarian regimes.
4. The changes after World War II;
5. Housing policies at the end of the 20th century;
6. Housing policies in a globalized world.

B. Residential Architectures and Ways of Inhabiting
1. Residential Architectures and Ideologies
1.1 Estado Novo: "Português Suave", Economic and demountable Houses
1.2 Modern Movement: mass housing
1.3 Postmodern Models: Advertising Narratives
2. Ways of Inhabiting: from concept to social diversity
2.1 Emigrants and “Illegal”
2.2 To inhabit a Pritzker: Siza Vieira
2.4. New Middle Classes: Lofts and Minimal Houses

C. Real Estate Market in the 21st Century
1. Financialization and Internationalization of Housing Markets
2. The current housing problem
3. Political resurgence of housing

Programs

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