No. 13 (2010): Rehabilitation of peripheral neighbourhoods: Debates and challenges

Since the 1950s and, above all, and especially in Spain, since the sixties and seventies, the European cities have witnessed the construction of a substantial part of what today constitutes their continuous urban periphery. In general, in contrast with the more recent surges, these peripheries were nurtured mainly by social housing (on the term’s broadest sense) built most of the time under the shape of collective building typologies and, often,  as open urban morphologies (sets of blocks and towers) unequally equipped with urban equipment that, in many countries, have resulted on the creation of a characteristic look (and, at times, stigmatic) of these peripheries.