Post-war mass housing: From utopian ideas to dystopian realities: A comparative case study of the demolished Robin Hood Gardens vs. the thriving Park Hill

This thesis presents a comparative case study of two exemplary for the post-war period projects - Robin Hood Gardens and Park Hill. Although a lot of research already exists on post-war mass housing and on the two projects individually, they have rarely been analyzed in comparison to each other, despite sharing similar characteristics. By...

From Streets-in-the-Sky to a Castle in the Air: Development and Decline of a Concept (1952-1980s)

After World War II, various architectural theories were proposed for urban development in order to tackle the societal issues and housing issues arising from the post-war trauma. ‘Streets-in-the-sky’, proposed by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson in 1952, was one of the concepts that emerged in the post-war era and advocated the...