The Roofless Truth: Planning and Architecture for Homelessness - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3038604755 ISBN 13: 9783038604754

Verlag: Park Books, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Homelessness is one of the most pressing social challenges of our time, and is closely linked to issues of urban design and architecture. Homeless people are part of urban society and depend on accessible public spaces and urban infrastructure. Yet, in cities around the world, local governments use policies and urban planning to ward off street people, aiming at making them invisible in the cityscape and deliberately impeding certain forms of stay. Urban design always reflects power structures―it can exclude or open up avenues for participation.

The Roofless Truth brings together contributions by international researchers and practitioners from the fields of architecture, urban development and design, sociology, ethnology, social work, and education. It offers academic analyses and essays, field reports, and student proposals for interventions in public space, and features award-winning projects and initiatives in Canada, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, and the US.

The book highlights how public spaces should be designed to offer protection, dignity, and opportunities for homeless people, and to facilitate encounters and interaction. The featured examples impressively demonstrate that even the smallest spatial decision can determine inclusion or exclusion. The Roofless Truth paints a multifaceted picture of planning and design as a social practice beyond representation and prestige.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Matthias Drilling lehrt und forscht als Professor an der Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften in der Schweiz und arbeitet seit vielen Jahren international zum Thema Obdachlosigkeit und Stadtentwicklung.

Fabian Neuhaus ist Associate Professor an der School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL) der University of Calgary in Kanada. Derzeit leitet er das NEXTCalgary Research Lab, das durch die Richard Parker Initiative unterstützt wird und als Plattform für Vordenken und öffentlichen Diskurs fungiert.

Matthias Drilling is a professor at Zurich University of Applied Sciences’ School of Social Work, Institute of Diversity and Social Integration. He taught as visiting professor at the University of Calgary’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape in 2024–25.

Fabian Neuhaus is an associate professor at the University of Calgary’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape, where he directs the NEXTCalgary Research Lab.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Park Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3038604755
• ISBN 13: 9783038604754
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Herausgeber: Drilling Prof. Dr. Matthias, Neuhaus Fabian
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