Orsina Simona Pierini is full professor of architecture and urban design at the department of architecture and urban studies, the Polytecnico di Milano, Italy. Carmen Espegel is an award-winning architect and professor at the School of Architecture, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. Dick van Gameren is professor of housing design and dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Mark Swenarton is emeritus professor of architecture at Liverpool University, UK.
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Foreword. Forays and Crossings in the European City: The Long History of the 'Short' Century:Tools for the Design of Contemporary Housing, by Orsina Simona Pierini. Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century European Housing Design, by Dick van Gameren. Liminal Spaces in Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture: A Place In Which to Learn How to be a Citizen, by Carmen Espegel. The Fall and Rise of the Street in Twentieth-Century Housing, by Mark Swenarton. 87 Case Studies. Acknowledgements.