This paper analyses the dynamic geographies of housing policies and the mobility of instruments, programs and paradigms of housing policies in European cities. In particular, the paper is interested the spatial dimension of urban housing policies from two perspectives: First, the paper analyses the development of urban housing policies as a socio-spatial process of policy learning between cities and other actors. This builds on the presumption that policy circulation and external policy models influence urban housing policies. Meanwhile, urban housing policies are often restricted by place-specific requirements, local and national building codes, regulations and zoning. Second, the project defines policy-making as a process of translation of political concepts into material and spatial practices, which are expressed in the built environment. Based on the explorative study of Freiburg, Germany, and Bordeaux, France, the paper furthers existing methodologies and epistemologies for a relational comparison which analyses the linkages between verbal, visual and material forms of housing policy instruments.
Mots clés : Housing policies|policy mobility|relational comparison|materiality|spatial practices
A105007CF