What’s Next for Mom and Dad’s House? Vol. 1 Essays on the Single-Family Housing Type and Its Future

While interest in reuse and circularity is growing, little attention has been paid to redesigning the extensive residential territories made up of single-family houses built in the second half of the twentieth century in many Western countries. Yet changing demographics, socio-economic transformations, shifts in housing preferences, and the attractiveness of the city as a productive space have exposed the financial, material, and cultural crisis facing these settlements. In light of such trends and given the sheer size of the phenomenon, retrofitting the single-family housing stock can be regarded as one of the most urgent yet unresolved issues in architecture and urban design today. This book explores the transformative potential of single-family housing across diverse geographic contexts, bringing together insights from a range of emerging and established scholars from the US, Europe, and Australia.