Discussion: Housing and sustainability - demolition or refurbishment?

摘要

This discussion presents the Israeli point of view regarding housing demolition or refurbishment in deprived neighbourhoods. The author first supports the arguments presented by Power (2010) and then introduces other perspectives beside reducing energy and carbon emission. The Israeli Project Renewal (PR) began in 1978. It comprises 104 sites, some of which are developing towns, neighbourhoods in inner cities or in big metropolitan cities. All together a population of 1-3 million inhabitants (out of 7-6 million) lives in 260 000 household units.