“Mass” Housing in the Social and the Post-Social Worlds: Reading Hannah Arendt's "Mass Society"

TY - JOUR

T1 - “Mass” Housing in the Social and the Post-Social Worlds

T2 - Reading Hannah Arendt's "Mass Society"

AU - Stoane, Andy

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - In The Human Condition (1958), Hannah Arendt predicated her thesis on societal introspection on what she called “mass society”–a population which had rapidly grown, urbanized and atomized, bringing new imperatives for humans to live together in vast numbers and with closer proximities. Throughout, Arendt discusses how shifting boundaries of public and private define our cities and our lives. As her mass society of three billion now approaches eight billion, how has the relationship between public and private–city and household–played out in the staggering population growth of the sixty years since her book? This article will explore how these six decades since the publication of The Human Condition have seen fundamental transformations in the way we understand what we now call housing, its relationship with the city, and its relationship with collective life.

AB - In The Human Condition (1958), Hannah Arendt predicated her thesis on societal introspection on what she called “mass society”–a population which had rapidly grown, urbanized and atomized, bringing new imperatives for humans to live together in vast numbers and with closer proximities. Throughout, Arendt discusses how shifting boundaries of public and private define our cities and our lives. As her mass society of three billion now approaches eight billion, how has the relationship between public and private–city and household–played out in the staggering population growth of the sixty years since her book? This article will explore how these six decades since the publication of The Human Condition have seen fundamental transformations in the way we understand what we now call housing, its relationship with the city, and its relationship with collective life.

KW - Arendt

KW - Barbican

KW - Unité d’Habitation

KW - housing

KW - mass society

KW - population growth

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85092766268

U2 - 10.1080/20507828.2020.1792151

DO - 10.1080/20507828.2020.1792151

M3 - Article

SN - 2050-7828

VL - 8

SP - 513

EP - 528

JO - Architecture and Culture

JF - Architecture and Culture

IS - 3-4

ER -