This article examines theories of human territoriality and their historical role in the demise of public housing in Western Europe and North America between the 1960s and the 1980s. The neglect and privatization of the public housing stock and the withdrawal of the state in direct provision in this period are often subsumed under the category of neoliberalism. This article unpacks this narrative by focusing on the intersection between architecture and social science. It argues that the neoliberalization of housing not only constitutes a transformation of housing economics, from public to private funding, or design, from highrise blocks in large estates to semidetached or detached individual dwellings; it also constitutes an epistemological turn, which revolves around the shift from “habitat” to “human territoriality.”

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人类领土和公共住房的衰落

本文考察了人类领土理论及其在 1960 年代至 1980 年代西欧和北美公共住房消亡中的历史作用。这一时期对公共住房存量的忽视和私有化以及国家直接提供的退出往往被归入新自由主义的范畴。本文通过关注建筑与社会科学之间的交叉点来解开这一叙述。它认为，住房的新自由主义化不仅构成了住房经济学的转变，从公共资金到私人资金或设计，从大庄园的高层建筑到半独立式或独立式个人住宅；它也构成了一个认识论转向，它围绕着从“栖息地”到“人类领土”的转变。