Expert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal policy and practice in nine European countries. Shared concerns over energy conservation, social protection and inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of public and private sectors, form the basis of a proposed policy agenda for housing renewal across Europe.

Introduction ~ Christopher Watson and Richard Turkington;From physical improvement to holistic renewal: the Danish experience ~ Hedvig Vestergaard;Housing renewal in England ~ Christopher Watson and Richard Turkington;Making new from old in France: urban change through housing renewal in two Parisian districts ~ Claire Levy-Vroelant and Yankel Fijalkow;Housing and urban renewal in the Netherlands ~ Frank Wassenberg;Estonia: learning through 'societal experiment' ~ Katrin Paadam and Liis Ojamae;Housing and urban renewal: the case of Germany ~ Jurgen Friedrichs, Rolf Muller and Wendelin Strubelt;Housing renewal in Hungary: from socialist non-renovation through individual market actions to area-based public intervention ~ Ivan Tosics;From isolated programmes to an integrated approach: the case of La Barceloneta, Spain ~ Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Montse Simo-Solsona;From squatter upgrading to large scale renewal programmes: housing renewal in Turkey ~ Zeynep Gunay, T Kerem Koramaz and A Sule Ozuekren;Changing approaches to policy making in housing renewal ~ Tim Brown and Richard Turkington;Conclusions ~ Richard Turkington and Christopher Watson.