CfP: Sheltering the Displaced. Housing the ‘Other’ and the Making of the Post-war City. European Association for Urban History (EAUH) conference 2026
The decades following World War II saw major demographic shifts in Europe due to forced displacements, decolonization, labor migration, and rural-to-urban movement. These flows—sometimes encouraged by european states to support reconstruction and modernization—reshaped the social and spatial fabric of cities, generating urgent housing and infrastructure demands.