This book highlights innovative planning strategies for liveability and wellbeing of communities supported by lessons from notable international case studies, addressing varied issues including accommodating elderly populations, designing walkable c...Loe edasi...
Spatial Justice: The Basics offers a concise and accessible introduction to spatial justice as both a theoretical framework and a practical agenda for urban transformation. It examines how urban space is produced, contested, and governed, and how it...Loe edasi...
New York City: The Basics offers an accessible look at the dynamic and diverse hub of New York City. Written in a clear, engaging style, the book discusses geographic, historic, demographic, socioeconomic, housing, and governmental aspects in the Bi...Loe edasi...
This book explores how privately owned public spaces (POPS) are presented today as desirable additions to urban redevelopment projects, regardless of their inherently divisive social impact, usually delivered through, amongst other factors, carefull...Loe edasi...
The book Modelling Social Housing delves into the intricate relationship between everyday social life and the architectural landscapes of social housing across European cities....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1978, this study critically appraises the nature, extent and economic rationale for government intervention in the private and public housing sectors, and explores the effects of policies through fiscal and social instruments...Loe edasi...
A continual problem in modern societies is how housing of a good standard can be provided for all those who need it. Some countries, and some local areas within any one country, have clearly succeeded better than others. Originally published in 1985...Loe edasi...
First published in 1945, this book is a discussion of housing policy between 1919 and 1939. During these years the local authorities built over a million houses. This was perhaps the outstanding peace time experiment in state intervention in the pro...Loe edasi...
First published in 1986, for the second edition of this text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 18151985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1995, this innovative collection provides a multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on the links between housing, personal wealth and the family in contemporary society. The contributions include analyses from the US...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1985, this book provided a broad review of the range of systems of housing finance used throughout the developed and developing world at the time. It surveys the development of housing finance and the ways in which individual...Loe edasi...
First published in 1982, this book represents an attempt by scholars from a number of disciplines to bring a common social-psychological perspective to bear on the study of the house and its relation to the self and the nature of the social order. I...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1976, this book sets out, by careful examination of the complexities of the British housing system, to improve understanding and to discuss the implications for policy in the differing roles played by central and local govern...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1987, public rented housing in Britain had undergone many changes in the decade before, which had been accelerated by the policies of the Conservative government since 1979. The book surveys the current state of public housin...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1986 and written by two leading authorities on the subject, this book tackles the problems of housing, homelessness, and women in the family, from a feminist perspective. It explores how housing helps to reproduce womens role...Loe edasi...
First published in 1993, this book filled a gap in the literature on housing in the developing world. For many years, self-help settlement and the owner-occupier had commanded the attention of governments and researchers, leaving huge numbers of ten...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1981, in this controversial study Dr Kemeny aims to show that owner-occupation is not an inherently superior form of housing tenure to renting. In conclusion he argues that English-speaking countries should abandon their one-...Loe edasi...
First published in 1935, the original blurb reads: ... All slums will definitely be cleared away, never to recur in future generations. ... In eighty years Great Britain will be demolished and rebuilt, except historical and other special public buil...Loe edasi...
First published in 1994, this book explores the birth, growth and decline of public housing in Britain, weighing up its merits and weaknesses. It traces the development of a state housing policy and looks closely at council housing as a lived experi...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1990, this title asks, what has been the role of the state vis-à-vis housing policy in developing countries over the last few years? This book attempts an analysis of comparative housing policy the study of how, why, and to...Loe edasi...
