Housing emerged as a subdiscipline of economics in 1970s Britain, during a time when policymakers and researchers were trying to draw expertise from various perspectives to tackle housing problems. This handbook provides a survey of the field, offering a reference and a springboard for further work pertaining to housing markets, approaches, context, and policy issues. Twenty-four contributions address such topics as residential mobility, neighborhoods, the neo-liberal legacy to housing research, social geographic interpretations, social policy approaches to housing research, people-environment studies, the economy and the environment, homelessness, subsidies, and ethnic residential segregation, among other topics. The three editors are affiliated as follows: David F. Clapham (Cardiff U., UK), William A.V. Clark (geography, UCLA), and Kenneth Gibb (U. of Glasgow, Scotland). Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This Handbook elucidates and critically appraises the key issues within housing studies from a multi-disciplinary framework. It looks at ideas from a retrospective approach, but also analyzes the future directions of research and theory in the area demonstrating how the study of housing can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences. The book comes with a comprehensive introductory chapter and individual chapter introductions. It is divided into four parts: markets; approaches; context; and policy. With an international team of contributors, the Handbook is a stimulating, wide-ranging read that will be a useful source and reference for academics and researchers in geography, urban studies, sociology, social policy, economics, and political science.
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