Housing and Communities

The author reviews how housing has influenced health throughout the past hundred and fifty years, discussing in detail current issues concerning housing and health, and describes attempts at housing groups whose health is at risk..

The author reviews how housing has influenced health throughout the past hundred and fifty years, discussing in detail current issues concerning housing and health, and describes attempts at housing groups whose health is at risk..

Published in 1997. The aim of this book is to explore urban modelling traditions, identify key limitations and contributions and to develop a more general model within a discrete choice framework. The scope of the effort is on household choices regarding residential location, workplace and housing t..

Explanation and analysis of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe, providing new evidence and insights into links between housing conditions and the health of inhabitants. ..

The aim of this book is to provide a benchmark statement of key issues on housing and to emphasise the need to embed our understanding of housing issues in an international and multidisciplinary setting...

The chapters in this book each consider a specific social category, such as class, gender, or disability, and evaluate the experience and understanding of housing and social policy under these categories...

Integrates housing studies with the broad base of social science - an often controversial book which theorises housing in relation to political science and sociology and provides a critique of current research...

A comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in Japan...

The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book. Housing and the New Welfare State shows that housing is becoming critical to asset-based welfare not only in Western Europe but also in the six East Asian housing systems that are a maj..

Outlining how the current crisis in housing markets has arisen, this sharp analysis considers the considers the causes of house price bubbles and the reason for the collapse in markets worldwide. It explains the ways in which future booms and busts can be mitigated and how the lessons of this latest..

Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, patterns of change to the former communist nations of Europe are now discernible in a way that was impossible to see in the initial years. This insightful book focuses on the case of changes in housing based on evidence collected from across the Central ..

Housing Design Quality directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development...