Housing, Planning and Design Series

Planning, Risk and Property Development

Urban regeneration in England, France and the Netherlands

By Nikos Karadimitriou, Claudio de Magalhães, Roelof Verhage

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in Europe’s cities with the aim of delivering private, merit and public goods. This book explores the relationships, objectives and strategies of the actors engaging in these...

Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge

International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness

Edited by Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides...

Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

Politics, Planning and Homes in a World City

By Duncan Bowie

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

This is an insightful study of spatial planning and housing strategy in London, focusing on the period 2000-2008 and the Mayoralty of Ken Livingstone. Duncan Bowie presents a detailed analysis of the development of Livingstone’s policies and their consequences. Examining the theory and practice of...

Published February 9th 2010 by Routledge

Housing Market Renewal and Social Class

By Chris Allen

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

Housing market renewal is one of the most controversial urban policy programmes of recent years. Housing Market Renewal and Social Class critically examines the rationale for housing market renewal: to develop 'high value' housing markets in place of the so-called 'failing markets' of low-cost...

Published October 14th 2007 by Routledge

Decent Homes for All

Planning's Evolving Role in Housing Provision

By Nick Gallent, Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

Are you concerned about the state of current housing provision? Worried about further decline in the years ahead? Decent Homes for All addresses fundamental questions about the current housing crisis; examining its history and evolution. The first text on the housing-planning interface, it explores...

Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge

Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World

By Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to ‘...

Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge

Private Dwelling

Contemplating the Use of Housing

By Peter King

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and allows us to be intimate with those we are close to. This book considers the nature of privacy but also how we choose to share our dwelling. The book discusses the manner in which we talk about our housing,...

Published August 18th 2004 by Routledge

Housing Development

Theory, Process and Practice

Edited by Ron Blake, Andrew Golland

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

Previously knowledge about housing has been available only from widely disparate sources focused on the traditional disciplines of construction, design, building control, planning, economics, sociology and psychology, leaving scope for a fresh holistic overview of how the separate inputs into the...

Published November 5th 2003 by Routledge

Housing in the European Countryside

Rural Pressure and Policy in Western Europe

Edited by Nick Gallent, Mark Shucksmith, Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

Housing in the European Countryside provides an overview of the housing pressures and policy challenges facing Europe, while highlighting critical differences. By drawing on contemporary research work of leading authors in the fields of housing studies, rural geography and planning, the book ...

Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge