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The SAGE handbook of housing studies /

The SAGE handbook of housing studies / Housing studies edited by David F. Clapham, William A.V. Clark and Kenneth Gibb. - Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, 2012. - xvii, 505 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - SAGE Knowledge. .

IT Carlow ebook.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

SECTION ONE: HOUSING MARKETS -- Understanding Housing Markets: Real Progress or Stalled Agendas? / Duncan MacLennan -- Housebuilding and Housing Supply / Michael Ball -- Housing Behaviour / Maarten van Ham -- Residential Mobility and the Housing Market / William A.V. Clark -- Neighborhoods and their Role in Creating and Changing Housing / George Galster -- SECTION TWO: APPROACHES -- The Neo-Liberal Legacy to Housing Research / Christine M. E. Whitehead -- Institutional Economics / Kenneth Gibb -- Social Geographic Interpretations of Housing Spaces / Tim Butler and Chris Hamnett -- Social Policy Approaches to Housing Research / David Clapham -- Social Constructionism and Beyond in Housing Research / David Clapham -- A Review of Structurally Inspired Approaches in Housing Studies: Concepts, Contributions and Future Perspectives / Julie Lawson -- Housing Politics and Political Science / Bo Bengtsson -- People-Environment Studies / Roderick Lawrence -- SECTION THREE: CONTEXT -- Housing and the Economy / Geoffrey Meen -- Housing and Welfare Regimes / Walter Matznetter and Alexis Mundt -- Housing Markets, the Life Course, and Migration Up and Down the Urban Hierarchy / Christopher Bitter and David A. Plane -- Housing and Social Life / Ray Forrest -- Housing: From Low Energy to Zero Carbon / Phillip Jones -- SECTION FOUR: POLICY ISSUES -- Homelessness / Suzanne Fitzpatrick -- Affordable Housing / Chris Leishman and Steven Rowley -- Housing Subsidies / Judith Yates -- Ethnic Residential Segregation: Reflections on Concepts, Levels and Effects / Sako Musterd -- Social Consequences of Residential Segregation and Mixed Neighborhoods / Ronald van Kempen and Gideon Bolt -- Managing Social Housing / Hugo Priemus.

An exhaustive, international overview of this broad field with a unique approach that bridges disciplines and moves beyond theoretical discussion to demonstrate how the central concepts can be applied.

9781847874306: £95.00 1847874304 (hbk.) 9781446247570 1446247570 9781847874306 (hbk.)


Housing policy.
Housing.
Society.
Social services & welfare, criminology
Social & ethical issues
Regional & area planning
Welfare & benefit systems
Regional geography


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Electronic reference sources.
Electronic handbooks.

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