Housing & Homelessness

This title was first published in 2002: In recent years there has been a trend among young people across Europe towards remaining longer in their p...

This title was first published in 2000. The privatization of former social state housing through recent public-private partnerships is becoming inc...

Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden subur...

In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of...

Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in the 1940s, Toronto...

Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theore...

Despite the current recession, the frequency of second home ownership is still surprisingly high throughout the western world. While the UK and Ire...

Despite the current recession, the frequency of second home ownership is still surprisingly high throughout the western world. While the UK and Ire...

Squatting is currently a global phenomenon. A concomitant of economic development and social conflict, squatting attracts public attention because ...

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastruc...

Any city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people. Yet, the life experiences of women uprooted from its poorest quarters se...

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban So...

This book outlines the history of squatting in Sweden and analyzes the conditions under which squatting has intensified and declined in the country...

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outb...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...

There is a large shortage of affordable housing across Europe. In highdemand urban areas housing shortages lead to unaffordable prices for many tar...

This title was first published in 2003. This text seeks to show the importance of housing to individuals and in the broader context of social welfa...

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, ...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies...

Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing polit...

First published in 1997, this volume recognises the issue of gender inequality in Hong Kong housing. The invisibility of the housing problem is com...

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and co...

Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism analyzes two informal housing settlements in Istanbul, Turkey Karanfilköy and Fatih Sultan ...