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Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
The world development institutions commonly present 'urban governance' as an antidote for the so-called ‘urbanisation of poverty’ and ‘parasitic urbanism’ in Africa. This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth systematic analysis of the meaning, nature, and effects of 'urbangovernance' in theory...
To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The contributions thus highlight how the term ‘empowerment’ in the context of decentralization regimes masks a competing array of intentions and agendas. Who...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
Social housing has long been delivered through mixed economy mechanisms, but there has been little focus in housing studies on what this means for housing organisations themselves. This book presents recent international research applying concepts of social enterprise and hybridity to illuminate...
To Be Published September 8th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970’s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives. Governments have serially failed to do the job at...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
The last two decades have seen a marked growth in comparative research within the field of housing studies. This reflects the increasing globalisation of housing finance and therefore the interconnectedness of housing markets, growing interest among researchers and policy makers in learning from...
To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Ontological Explorations
Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing. This phenomenon cannot be adequately explained with simple descriptions of key events, politics and housing outcomes. Critical Realism and...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
There is a regular call for UK housing statistics to compare them with international countries. However, statistics in the UK are compiled from the four separate and different housing stock surveys in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England which is difficult to combine as a unified whole....
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by IHS BRE Press
Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade. A period of upward economic indicators and massive urbanization was followed by a tremendous financial crash in 2007 that sank Spanish and Portuguese societies into a profound crisis....
To Be Published October 6th 2013 by Routledge
Affordable and Social Housing - Policy and Practice is a candid and critical appraisal of current big-ticket issues affecting the planning, development and management of affordable and social housing in the United Kingdom. The successor to the second edition of the established textbook An...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Housing and Society Series
In a groundbreaking longitudinal study, researches studied seven similar social housing neighbourhoods in Ireland to determine what factors affected their liveability. In this collection of essays, the same researchers return to these neighbourhoods ten years later to see what’s changed. Are these...
To Be Published November 7th 2013 by Routledge
