Village Housing explores the housing challenge faced by England's amenity villages, rooted in post-war counter-urbanisation and a rising tide of investment demand for rural homes.
***Shortlisted by 2021 National Urban Design Awards***Through seven London case studies of communities opposing social housing demolition and/or proposing community-led plans, Community-Led Regeneration offers a toolkit of planning mechanisms and other strategies that residents and planners working with communities can use to resist demolition and propose community-led schemes.
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing.
Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector.
Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena.
'Touching, insightful and human - this book demands a social and, above all, a political response' Jon SnowTamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking to people who liveon London s streets, the homeless and the destitute people who feel they areinvisible.
Based on four years of reporting, "e;a heartfelt portrait of five teenage girls growing up in Maine's remote and economically depressed Washington County"e; (Publishers Weekly).