Housing and homelessness

Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade.

In a groundbreaking longitudinal study, researches studied seven similar social housing neighbourhoods in Ireland to determine what factors affected their liveability.

Public housing projects were the original form of government supported housing for low-income residents.

The Principles of Housing is an engaging and discursive introduction to the key topics within housing studies.

A multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving in community-based organizations using decision models and operations research applications A comprehensive treatment of public-sector operations research and management science, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities addresses critical problems in urban housing and community development through a diverse set of decision models and applications.

Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theoretical and historical framework that suggests that tenant control is the best way out of the still-problematic issue of housing policy.

The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment explains how and why homelessness among the mentally ill has persisted over the past 35 years, despite policy and program initiatives to end it.

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

Waite and Jewell: Environmental Law in Property Transactions provides a comprehensive practitioner guide to the environmental issues that arise in property transactions.

This fourth edition of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development guides readers through the procedural and practical aspects of developing land from the point of view of both planner and developer.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends in the market.

A touching four-year chronicle of five girls coming of age in impoverished rural Maine and learning to forge their own paths through life's struggles.

Cities and Digital Platforms unravels the transformative impact of digital platforms such as Airbnb and Zoom on urban landscapes, illustrating their profound influence on housing, city planning, and the broader economic fabric.

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of teen runaways in the USA, including the demographic and socioeconomic dimensions of the problem.

Real estate development shapes the way people live and work, playing a crucial role in determining our built environment.

This book is a practitioner's guide to sustainable development, laying out strategies for attracting investment for communities and their partners.

As culture is becoming increasingly recognised as a crucial element of sustainable development, design competence has emerged as a useful tool in creating a meaningful life within a sustainable mental, cultural and physical environment.

Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life.

This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime.

People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction.

This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphasizes the role played by private property rights.

Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world.

Due to the financialization of housing in today's market, housing risks are increasingly becoming financial risks.

Studies in housing have often concentrated on an abstract institutionalised approach isolated from the broader base of the social sciences.

Built environments are complex, emergent, systemic, and require contextual analysis.

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

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

First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment.

This book analyses the phenomenon of digitally mediated property and considers how it problematises the boundary between human and nonhuman actors.

'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs.

Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning is the definitive introduction to public consultation for developers, students and planners.

Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world.

Are Arab Gulf cities, the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha, on their way to extinction?

Second homes (variously summer houses, shacks, baches, cottages, dacha) are a popular cultural phenomenon in many countries and an emerging trend in others.

In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe.

This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of the UK.

This is a study of the ideas and attitudes expressed in the extensive literature on poverty, pauperism and relief published in England between the 1790s and the 1830s.

First published in 1994, this book brings together the papers presented at the International Forum on 'Future Visions of Urban Public Housing' held on November 17-20, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Any city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people.

Now a Washington Post bestseller.

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.

Through an international comparative research, this unique book examines ethnic residential segregation patterns in relation to the wider society and mechanisms of social division of space in Western European regions.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Economics brings together an international panel of contributors to present a comprehensive overview of this important field within economics.

In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe.

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the law relating to houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in part 2 of the Housing Act 2004 that local authorities environmental health practitioners use to regulate this sector.

Collective Impact as a tool to bring about community change has seen remarkable growth in usage since 2011.

Altruism by Design: How to Effect Social Change as an Architect is meant to prepare the individual designer - whether a student or practicing professional - for a career dedicated to serving communities in need through design and construction.

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South.

Commercial conveyancing and property is a complex and diverse area with many potential pitfalls.

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