Housing and homelessness

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This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants.

Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China?

Issues of 'difference' are on the agenda right across the social sciences, and are encountered daily by practitioners in policy fields.

This book presents the major features of the path that Turkish housing system has followed since 2000.

This volume brings together expert contributors across different fields of private law to comment on key decisions by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC).

Originally published in 1986 Holford is not just a biography of a major architect, planner and civic designer.

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century.

Ecofeminism is for those who desire to improve their understanding of the current crises of poverty, environmental destruction, violence, and human rights abuses, and their causes.

First translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962, this book has inspired practitioners for generations.

Universally, the production, maintenance and management of housing have been, and continue to be, market-based activities.

In Windows: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the history, dating, development, care, repair and conservation of windows by authors who are experts in their fields.

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

Mathieu lives in the street by choice, eschewing drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol.

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

Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States.

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness.

India, despite being largely rural, has struggled to maintain an adequate social infrastructure in its rural regions due to insufficient need-based development interventions, low public spending, limited market reach and a lack of individual contributions.

An introduction to the problems and practices of planning in London.

Winner of the 2021 ARCC Book AwardComplex Housing introduces an architectural type called complex housing, common to the Netherlands and found in other Northern European countries.

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages.

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.

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

This 5th edition of Commonwealth Caribbean Property Law sets out clearly and concisely the central principles of the law of real property in the region, guiding students through this core but often complex subject area.

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock.

This second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color.

Since the start of the twenty-first century, urban communities have faced increasing challenges in housing affordability, with environmental issues causing additional concern.

The Squatters' Movement in Europe is the first definitive guide to squatting as an alternative to capitalism.

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities.

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape.

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create both potential and problems within settlements.

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2, are handbooks not only for students studying residential surveying but also for those involved in the appraisal of residential property.

The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers.

This book explores the contribution of women to the development of housing management in the 20th century.

This book presents a series of debates arising from the housing needs of different EU countries.

This book closely examines controversial claims and beliefs surrounding poverty and anti-poverty programs in the United States.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably.

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context.

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize.

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Placemaking: Production of Built Environment in Two Cultures is a book about the context of placemaking - the production of vernacular architecture and settlement.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

The embedding of energy efficiency in the management of individual housing organisations is crucial for the realization of current ambitious energy efficiency policies.

Engendering Cities examines the contemporary research, policy, and practice of designing for gender in urban spaces.