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  • Healthy Housing

    A practical guide

    by Ray Ranson ...
    The objective of this book is to encourage administrations to formulate a sound housing policy to solve basic health-related housing problems and to meet WHO's objective of healthful housing for all by the year 2000. The principles of healthy housing have universal applicability, as most countries of the developed world have areas of slum or otherwise insanitary housing. It is hoped that this ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    How Individuals and Organizations from Diverse Sectors of Society Are Coming Together to Reduce Poverty in Canada

    Edited by Paul Born ...
    *Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information -- a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase.*In Canada, "poverty reduction" is no longer a "wouldn't it be nice" dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality.Why?Because all across the country ... Read more

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  • Branding New York

    How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World

    by Miriam Greenberg ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Award for best Community and Urban Sociology book!Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of "image" in urban history, showing who produces brands and how, and demonstrates the enormous consequences of branding. She shows that the branding of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Gentrification in a Global Context

    Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings ... Read more

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  • Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South

    Seeking Sustainable Solutions

    Edited by Jan Bredenoord, Paul Van Lindert, Peer Smets ...
    The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents the facts and trends of recent housing policies. The chapters provide ideas and tools for pro-poor interventions with respect to the provision of land for ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Crime Prevention Through Housing Design

    Edited by Dr Paul Stollard ...
    This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same.This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • The Transit Metropolis

    A Global Inquiry

    by Robert Cervero ...
    Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives to car travel. What sets these places apart?In this book, noted transportation expert ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

    A New Future for the Cottage Estates

    by Martin Crookston ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian onlineFaced 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 suburbs that already exist?Over the first six decades of the twentieth century, councils across Britain created a new and optimistic form of housing – the cottage estates of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Hidden Millions

    Homelessness in Developing Countries

    by Graham Tipple, Suzanne Speak ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This book explores the extent, causes and characteristics of homelessness in developing countries. Bringing together a major review of literature and empirical case studies, it is invaluable for those studying, researching or working in housing, homelessness, social policy or urban poverty.Drawing on local research in nine countries in the global south, this book offers an insight into the lives ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Young People and Housing

    Transitions, Trajectories and Generational Fractures

    Edited by Ray Forrest, Ngai-Ming Yip ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in search of permanent housing. Featuring international case studies from Asia, Europe, and Australia, Young People and Housing is a collection of groundbreaking work from leading scholars in housing policy.Younger generations across a wide range of societies face ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Global Strategy for Housing in the Third Millennium

    Edited by W.A. Allen, R.G. Courtney, E. Happold, A.M. Wood ...
    This book outlines the emerging determinants, in a global context, for the provision of housing for the growing, shifting and changing populations. In doing so the reader will be encouraged to forsee the complementary evolution in the planning, design and construction of housing in the developed and developing world. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Delivering New Homes

    Planning, Processes and Providers

    by Nick Gallent, Sarah Carmona, Sarah Carmona ...
    This book examines the processes and relationships that underpin the delivery of new homes across the United Kingdom, focussing primarily on the land use planning system in England, the way that housing providers engage with that system, and how the processes of engagement are changing or might change in the future.Planning, market and social house building - the three key processes - are first ... Read more

    $102.99 USD