Housing Urban Development category: 85 books
by Amy M. McClain
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) initiated the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) as a means of preserving affordable housing and infusing capital funds to address a growing backlog of capital needs among the nation's public housing and Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world. This book explores international examples of the property rights tensions involved in attempting to develop denser, more sustainable cities through compulsory acquisition of property. The case studies...
What a City Is For
Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.
Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes,...
Challenges of the Housing Economy
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This timely book addresses key challenges faced by policy makers and the house-building industry in a post-credit crunch world. It examines the implications for households, the housing market, the economy, as well as for government's policy choices.
Challenges of the Housing Economy: an international...
Neo-Socialist Property Rights
The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized...
by Dr David Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the current debates and discussions in housing policy and practice. It acts as a source of reference for anyone studying or working in the housing field; from social policy studies to town planning.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Slums, informal settlements, and dilapidated inner-city tenements are problems that many cities in Asia and the Pacific struggle with while their economies try to modernize and develop. Their existence puts at risk not only these economies but also poor people occupying vulnerable areas that climate...
The Emergence of Pacific Urban Villages
Urbanization Trends in the Pacific Islands
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed “urban villages” as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities. It investigates the meaning and conceptualization of myriad forms of urban villages by examining the evolution...
Housing America
Building Out of a Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Housing policy not only aff ects all Americans' quality of life, but has a direct impact on their fi nancial well being. About 70 percent of American households own their own homes, and for most, their homes represent the majority of their net worth. Renters are aff ected by housing policy. Even the...
Housing: Participation and Exclusion
Collected Papers from the Socio-Legal Studies Annual Conference 1997, University of Wales, Cardiff
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Published in 1998, current themes in housing are explored in this collection of papers. The gamut of issues surrounding participation, such as tenant participation or decision-making participation, together with the forces leading to exclusion, such as in relation to ethnic minorities, are examined....
by Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it—by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
Race, Housing and Community
Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book provides an important new contribution to debates around housing policy and its impact on community cohesion.
There has never been a more prescient time to discuss these concepts: the book provides an interpretation of housing, race and community cohesion in a highly politicized and...
Global Perspectives in Urban Law
The Legal Power of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The growing field of urban law demands a collaborative scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives. This volume offers diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and analyses of topics ranging from criminal reform and urban housing, to social and economic inequality and financial...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The urban metabolism framework maps the activities of cities from their consumption of materials, the different activities associated with those processes, and the wastes produced. Information generated provides a diagnostic tool for identifying high waste generating or inefficient activities and...