Tag: Housing

January 25, 2024

A Contrived Countryside The Governance of Rural Housing in England 1900-74

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Free Download Keith Hoggart, "A Contrived Countryside: The Governance of Rural Housing in England 1900-74 "
English | ISBN: 3030626504 | 2021 | 582 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book shows how governance regimes before the 1970s suppressed rural prospects of housing improvement and created conditions for middle-class capture. Using original archival sources to reveal the intricacies of local and national policy processes, weak rural housing performances are shown to owe more to national governance regimes than local under-performance. Looking `behind the scenes’ at policy processes highlights neglected principles in national governance, and shows how investigating rural housing is fundamental to understanding the national scene. With original insights and a new analytical perspective, this volume offers evidence and conclusions that challenge mainstream assumptions in public policy, housing, rural studies and planning.

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January 16, 2024

Red Hot City Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta

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Free Download Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta by Dan Immergluck
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0520387635 | 342 Pages | EPUB | 13.9 MB
Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced heavily racialized gentrification while the suburbs have become more diverse, with many affluent suburbs trying to push back against this diversity. Exploring the city’s past and future, Red Hot City tracks these racial and economic shifts and the politics and policies that produced them.

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January 12, 2024

Bluefield Housing As Alternative Infill for the Suburbs

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032276908 | 335 Pages | PDF (True) | 86 MB
Suburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-rise character, avoiding gentrification, and opening neighbourhoods to more diverse housing choices. Bluefield Housing offers a new land definition and co-located infill model addressing these concerns, through describing and deploying the types of ad-hoc modifications that have been undertaken in the suburbs for decades. Extending green-, brown-, and greyfield definitions, it provides a necessary middle ground between the ‘do nothing’ attitude of suburban preservation and the ‘do everything’ approach of knock-down-rebuild regeneration.

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January 5, 2024

The architecture of social reform Housing, tradition, and German Modernism

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Free Download Isabel Rousset, "The architecture of social reform: Housing, tradition, and German Modernism "
English | ISBN: 1526159686 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 51 MB
The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture’s obsession with domesticity. Copiously illustrated, Rousset’s revealing analysis demonstrates how questions over aesthetics, style, urbanization, and technology that gripped the modernist imagination were deeply ingrained in a larger concern to reform society through housing. The increasing demand for new housing in Germany’s rapidly growing cities fostered critical exchanges between a heterogeneous group of actors, including architects, urban theorists, planners, and social scientists, who called for society to be freed from class antagonism through the provision of good, modest, traditionally-minded domestic design. Offering a compelling account of architecture’s ability to act socially, the book provocatively argues that architectural theory underwent its most critical epistemological transformation in relation to the dynamics of modern class politics long before the arrival of the avant-garde.

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January 5, 2024

Private Rental Housing in Transition Countries An Alternative to Owner Occupation (2024)

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Free Download József Hegedüs, Martin Lux, Vera Horváth, "Private Rental Housing in Transition Countries: An Alternative to Owner Occupation?"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1137507098, 1349701106 | PDF | pages: 422 | 4.3 mb
This book presents an overview of private rented housing in selected new EU member states and other transition countries – a topic scarcely researched to date, as it is largely part of the informal economy, and consequently often invisible to official statistics. Part I presents the private rented sector in Western and Northern European countries, the history of private renting under socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and thematic issues such as restitution and marginalized groups depending on privately rented housing. Part II provides a series of country case studies from the Central and East European region. Part III concludes with chapters on the possibility of utilizing the private rental sector in affordable housing provision through good practices in both old and new EU member states, and sets out to further the housing policy debate on European housing regimes. This unique edited collection will be of great value to scholars of and practitioners involved in housing policy and economics, urban development, international relations, politics, economics and sociology.

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