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The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies

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April 2012 | 528 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This Handbook elucidates and critically appraises the key issues within housing studies from a multi-disciplinary framework. It looks at ideas from a retrospective approach, but also analyzes the future directions of research and theory in the area demonstrating how the study of housing can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences. The book comes with a comprehensive introductory chapter and individual chapter introductions. It is divided into four parts: markets; approaches; context; and policy. With an international team of contributors, the Handbook is a stimulating, wide-ranging read that will be a useful source and reference for academics and researchers in geography, urban studies, sociology, social policy, economics, and political science.
 
Preface
Kenneth Gibb
PART ONE: HOUSING MARKETS
Duncan MacLennan
Understanding Housing Markets: Real Progress or Stalled Agendas?
Michael Ball
House-Building and Housing Supply
Maarten van Ham
Housing Behaviour
William A.V. Clark
Residential Mobility and the Housing Market
George Galster
Neighbourhoods and Their Role in Creating and Changing Housing
David Clapham
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Christine M. E. Whitehead
The Neo-Liberal Legacy to Housing Research
Kenneth Gibb
Institutional Economics
Tim Butler and Chris Hamnett
Social Geographic Interpretations of Housing Spaces
David Clapham
Social Policy Approaches to Housing Research
David Clapham
Social Constructionism and beyond in Housing Research
Julie Lawson
A Review of Structurally Inspired Approaches in Housing Studies: Concepts, Contributions and Future Perspectives
Bo Bengtsson
Housing Politics and Political Science
Roderick Lawrence
People: Environment Studies
William A. V. Clark
PART THREE: CONTEXT
Geoffrey Meen
Housing and the Economy
Walter Matznetter and Alexis Mundt
Housing and Welfare Regimes
Christopher Bitter and David A. Plane
Housing Markets, the Life Course and Migration up and down the Urban Hierarchy
Ray Forrest
Housing and Social Life
Phillip Jones
Housing: From Low Energy to Zero Carbon
Kenneth Gibb
PART FOUR: POLICY ISSUES
Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Homelessness
Chris Leishman and Steven Rowley
Affordable Housing
Judith Yates
Housing Subsidies
Sako Musterd
Ethnic Residential Segregation: Reflections on Concepts, Levels and Effects
Ronald van Kempen and Gideon Bolt
Social Consequences of Residential Segregation and Mixed Neighbourhoods
Hugo Priemus
Managing Social Housing
David Clapham
Conclusion

The comprehensive volume we have long been waiting for. Chapters by leading scholars from many disciplines offer students, housing professionals and policy analysts an insightful examination of the complex aspects of the housing sector.

Andrejs Skaburskis
Queen's University and North American Editor of Housing Studies

So, what is a 'handbook of housing studies' actually for? Who will benefit from this book? Housing scholors will want to take a look at chapters in their research areas, but I suggest going beyond this and taking the opportunity to widen horizons. Scholars from other disciplines will benefit enormously from many chapters. And, of course, the handbook is a very valuable resource for students, with many chapters forming a good starting point for further study.

Jenny Muir
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

[U]nique in bringing together essays from a range of countries, on multiple issues, and from diverse and explicit economic and social perspectives. I have found myself recommending this book to colleagues from economics, public policy and urban planning as a broad yet focused introduction to the state of the art in housing studies research. The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies is a hugely important contribution to the field of housing studies, and should be in the library of every university, and on the shelves - or desks - of housing scholars everywhere.

Emily Silverman
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Geography Research Forum Journal

...an admirable consolidation of current knowledge and provides an excellent overview of contemporary housing issues.

Richard Ronald
University of Amsterdam

I challenge anyone to dip into this text without taking something new and important away. It is a ‘state-of-the-art’ collection, which offers an interdisciplinary even transdisciplinary perspective on the most important themes in the field; it is a fine, thought-provoking read.

Susan J. Smith, Department of Geography and Girton College, Cambridge University
International Journal of Housing Policy

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter One


David F Clapham

William Clark

William Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.  Trained as an ecologist, his research focuses on the interactions of environment, development and health concerns in international affairs.  At Harvard, he currently co-directs the Sustainability Science Program.  He is co-author of Adaptive environmental assessment and management (Wiley, 1978), and Redesigning rural development (Hopkins, 1982); editor of the Carbon dioxide review (Oxford, 1982); coeditor of Sustainable development of the biosphere ... More About Author

Kenneth Gibb

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