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The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies

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April 2012 | 528 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Cross-disciplinary and critical in its approach, The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies is an elucidating look at the key issues within the field. It covers the study of housing retrospectively, but also analyses the future directions of research and theory, demonstrating how it can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences. A comprehensive introductory chapter is followed by four parts offering complete coverage of the area:
  • Markets: examines the perception of housing markets, how they function in different contexts, and the importance of housing behaviour and neighbourhoods
  • Approaches: looks at how other disciplines - economics, geography, and sociology - have informed the direction of housing studies
  • Context: traces the interactions between housing studies and other aspects of society, providing context to debate housing through issues of space, social, welfare and the environment.
  • Policy: is a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive take on the major policy issues and the causes and possible solutions of housing problems such as regeneration and homelessness.
Edited by leading names in the field and including international contributions, the book is a stimulating, wide-ranging read that will be an invaluable resource for academics and researchers in geography, urban studies, sociology, social policy, economics and politics.
 
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

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