The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies

Editor/Author Clapham, David F., Clark, William A. V. and Gibb, Kenneth
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Sage UK

Single-User Purchase Price: $176.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $264.00
ISBN: 978-1-84787-430-6
Category: Social Sciences
Image Count: 62
Book Status: Available
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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.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Section 1 Housing Markets - Edited by Kenneth Gibb
  • 1 Understanding Housing Markets: Real Progress or Stalled Agendas? - Duncan Maclennan
  • 2 Housebuilding and Housing Supply - Michael Ball
  • 3 Housing Behaviour - Maarten van Ham
  • 4 Residential Mobility and the Housing Market - William A.V. Clark
  • 5 Neighborhoods and Their Role in Creating and Changing Housing - George Galster
  • Section 2 Approaches - Edited by David Clapham
  • 6 The Neo-Liberal Legacy to Housing Research - Christine M.E. Whitehead
  • 7 Institutional Economics - Kenneth Gibb
  • 8 Social Geographic Interpretations of Housing Spaces - Tim Butler and Chris Hamnett
  • 9 Social Policy Approaches to Housing Research - David Clapham
  • 10 Social Constructionism and Beyond in Housing Research - David Clapham
  • 11 A Review of Structurally Inspired Approaches in Housing Studies - Concepts, Contributions and Future Perspectives - Julie Lawson
  • 12 Housing Politics and Political Science - Bo Bengtsson
  • 13 People-Environment Studies - Roderick Lawrence
  • Section 3 Context - Edited by William A.V. Clark
  • 14 Housing and the Economy - Geoffrey Meen
  • 15 Housing and Welfare Regimes - Walter Matznetter and Alexis Mundt
  • 16 Housing Markets, the Life Course, and Migration Up and Down the Urban Hierarchy - Christopher Bitter and David A. Plane
  • 17 Housing and Social Life - Ray Forrest
  • 18 Housing: From Low Energy to Zero Carbon - Phillip Jones
  • Section 4 Policy Issues - Edited by Kenneth Gibb
  • 19 Homelessness - Suzanne Fitzpatrick
  • 20 Affordable Housing - Chris Leishman and Steven Rowley
  • 21 Housing Subsidies - Judith Yates
  • 22 Ethnic Residential Segregation - Reflections on Concepts, Levels and Effects - Sako Musterd
  • 23 Social Consequences of Residential Segregation and Mixed Neighborhoods - Ronald van Kempen and Gideon Bolt
  • 24 Managing Social Housing - Hugo Priemus
  • Conclusion - David Clapham