This book examines the experiences of single professionals living in shared housing in London, focusing on how language, communication, and social inequalities shape these living arrangements. It frames shared housing not only as an economic condi...Lasīt vairāk
Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. In this blistering expose, Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki take the reader inside this national scandal. Hundreds of...Lasīt vairāk
This book is an inspiring exploration of Sólheimar Ecovillage in Iceland, a pioneering community that embodies sustainability, social responsibility, and inclusivity. It will have a broad audience of architects, designers, occupational therapists, m...Lasīt vairāk
This book is an inspiring exploration of Sólheimar Ecovillage in Iceland, a pioneering community that embodies sustainability, social responsibility, and inclusivity. It will have a broad audience of architects, designers, occupational therapists, m...Lasīt vairāk
Insurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems, operating entirely outside the structures of government. But are they truly autonomous? In Insurgent Ur...Lasīt vairāk
Insurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems, operating entirely outside the structures of government. But are they truly autonomous? In Insurgent Ur...Lasīt vairāk
The 8th edition of the longstanding and reputable textbook The Income Approach to Property Valuation elevates its practicality, broadens its international appeal, and cements its market leading status by incorporating the latest...Lasīt vairāk
The 8th edition of the longstanding and reputable textbook The Income Approach to Property Valuation elevates its practicality, broadens its international appeal, and cements its market leading status by incorporating the latest...Lasīt vairāk
In Urban Regimes of Dispossession, the authors examine how urban elites organize dispossession and govern the urban dispossessed. They also explore the ways the urban dispossessed experience and resist dispossession. Additionally, they analyse...Lasīt vairāk
With ever-decreasing affordability and availability of homes, the UK has a longstanding and complex housing crisis. Rather than laying the blame on a particular group or cause, this book explains the root causes of our current housing situa...Lasīt vairāk
With ever-decreasing affordability and availability of homes, the UK has a longstanding and complex housing crisis. Rather than laying the blame on a particular group or cause, this book explains the root causes of our current housing situa...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the dynamics of community development thinking, processes, and approaches in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on how local actions are critical in reducing poverty, enhancing local innovations and sustainability, dive...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the dynamics of community development thinking, processes, and approaches in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on how local actions are critical in reducing poverty, enhancing local innovations and sustainability, dive...Lasīt vairāk
Could three levels of government work with real estate developers, non-profits, and private citizens to create an affordable, vibrant, and urban residential community?As the fiftieth anniversary of Toronto’s St. Lawrence neighbourhoo...Lasīt vairāk
In this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a rich and humane (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually live...Lasīt vairāk
A story of struggle and perseverance from an Eastern Kentucky woman who answered Florence Reeses timeless question, Which side are you on? with love and solidarity.Activist and organizer...Lasīt vairāk
A story of struggle and perseverance from an Eastern Kentucky woman who answered Florence Reeses timeless question, Which side are you on? by organizing her people with love and class solidarity.Activist and organizer B...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804298886)
Offers an alternative history of social housing as well as a celebration of women-led tenant activism fighting against profiteering landlords-- Provided by publisher. An alternative history of housing in post-war Britain a cautionary t...Lasīt vairāk
Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes real estate developers role in entrenching ethnic and political divisions from Baltimore to Belfast and beyond. Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict expos...Lasīt vairāk
Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes real estate developers role in entrenching ethnic and political divisions from Baltimore to Belfast and beyond. Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict...Lasīt vairāk
Examining the fundamental relationship between housing and health, this perceptive volume illuminates how the health of those living with housing instability are affected by the day-to-day issues they face.Based on a series of interviews wi...Lasīt vairāk
The city is a forward-looking project rooted in existing challenges and dynamics. This tension has been especially apparent in the 21st century, when city projects have been contending with great changes in different areas of society: globalizatio...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates urban life in the slums of Delhi, demonstrating how individuals and communities self-organize to solve problems that arise in their neighbourhoods.Around one-quarter of the worlds urban population live in informal, s...Lasīt vairāk
Research on the Governance Value of Poverty Reduction in China offers an in-depth exploration of how poverty alleviation efforts have reshaped governance structures, economic policies, and social development in China. Written by Professor Wang Hongya...Lasīt vairāk
This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. This volume...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India. Identifying key factors and measurable indicators of trans...Lasīt vairāk
Over the last decade, Spain has become an emblem of the contradictory relationship between capitalism and housing. During the house-price boom of the 2000s, Spain built homes on an unprecedented scale, with output levels that overshadowed those of e...Lasīt vairāk
In The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms, edited by Daniel Baldwin Hess, 37 city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals analyze three major parking reforms proposed by Donald Shoup, a...Lasīt vairāk
Forty city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals celebrate Donald Shoups contributions to parking research, practice, and education, and demonstrate how his ideas about parking reform can support affordable housing developm...Lasīt vairāk
Informal Housing in the Global North proposes analytical and conceptual approaches to investigate the progressing informalisation of contemporary housing in the Global North and beyond.Amidst the ongoing housing crisis, the reading...Lasīt vairāk
This is a book about policy change that focusses on a single case study: the rise and resilience of the Australian policy for Real Estate Carry. The text tracks investments of meaning and identity in the Australian p...Lasīt vairāk
Carole takes us through the experience of serving as a recovery counselor for people in addiction treatment and house manager at a residential center for those returning from houselessness. Having experienced decades of homelessness and addiction her...Lasīt vairāk
Research shows that U.S. veteran households tend to spend a smaller share of their income on housing and, thus, face lower levels of housing insecurity. In this report, the authors show that this national veteran advantage does not always exist at th...Lasīt vairāk
Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our timepoverty and homelessnessin asking the question: Who deserves the love of a pet?In Los Angeless most underserved communities, Lori Weise is known as t...Lasīt vairāk
A groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve Americas homelessness crisis. In And Housing for All, founder of the National Homelessness Law Center...Lasīt vairāk
Housing in the UK and globally has long been an area of central and local government concern, and this reflects its vital importance for both individual and social welfare. Despite increased public expenditure on housing in the post-war years hous...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Da Capo Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780306923036)
PORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER Zibby Owens 2022 Book of the Year A galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to become a leading advocate for child welfare, recognized by President Obama as an Ame...Lasīt vairāk
This collection illustrates the evolving role of housing as a symbol of modernity, a tool for economic recovery, and a response to societal transitions. It argues that understanding earlier efforts to integrate well-being in the 20th century can p...Lasīt vairāk
This collection illustrates the evolving role of housing as a symbol of modernity, a tool for economic recovery, and a response to societal transitions. It argues that understanding earlier efforts to integrate well-being in the 20th century can p...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1978, Georgian Houses for All describes how little Gregorian houses came into being and how the original inhabitants used them....Lasīt vairāk
In this unique book on housing in India, 11 leading scholars come together to offer a critical appraisal of current housing policies and programmes in India....Lasīt vairāk
Dispatches from the Threshold is an emergent archive of the burgeoning movement for housing justice in North America and beyond. Housing insecurity turned catastrophic during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the cruelty of threadbare tenant pr...Lasīt vairāk
The game-changing book from activist and campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa (kwajotweneboa) that investigates and exposes our housing emergency, and the steps we can take to rebuild with stronger foundations....Lasīt vairāk
The topic of housing is central to urban history as well as to social policy. Historians have focussed either on local conditions or national developments, but until first publication of this book in 1980, there had been few systematic attempts to r...Lasīt vairāk
Will has finally written his masterpiece. Im glad I could be of assistance - LAWRENCE Lawrence is the greatest pop star who never made it, his dreams of glory thwarted over the past five decades by bad luck and self-sabotage. At sixty-one,...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820366401)
With the rise of homelessness in many U.S. cities, municipal governments are sanctioning organized encampments as an official strategy for sheltering unhoused people. Examining the shortcomings and consequences of these municipal policies, The Injus...Lasīt vairāk
