Housing economics : a historical approach / Geoffrey Meen, Kenneth Gibb, Chris Leishman, Christian Nygaard.
Meen, Geoffrey P., author.; Gibb, Kenneth, author.; Leishman, Chris, 1971- author.; Nygaard, Andi, author.
2016
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Title
Housing economics : a historical approach / Geoffrey Meen, Kenneth Gibb, Chris Leishman, Christian Nygaard.
Author
Meen, Geoffrey P., author.
ISBN
9781137472717 (electronic book)
1137472715 (electronic book)
9781137472700
1137472707
Published
[London] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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HD7333.A3
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.50941
Summary
The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housing Economics provides a long-term economic perspective on macro and urban housing issues, from the Victorian era onwards. A historical perspective sheds light on modern problems and the constraints on what can be achieved; it concentrates on the key policy issues of housing supply, affordability, tenure, the distribution of migrant communities, mortgage markets and household mobility. Local case studies are interwoven with city-wide aggregate analysis. Three sets of issues are addressed: the underlying reasons for the initial establishment of residential neighbourhoods, the processes that generate growth, decline and patterns of integration/segregation, and the impact of historical development on current problems and the implications for policy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gibb, Kenneth, author.
Leishman, Chris, 1971- author.
Nygaard, Andi, author.
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Preface
1. Introduction: Why a Historical Approach?
2. A Tale of Three Victorian Cities: Exploring Local Case Studies
3. Key Concepts from the Literature
4. Geology and Cities
5. Wars, Epidemics and Early Housing Policy: The Long-run Effects of Temporary Disturbances
6. Speculation, Sub-division, Banking Fraud and Enlightened Self-interest: The Making of the Contemporary Glasgow Housing System
7. Building Our Way Out of Trouble
8. Residential Density Revisited: Sorting and Household Mobility
9. Path Dependence, the Spatial Distribution of Immigrant Communities and the Demand for Housing
10. Affordability and the Rise and Fall of Home Ownership
11. On the Persistence of Poverty and Segregation
12. Final Reflections
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