Are you concerned about the state of current housing provision? Worried about further decline in the years ahead? Decent Homes for All addresses fundamental questions about the current housing crisis; examining its history and evolution.
The first text on the housing-planning interface, it explores the relationship between planning and housing supply, focusing on housing supply, the quality and form of residential development, affordability and sustainability and the changing nature of planning itself. The questions covered include:
Why have we moved away from...
Are you concerned about the state of current housing provision? Worried about further decline in the years ahead? Decent Homes for All add...
This book examines the processes and relationships that underpin the delivery of new homes across the United Kingdom, focussing primarily on the land use planning system in England, the way that housing providers engage with that system, and how the processes of engagement are changing or might change in the future.
Planning, market and social house building - the three key processes - are first dissected and explored individually, then brought together to study the key areas of interaction between planning and the providers of social and market housing by way of the range of...
This book examines the processes and relationships that underpin the delivery of new homes across the United Kingdom, focussing primarily on the la...
There are many facets of housing pressure in rural areas, not all of which are the consequences of economic or market forces. Changing demographics and migration, cultural and societal attitudes towards rural and urban living and property acquisition, land use planning regulatory controls, the difficulty of securing affordable housing provision, a desirability for urban containment and countryside protection, the decline of traditional rural employment, the closure or absence of rural services, community uncertainty and social exclusion, and the constant environmental and social pressure...
There are many facets of housing pressure in rural areas, not all of which are the consequences of economic or market forces. Changing demographics an...
More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises urban fringe: the countryside around towns that has been called plannings last frontier. One of the key challenges facing spatial planners is the land-use management of this area, regarded by many as fit only for locating sewage works, essential service functions and other un-neighborly uses. However, to others it is a dynamic area where a range of urban and rural uses collide. "Planning on the Edge" fills an important gap in the literature, examining in detail the challenges that planning faces in this no-mans land. It presents both...
More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises urban fringe: the countryside around towns that has been called plannings last frontier. One of...
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever greater desire to take control of their own lives and neighborhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularize it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localizing democracy. This unique book analyzes the contexts, drivers, and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the Global North: from emergent neighborhood planning in England to the community-based housing...
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever greater desire to take control of their ow...
This book analyses the key forces affecting the affordability of rural homes in Britain and the changing shape of housing markets. It takes as its starting point, demographic trends impacting upon rural communities and upon market dynamics. From this point, it explores consequent patterns of housing affordability, examining changing opportunities in the rental and sale markets, at different spatial scales. The book also focuses on how markets are analysed, and how data are selectively used to demonstrate low levels of affordability, or a lack of need for additional housing in small village...
This book analyses the key forces affecting the affordability of rural homes in Britain and the changing shape of housing markets. It takes as its sta...
Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community action shape rural spaces.
The second edition provides an examination of the composite nature of 'rural planning', which combines land-use and spatial planning elements with community action, countryside management and the projects and programmes of national and supra-national agencies and organisations. It also offers a broad analysis of entrepreneurial social action as a shaper of rural...
Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges facing rural plac...
In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the best, most sustainable, locations. "Politics, " "Planning and Housing Supply in Australia, England and Hong Kong" examines the politics and planning of new homes in three very different settings, but with shared political traditions: in Australia, in England and in Hong Kong. It investigates the power-relationships and politics that underpin the allocation of land for large-scale residential schemes and the processes and politics that lead to...
In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the b...
