Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Housing & Urban Development

StreetCities charts the development of an alternative communal housing model for chronically homeless men and women in downtown Toronto. In her recounting of the stories and narratives of residents and staff at the original "StreetCity" and the second generation "Strachan House," Bridgman explores how living on the street (something often viewed as negative) has the potential to become a powerful emblem of community growth, tolerance, and caring. The histories of these two supportive housing projects are embedded within larger currents of governmental responses to homelessness in...

Homeownership--a core American Dream--remains elusive to millions of families priced out of the unstable housing market. This book explores the delicate balance between regulations designed to promote the production of sound, affordable housing in safe community environments and the red tape in which housing developers become entangled.

Based on case studies of communities in New Jersey and North Carolina, and building on extensive research on the housing development regulatory process, the authors examine the incidence of regulation and quantify the actual itemized costs of...

The materials in American Land Planning Law are derived from decades of experience in teaching planning law at six planning schools and three law schools. Among the hypotheses included here, two are clearly vindicated in the reading. The first involves basic tenets in the approach referred to as "legal realism"-that courts play a major role in policy formation. A second hypothesis is implicit in the basic organizational principle of these materials, that planning problems arise from land use conflicts, and further, that courts have adopted distinctive policies on these...

The Estates Gazette Law Reports are an indispensable reference for property law practitioners researching and advising on all aspects of landlord & tenant law, valuation, professional negligence, conveyancing, real property, leasehold enfranchisement and compensation.

Published over three volumes each year and edited by HH Judge Hazel Marshall QC, they conveniently summarise key current property cases.

The cumulative index is now included bound inside the cover of Volume 3. This volume contains listings of all cases from 2005-2011.

Das Standardwerk zum Bundesberggesetz enthalt die aktuellste und umfassendste Darstellung und Kommentierung des gesamten in Deutschland geltenden Bergrechts einschlielich der UVP-V Bergbau, der bergrechtlichen Vorschriften des Einigungsvertrages und der bergbaurelevanten auerberggesetzlichen Rechtsvorschriften. Es verbindet Grundlichkeit mit gedanklicher Klarheit und bietet einen hervorragenden Uberblick uber alle bergrechtlichen Probleme. Das Werk ist fur Praxis, Rechtsprechung und Wissenschaft gleichermaen von Bedeutung. Bergwerksbetriebe, Verwaltungen, Behorden, Hochschulinstitute und...

The Estates Gazette Law Reports are an indispensable reference for property law practitioners researching and advising on all aspects of landlord and tenant law, valuation, professional negligence, conveyancing, real property, leasehold enfranchisement and compensation. They comprise the law reports published in the Estates Gazette plus new and original cases published for the first time in EGLR. Each volume includes the most significant property cases determined in any given year.

Published over three volumes each year and edited by HH Judge Hazel Marshall QC, they conveniently...

Vom offentlichen Gesundheitswesen ist heute vielfach die Rede - meistens von seinen hohen Kosten, seinen Schwachen und von der Sphare zwischen medizinisch Machbarem und praktisch Finanzierbarem. Doch es geht keineswegs nur um finanzielle Fragen, um Beitragssatze und Kostendampfung, sondern uberhaupt um die gerechte Verteilung der verfugbaren Ressourcen, um die Ziele offentlicher Gesundheitsversorgung und um die anzuwendenden Verfahren ihrer Festlegung.

Die Abhandlung befat sich mit den verfassungsrechtlichen Vorgaben fur das offentliche Gesundheitswesen. Hierzu werden vorrangig zwei...