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Renewing Europe´s Housing
R (Ed) Turkington
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Description for Renewing Europe´s Housing
Hardback. Expert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal policy and practice in nine European countries. Shared concerns over energy conservation, social protection and inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of public and private sectors, form the basis of a proposed policy agenda for housing renewal across Europe. Editor(s): Turkington, Richard; Watson, Christopher. Num Pages: 328 pages, 60 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 642.
Many European cities have a shortage of good quality, affordable housing, but this problem has become less prominent in policy than it should be. This timely book aims to redress that balance. After an introductory chapter, expert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal policy and practice in nine European countries in its physical, economic, social, community and cultural aspects. Shared concerns over energy conservation, social protection and inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of the public and private sectors form the basis of a proposed policy agenda for housing renewal across Europe. The concluding chapters draw conclusions ... Read more
Many European cities have a shortage of good quality, affordable housing, but this problem has become less prominent in policy than it should be. This timely book aims to redress that balance. After an introductory chapter, expert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal policy and practice in nine European countries in its physical, economic, social, community and cultural aspects. Shared concerns over energy conservation, social protection and inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of the public and private sectors form the basis of a proposed policy agenda for housing renewal across Europe. The concluding chapters draw conclusions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bristol University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447310129
SKU
V9781447310129
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About R (Ed) Turkington
Richard Turkington is Executive Director of Housing Vision; Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Comparative Housing Research, De Montfort University, Leicester; and a member of the Coordination Committee of the European Network for Housing Research. Christopher Watson is a former Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies and a member of the Housing and Communities Group, ... Read more
Reviews for Renewing Europe´s Housing
"The strength of the book is...the indisputable value as a handbook on housing renewal that surely will be widely used and cited." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment "Renewing Europe's Housing, edited by Richard Turckington and Christopher Watson, re-opens a crucial debate on housing policies and practices in the face of a new housing crisis that characterizes many European ... Read more