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Housing Economics A Historical Approach /

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. Housi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Meen, Geoffrey (Autor), Gibb, Kenneth (Autor), Leishman, Chris (Autor), Nygaard, Christian (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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