David Adams, Craig Watkins

Broschiertes Buch

Greenfields Brownfields Housing

Beschreibung

This is a powerful critique of the growing tendency to reduce thenew housing debate to a mere choice between greenfield andbrownfield locations. This book points at the structure andorganisation of the housebuilding industry, supply and demandpressures in the housing market, the contested nature ofsustainability and the political character of the planning process.All factors which must be considered if a truly effective housingland policy is to be devised.

The book:

analyses social, economic, and political influences on publicpolicy and private investment

places current controversies within a strong institutionalcontext

evaluates recent changes in housebuilding

explores how sustainable development provides both a common andcontested discourse for debates

examines financial and economic impacts of housing land policies

Autor

David Adams is Ian Mactaggart Professor of Property and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. Craig Watkins, Reader, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780632063871
• ISBN-10: 0632063874
• Artikelnr.: 13717337

Rezensionen

David Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of the RICS Foundation, issupportive of the authors conclusions:

"We welcome the government s proposed increase in thequantities of affordable housing, but would echo the findings ofGreenfields, Brownfields and Housing Development in urgingministers to look closely at how solutions to housing shortages canbecome catalysts for increased local prosperity and improvedquality of life".

"Overall Greenfields, Brownfields and Housing Developmentmakes an excellent and timely contribution to debate in this field.The political - economic barriers to more compact forms ofdevelopment are identified and the authors conclude that the statewill need to play a more active role in the development process ifa more sustainable form of housing development is to be achieved."Town Planning Review July 2003

This book provides the reader with a very soundunderstanding of the way in which house builders, planners and allthose with an interest in development are accommodating policychange since the mid 1990s. It draws on a wealth of researchexperience and provides a very useful mix of material....animportant milestone Journal of Housing and the BuiltEnvironment.

I learned a lot from this book and it is important to anyoneworking or doing research in the field of contemporary housingdevelopment European Planning Studies Vol 11, No 8