David Adams, Craig Watkins

Greenfields, Brownfields and Housing Development (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The location of new housing development has become one of the most intractable controversies of modern times. This book provides a powerful critique of the growing tendency to reduce the debate on the development of new housing to a mere choice between greenfield and brownfield locations. It calls for full account to be taken of such factors as the structure and organisation of the housebuilding industry, supply and demand pressures in the housing market, the contested nature of sustainability and the political character of the planning process if a truly effective housing land policy is to be devised. Drawing on theories from economics and political science, this book will provide an important reference point on the institutional context within which residential development takes place and on the concerns of planning authorities, environmentalists, housebuilders, and their customers in relation to the apparent choice between greenfield and brownfield development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405172462
• Artikelnr.: 38407986

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: THE POLICY CONTEXT - Introduction
The changing context of housing development
The sustainability of new housing development
The residential planning process
. Part 2: MARKET, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONTEXT - The speculative housebuilding industry
The politics of planning and housing development
. PART 3 POLICY EVALUATION - Greenfield housing development
Brownfield housing development
The economics of planning and housing development
Conclusions and policy implications
Bibliography
Index

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