Michael Harloe

The People's Home? (eBook, ePUB)

Social Rented Housing in Europe and America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444399400
• Artikelnr.: 38452477

Autorenporträt

Michael Harloe is Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. He is founder Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, published by Blackwell. Of his many books the most recent is Divided Cities: New York and London in the Contemporary World (Blackwell, 1992), co-edited with Susan Fainstein and Ian Gordon.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism.
1. Social Housing and the `Social Question': Housing Reform before 1914.
2. The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the Great War.
3. Social Housing in the Depression.
4. The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstruction and Growth.
5. Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the Contemporary Era.
6. Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.