Friday, September 17, 2010

HOUSING The Essential Foundations free download


Housing The Essential Foundations free download
Housing: The Essential Foundations provides a comprehensive introduction to housing studies. This topical text is essential reading for students embarking on degree and diploma courses in housing, surveying, town planning and other related subjects. Professionals within these fields will also find the book valuable as a source of up-to-date information and data.

Uniquely multi-disciplinary and including a wealth of illustrations and examples, this book focuses on key topics which include:
* equal opportunities and housing organisations
* town planning and housing development
* housing management, design and development
* economics of housing
* management and organisation
* environmental health and housing
* property, housing law, policy-making and politics
* housing policy and finance prior to and post Thatcherism
* future policy issues under the Labour government post 1997

Throughout the authors stress the importance of housing market activity that accords with good planning practice, legislation, democratic decision-making, economy and efficiency.
In introducing the many diverse aspects of housing within a single volume, this book provides the essential foundations for the study of this multi-disciplinary subject.


Table of Contents
Title Page
Contents
Plates
Figures
Tables
Introduction
1: An Overview of Pre-Thatcherite Housing Policy
2: The Economics of Housing
3: Housing Policy and Finance
4: Equal Opportunities and Housing
5: Town Planning and Housing Development
6: Housing Design and Development
7: Environmental Health and Housing
References
8: Legal Studies, Property and Housing Law
9: Management and Organisation
10: Policy-Making and Politics
11: Conclusion
Index







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