Housing and homelessness Books
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Homelessness among Young People in Prague
Book SynopsisThe chronically homeless face a stark reality: lack of access to support systems, adequate shelter, and sustenance, with little hope for something better. For young people, however, life on the street may be merely a temporary stage in their lives. This book tells of homelessness among young people - the causes and their attitudes to the various problems they face. Young homeless people describe a life in which they lose their privacy, the possibility to satisfy their basic needs, and, often, their self-respect in order to survive. The latter half of the book considers what happens when these young people return to society and how they navigate difficulties as they attempt to leave their past behind. Often, the struggle is not solely one of coping with the stigma of their experience; rather, they must face the legacies that linger long after their lives have turned a corner: drug addiction, criminal records, and accumulated debt. Based on interviews with homeless people in Prague, Homelessness as an Alternative Existence of Young People paints an authentic picture of this social group and documents the often unseen social consequences of the transformation to capitalism from communism.
£15.00
Bellaterra DERECHO A LA VIVIENDA
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United Nations #Housing2030: effective policies for affordable
Book SynopsisThe study explores housing affordability challenges and existing policy instruments for improving housing affordability in the regions covered by UNECE and presents examples of "good practices" in improving housing affordability among countries and cities. The study focuses on four topics, namely: housing governance and regulation; access to finance and funding; access and availability of land for housing construction; and Climate-neutral housing construction and renovation
£33.96
United Nations Social panorama of Latin America 2016
Book SynopsisIn this edition of Social Panorama of Latin America, ECLAC has addressed the questions posed by the countries of the region in three major areas: income inequality between individuals and households and how these relate to labour market dynamics; the evolution of poverty and its determinants; and the effects of pension systems on equality. The poverty analysis in this 2017 edition is based on a major update of the methodology used; this offers improved comparability between countries, which is an essential input for conducting an overall analysis of how poverty and its determinants have evolved. This effort has led to the creation of a new regional data series. The new statistical series using the national data will be made public by ECLAC in the first half of 2018 once the consultations with the respective countries have been concluded. In this edition, as well as continuing the analysis of the dimensions of social inequality given in previous years, Commission presents a new study of the demographic context and labour market inequalities, and how these relate to the coverage and quality of pension benefits.
£52.00
United Nations Handbook on census management for population and
Book SynopsisThe publication is intended to serve as a reference document on management aspects of conducting a population and housing census. The handbook provides guidelines, mainly, for population and housing censuses based on traditional field enumeration. The objectives of the publication, in particular, are to provide guidance to countries on how to: (i) develop a structure able to effectively manage the census planning and operational processes; (ii) plan all the processes that need to be considered in establishing a census; and (iii) design control and monitoring processes. The publication is also useful to those who need to plan surveys given the detailed description of the overall process of collecting, processing, and disseminating the data. The structure of the handbook reflects as closely as possible the census cycle. The initial chapters discuss management aspects concerning the planning and preparatory stages, followed by discussions on the operational stages, i.e.: pre-enumeration activities, field operations, processing, dissemination of census results, evaluation and finally documentation and archiving
£60.00
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health
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Amsterdam University Press The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising
Book SynopsisTemporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning. Drawing on seven years of semi-ethnographic research, it explores the politics of temporariness from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation, media representations and wider political and cultural shifts in austerity London. Through a longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of vacant space re-appropriation and its commodification. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it presents a critique of the permanence of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity which are transforming cities, subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.Trade Review'This is an excellent book. The author combines an analysis of the complex narratives and policy rhetoric surrounding the temporary uses of urban space, with an in-depth ethnographic observation of practices of temporary use and their perceptions by various stakeholders. She embeds the London field work in contemporary debates and recent scholarship from urban and cultural geography, urban studies, architectural and planning studies, in a perceptive and refined manner, leading to powerful conclusions about the ambiguous role of temporary uses of space in a post-austerity, neoliberal city where precarious forms of living and working have become dominant.'-Professor Claire Colomb, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College LondonTable of ContentsChapter 1. Temporary urbanism: a situated approach Reclaiming spaces and the role of temporariness The trope of temporariness as 'alterity' For a situated approach to temporary urbanism 'Post-crisis' London The book's questions Chapter 2. The entangled field of temporary urbanism The emergence of a discourse Countering recessional perceptions 'Creative' fillers Art showcasing to the world: pop-up in the shadow of the 2012 Games The rise of the pop-up intermediary Meanwhilers: a clever rebranding The Meanwhile London Competition Enrolling urban professionals in the shift to austerity The unresolved question of unlawful occupations Conclusion: the primacy of property Chapter 3. 'Not a pop-up!' The experience of performers and visual artists A well-established history 'Provided you can beg, steal or borrow a space' Group+Work and 1990s myths in public commissioning Pop-ups in Westminster ArtEvict in 'forgotten spaces' Settling down in Hackney Wick Fish Island? Pop-up spaces as festivals and digital arts incubators Conclusions: in the cracks of the creative city promise Chapter 4. Staging temporary spaces Experiential economies and the performativity of urban activation The Elephant as a site for 'community engagement' Studio at the Elephant A strategy of open programming Visibility for recognition Mediating face-to-face interactions Empowerment for surrender? Conclusions: the openness of agonistic encounters Chapter 5. Planning a temporary city of on-demand communities Temporariness in planning at times of austerity 'Stitching the fringes' before and after the Olympics Learning from Others: interim uses as urban 'testing sites' Vacant land and setting up a temporary community hub Young people and the 'two communities' Risky grassroots Temporary 'urban vitality' in the LLDC Local Plan (2015-2031) 'Seeding' long-term uses Learning to become 'on-demand communities' Conclusions: the risk of planned precarization Chapter 6. The normalisation of temporariness Underused spaces as a 'problem' The projective logic Ephemeral architectures Permanent 'times of uncertainty' Tactical or precarious acting? Precarity as temporal foreclosure Conclusion: reclaiming urban space-time after the pop up Index Bibliography
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Springer Verlag, Singapore A Transition to Sustainable Housing: Progress and
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.Table of ContentsHousing for a sustainable future.- Current housing provision.- A critical juncture.- The sustainable housing challenge.- Providing sustainable housing through sustainability transitions.- Socio-technical dimensions for a sustainable housing transition.- Sustainable housing in practice.- Facilitating the sustainable housing transition.- Prospects for a sustainable housing transition.
£31.49
Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People Fixing the
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NUS Press Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee
Book SynopsisThe crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces of their historical influence on the life in the city-state. In one such settlement, located in an area known as Bukit Ho Swee, a great fire in 1961 destroyed the kampong and left 16,000 people homeless, creating a national emergency that led to the first big public housing project of the new Housing and Development Board (HDB). HDB flats now house more than four-fifths of the Singapore population, making the aftermath of the Bukit Ho Swee fire a seminal event in modern Singapore.Loh Kah Seng grew up in one-room rental flats in the HDB estate built after the fire. Drawing on oral history interviews, official records and media reports, he describes daily life in squatter communities and how people coped with the hazard posed by fires. His examination of the catastrophic events of 25 May 1961 and the steps taken by the new government of the People's Action Party in response to the disaster show the immediate consequences of the fire and how relocation to public housing changed the people's lives. Through a narrative that is both vivid and subtle, the book explores the nature of memory and probes beneath the hard surfaces of modern Singapore to understand the everyday life of the people who live in the city.Shortlisted for the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) Humanities Book Prize 2015.
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Takeover
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