Housing and homelessness Books
University of Illinois Press The Fundamental Institution Poverty Social
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Extends the work Birk did in her first book, Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest (2015) . Both books critically examine the institutions and policies that sought to serve vulnerable rural populations. . . . Taken together, this scholarship is essential for anyone interested in understanding how ideas about farming and family shaped the experiences of America's rural poor and marginalized people." --H-Net Reviews"This well-written and researched book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the role that the poor farm played in welfare strategies for rural Americans." --Kansas History"A well-argued book based on impressive research and organized in a set of well-constructed chapters. It is an impressive contribution to the history of American social welfare systems and to American rural life from 1870s to 1930." --Missouri Historical Review"Informative and thoroughly researched, The Fundamental Institution tells the largely unknown story of America’s poor farms. Megan Birk argues persuasively that white rural poverty was commonplace, and poor farms were an essential part of localized public welfare systems until the 1930s. A valuable study."--Molly Ladd-Taylor, author of Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 11 The Founding of Community Institutions 152 Populations and Conditions 463 Farming for the County 744 Poor Farm Women 1045 The Poor Farm and Mental Health Care 1306 Old Age and Poor Farm Residency 1547 Poor Farms and Health Care 1758 Crisis and Transition 198Epilogue 216Appendix 221Notes 223Bibliography 259Index 283
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Fundamental Institution
Book SynopsisBy the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and the daily realities of life at poor farms. Conceived as an inexpensive way to provide care for the indigent, poor farms in fact attracted wards that ranged from abused wives and the elderly to orphans, the disabled, and disaster victims. Most people arrived unable rather than unwilling to work, some because of physical problems, others due to a lack of skills or because a changing labor market had left them behind. Birk blends the personal stories of participants with institutional histories to reveal a loose-knit system that provided a measure of care to everyone without an overarching philosophy of reform or rehabilitation. In-depth and innovative, The Fundamental Institution offers an overdue portrait of rural social welfare in the UniTrade Review"Extends the work Birk did in her first book, Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest (2015) . Both books critically examine the institutions and policies that sought to serve vulnerable rural populations. . . . Taken together, this scholarship is essential for anyone interested in understanding how ideas about farming and family shaped the experiences of America's rural poor and marginalized people." --H-Net Reviews"This well-written and researched book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the role that the poor farm played in welfare strategies for rural Americans." --Kansas History"A well-argued book based on impressive research and organized in a set of well-constructed chapters. It is an impressive contribution to the history of American social welfare systems and to American rural life from 1870s to 1930." --Missouri Historical Review"Informative and thoroughly researched, The Fundamental Institution tells the largely unknown story of America’s poor farms. Megan Birk argues persuasively that white rural poverty was commonplace, and poor farms were an essential part of localized public welfare systems until the 1930s. A valuable study."--Molly Ladd-Taylor, author of Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth CenturyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 11 The Founding of Community Institutions 152 Populations and Conditions 463 Farming for the County 744 Poor Farm Women 1045 The Poor Farm and Mental Health Care 1306 Old Age and Poor Farm Residency 1547 Poor Farms and Health Care 1758 Crisis and Transition 198Epilogue 216Appendix 221Notes 223Bibliography 259Index 283
£21.59
Indiana University Press Social Housing in the Middle East Architecture
Book SynopsisSocial Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.Trade ReviewCovering Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran and Israel, [this book is] a worthy overview of an oft-overlooked typology in the region. * RIBA Journal *Social housing is an architectural effort to engage social issues, and that places this well-edited, clearly organized, tightly written book firmly on essential reading lists for architectural and social historians, planners, and policy makers. * CAA Reviews *Table of Contents1. Marginalized Histories of Global Modernity: Social Housing in the Middle East / Kıvanç Kılınç, Mohammad GharipourPart I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing / Eliana Abu-Hamdi3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Mohamed Elshahed4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey / Bülent BatumanPart II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia / Nancy Demerdash6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948–1953 / Yael Allweil7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity / Michalis Sioulas and Panayiota Pyla8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait / Mae Al-AnsariPart III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements / Noam Shoked10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945–1960 / Jaleh Jalili and Farshid Emami11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in Izmir / Gülsüm Baydar, Kıvanç Kılınç, and Ahenk YılmazIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Social Housing in the Middle East Architecture
Book SynopsisSocial Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing in the region and considers how culture, faith, and politics influence the housing solutions offered.Trade ReviewCovering Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran and Israel, [this book is] a worthy overview of an oft-overlooked typology in the region. * RIBA Journal *Social housing is an architectural effort to engage social issues, and that places this well-edited, clearly organized, tightly written book firmly on essential reading lists for architectural and social historians, planners, and policy makers. * CAA Reviews *Table of Contents1. Marginalized Histories of Global Modernity: Social Housing in the Middle East / Kıvanç Kılınç, Mohammad GharipourPart I: Settings of Social Housing: Politics, Agency, and Social Reform2. Legitimizing the Jordanian State through Social Housing / Eliana Abu-Hamdi3. Workers' and Popular Housing in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Mohamed Elshahed4. Neoliberal Islamism and the Cultural Politics of Housing in Turkey / Bülent BatumanPart II: Histories of Social Housing: Identity, Nation, and Beyond5. Constructing Dignity: Primitivist Discourses and the Spatial Economies of Development in Postcolonial Tunisia / Nancy Demerdash6. Nation-Building in Israel: Negotiations over Housing as Grounds for the State-Citizen Contract, 1948–1953 / Yael Allweil7. Social Housing in Colonial Cyprus: Contestations on Urbanity and Domesticity / Michalis Sioulas and Panayiota Pyla8. Constructed Marginality: Women, Public Housing, and National Identity in Kuwait / Mae Al-AnsariPart III: Design and Construction: Transnational Systems and Localized Practices9. Rabbis, Architects, and the Design of Ultra-Orthodox City-Settlements / Noam Shoked10. Notions of Class and Culture in Housing Projects in Tehran, 1945–1960 / Jaleh Jalili and Farshid Emami11. Discrepant Spatial Practices: Contemporary Social Housing Projects in Izmir / Gülsüm Baydar, Kıvanç Kılınç, and Ahenk YılmazIndex
£25.19
University of Notre Dame Press Avoiding Governors Federalism Democracy and
Book SynopsisFenwick analyzes poverty alleviation strategies in Brazil and Argentina to show how federalism affects the ability of a national government to sustain a conditional cash transfer program.Trade Review"This carefully crafted study offers us critical insights on how institutional design affects both governing elites and the poor. It deserves a broad audience among policy makers, academics, and activists." —Nancy Bermeo, Nuffield Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Oxford"Tracy Beck Fenwick makes a compelling argument about the conditions that either facilitate or retard one of the most important social policy innovations of the contemporary period, which is the turn toward the use of conditional cash transfers to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Her core interest in how different levels of government interact in the provision of social services has become a question of great import. With respect to the recent literatures on decentralization, federalism, and subnational governments in Latin America more generally, Avoiding Governors is by far the most sophisticated attempt yet to integrate municipal governments more directly into the theoretical frameworks we use to study intergovernmental relations.” —Kent Eaton, University of California, Santa Cruz"This book puts into stark relief an argument that has only been made implicitly so far: that governors are to be avoided if federal governments in Latin America are to successfully put forth antipoverty policies. The question or pursuit is well stated: to examine why Brazil and Argentina had differing outcomes from similarly designed CCTs. The answer the author provides is that differences in federalism are key: While the setup in Brazil is such that the federal government can bypass governors, the national government in Argentina does not have the opportunity within its federal system to truly bypass the provinces and put through national policy in an equitable fashion throughout the territory. Rather, municipalities in Argentina are captured by the provincial level." —Wendy Hunter, University of Texas at Austin“Fenwick’s very useful book compares the implementation of anti-poverty programs in Brazil and Argentina. . . Fenwick also makes the interesting (and counterintuitive) argument that the extreme party fragmentation in Brazil may have actually been an advantage there.” —Choice“Fenwick’s book is a superb example of the power of political science to offer penetrating insights by coordinating the nuances of policy, history, and institutional configuration.” —Hispanic American Historical Review
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University of Notre Dame Press Work Options for Older Americans
Book SynopsisWhile mandatory retirement has been eliminated in the US, a myriad of policies and practices have an impact on an older worker's decision to work or retire and an employer's decision to retain and train an older worker. Teresa Ghilarducci and John Turner address many of the issues considered on a daily basis by employees and employers.Trade Review“This conference volume is a collection of 11 articles that examine the economic and labor-relations aspects of an aging workforce in the United States. While the articles span a variety of topics, the underlying question throughout the book is: given the inevitability of demographic changes, how can we make the continued labor force participation of older works a positive experience for both employers and employees? This book considers a variety of policy options that may encourage or facilitate work at older ages. Those interested in issues surrounding employment and older workers will find the collection of interest.” —Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
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Penn State University Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction
Book SynopsisA rhetorical analysis of conventional and unconventional models of homeless advocacy that positions each in relation to perennial anxieties about citizens’ abilities to fulfill democratic obligations. Trade Review“Melanie Loehwing importantly invites readers to consider these issues explicitly. Loehwing encourages us to understand how these assumptions operate and to evaluate them, reconstructing our notions of community as necessary. In doing so, we may build a new civic home on a firmer foundation of justice, equality, and mutual respect.”—Robert Asen Philosophy and Rhetoric“Approaches a topic connected to marginalized voices that is sorely missing from rhetorical studies and, in many cases, from critical analysis writ large: the discourse of, and rhetoric about, homeless communities. The value of this study is that it demonstrates the transformative benefits of viewing homelessness advocacy as a rhetorical means rooted in ‘home’ rather than just through and by instrumental and utile ends. Loehwing’s work serves as a watershed moment of exploring the double marginalization of homeless communities.”—Jason Black,author of American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and AllotmentTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Dwelling Within Democracy 1 The Rhetorical Conventions of Contemporary Homeless Advocacy 2 The Democratic Vision of Homeless Meal-Sharing Initiatives 3 The Democratic Bodies of the Homeless World Cup 4 The Democratic Temporalities of the Homeless Persons’Memorial Day Conclusion: Rhetorical Constructions of the Civic Home Notes Bibliography Index
£27.50
SPCK Publishing A House Built on Love The enterprising team
Book SynopsisThe story of how Ed and his wife Rachel developed and put into practice, in partnership with local churches, a vision to provide a home to ex-prisoners, refugees and victims of abuse.Trade ReviewI’ve admired Hope into Action for some time not least because it has a holistic depth to it. This book both highlights the needs in our country and inspires us to realise we can actually do something. My hope is, this important writing will challenge and encourage people and churches right across the country. * Rt Revd Rowan Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, former Archbishop of Canterbury *Ed Walker’s personal story is exciting and challenging in equal measure. The charity he leads, Hope into Action, is creatively pioneering a significant Christian response to the urgent housing needs of our nation. I recommend this book wholeheartedly. * Mandy Marshall: Co-Founder and Director of Restored Relationships *A powerful and inspiring story of the gospel at work in today’s world. There is so much here to encourage us all about the power of the Church and the potential for transformation in the lives of those most in need in our society. * Paul Harcourt, National Leader, New Wine England *I highly recommend this book. It links the local church with the homeless community and with some of the most broken. This book will build faith, encourage perseverance and could even be a transforming tool to encourage more people to fulfil the good works which God has called them to do. * Roy Crowne, Executive Director, Hope Together *Inspiring, encouraging, and saturated with deep wisdom. * Steve Clifford, former General Director, Evangelical Alliance *This book will challenge any reader in the very core of their being. * Elaine Storkey *Ed Walker’s attractively written story tells how Christian commitment and determination can be gloriously effective in meeting human needs. I have for many years been a great admirer of Hope into Action. Long may this excellent charity grow and flourish. * Jonathan Aitken, former cabinet minister, ex-offender and now prison chaplain *
£10.44
University of Washington Press Skid Road On the Frontier of Health and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ensign's devotion to her subjects is palpable, as are the rigor of her research and the care she has shown in telling the stories of marginalized people long dead or still alive." * Crosscut *"[Skid Road] unearths the layers of Seattle history underlying our current housing crisis. Centering long-silenced perspectives of those in the margins of society, the provocative read is informed by Ensign's own lived experience of homelessness and over three decades of her work providing primary health care to unhoused populations." * Seattle Met *
£15.19
Yale University Press A Garland of Bones Child Runaways in India Yale
Book SynopsisAn intimate portrait of India's child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, and considers histories of landlessness and debt servitude in narratives of child dislocation. The resulting work is an original perspective on the sociological trends in postcolonial India and a unique treatment of a population of individuals who live on the margin of society.
£45.12
Legacy Lit A Place Called Home
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National Academies Press A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Affordable Housing for Smart Villages
Book SynopsisThis book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rural livelihoods at both personal and community level. Developed around four intersecting themes: explaining houses and housing in rural settings; exploring affordability in the context of aspirations and vulnerability; rural development agendas involving housing and communities; and construction for resilience in rural communities, the book provides an overview of some of the little understood and sometimes counter-intuitive best practices on rural affordability and affordable housing that have emerged in developing economies over the last thirty years. Drawing on practice-based evidence this book presents innovative ideas for harnessing rural potential, and empowering rural communities with addeTable of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesLost of boxesPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Housing in rural settings3. The nature-culture determinants of rural housing4. Affordable houses5. Housing affordability6. Materials and resources in construction of affordable houses7. Global practices in rural development8. Vulnerability in rural communities9. Resilience in rural communities10. Sustained growth and development11. EpilogueIndex
£44.64
Taylor & Francis Ltd Estate Regeneration Learning from the Past
Book SynopsisOne hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to the most prolific phases of housing estate building the country has ever seen. The legacy of this historic period has been tackled for the last twenty-five years as these estates began to suffer from misguided allocation policies, systemic building and fabric failure and financial austerity. A series of estate regeneration programmes sought to rectify the mistakes of the past. Estate Regeneration describes 24 of these regeneration schemes from across the UK and the design philosophy and resident engagement which formed each new community. A number of essays from a wide range of industry experts amplify the learning experience from some key estate regeneration initiatives and provide observations on the broader issues of this sector of the housing market. Regeneration is inevitable; it is a matter of the form whTable of ContentsPart One: PioneeringEssay: The Peckham Partnership - Michael HillBrownfield EstateBow CrossSilwood Estate Tredegar EstatePart Two: PragmaticEssay: Regeneration - Brendan SarsfieldThe City MillsOrchard VillagePackington EstateParkside PlaceThe AmericasPart Three: UtopianEssay: Regeneration, turning threat into opportunity - Paul BridgeLakewoodParkside EstateDevonportOval QuarterLauriestonApple GrovePart Four: EvolutionaryEssay: Housing Regeneration, why is it so difficult? - Peter Bishop Maiden LaneAberfeldy New VillageStockwell Park EstatePark CentralSouth Kilburn EstatePart Five: VisionaryEssay: The Future - Manisha PatelPortobello SquareChobham ManorClapham ParkHigh Path Estate
£31.34
Taylor & Francis Ltd Estate Regeneration Learning from the Past
Book SynopsisOne hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to the most prolific phases of housing estate building the country has ever seen. The legacy of this historic period has been tackled for the last twenty-five years as these estates began to suffer from misguided allocation policies, systemic building and fabric failure and financial austerity. A series of estate regeneration programmes sought to rectify the mistakes of the past. Estate Regeneration describes 24 of these regeneration schemes from across the UK and the design philosophy and resident engagement which formed each new community. A number of essays from a wide range of industry experts amplify the learning experience from some key estate regeneration initiatives and provide observations on the broader issues of this sector of the housing market. Regeneration is inevitable; it is a matter of the form whTable of ContentsPart One: PioneeringEssay: The Peckham Partnership - Michael HillBrownfield EstateBow CrossSilwood Estate Tredegar EstatePart Two: PragmaticEssay: Regeneration - Brendan SarsfieldThe City MillsOrchard VillagePackington EstateParkside PlaceThe AmericasPart Three: UtopianEssay: Regeneration, turning threat into opportunity - Paul BridgeLakewoodParkside EstateDevonportOval QuarterLauriestonApple GrovePart Four: EvolutionaryEssay: Housing Regeneration, why is it so difficult? - Peter Bishop Maiden LaneAberfeldy New VillageStockwell Park EstatePark CentralSouth Kilburn EstatePart Five: VisionaryEssay: The Future - Manisha PatelPortobello SquareChobham ManorClapham ParkHigh Path Estate
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Affordable Housing Reader
Book SynopsisThis second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color.The authors highlighted in this updated volume address themes central to housing as an area of social policy and to understanding its particular meaning in the United States. These include the long history of racial exclusion and the role that public policy has played in racializing access to decent housing and well-serviced neighborhoods; the tension between the economic and social goals of housing policy; and the role that housing plays in various aspects of the lives of low- and moderate-income residents. Scholarship and the COVID-19 pandemic are raising awareness of the link between access to adequate housing and other rights and opportunities. This timely reader focuses attentTrade Review"Urgent trends—from the movement for racial justice to intensified economic inequality, back-breaking rents, climate risk, and a paradigm shift in health—have spotlighted housing and affordability in ways not seen since the 1960s. This superb compilation will help newcomers, as well as seasoned practitioners and scholars, navigate classic debates and think beyond them too."-- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution and co-author, Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty"For this new edition of The Affordable Housing Reader, editors Mueller and Tighe have assembled a superb collection of timely and essential essays by many of the field’s leading scholars. The volume frames several key debates in affordable housing policy, including its objectives and the forms it should take. "-- Alex Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States"Affordable housing is a notoriously complex field. This new edition of The Affordable Housing Reader offers an updated look at some key questions, such as how we define affordability, and the roles of race and community control in the field. It should give a substantial grounding to those who want to understand, and improve, American housing policy."-- Miriam Axel-Lute, CEO/Editor in Chief, ShelterforceTable of ContentsPART 1: CONFLICTING MOTIVATIONS FOR HOUSING POLICY 1. A citizen’s guide to public housing 2. The Housing Act of 1949 3. The evolution of low-income housing policy, 1949 to 1999 4. The Kerner Commission and Housing Policy 5. Advancing the right to housing in the United States: Using international law as a foundation PART 2: DEFINING AND MEASURING HOUSING PROBLEMS 6. What is housing affordability? The case for the residual income approach 7. How do we know when housing is “affordable”? 8. How affordable is HUD affordable housing? 9. Consequences of segregation for children’s opportunity and wellbeing 10. Home is where the harm is: Inadequate housing as a public health crisis PART 3: HOUSING TENURES 11. The grapes of rent: A history of renting in a country of owners 12. The sustainability of low-income homeownership: The incidence of unexpected costs and needed repairs among low-income homebuyers 13. Old wine in private equity bottles? Resurgence of contract‐for‐deed home sales in US urban neighborhoods 14. Making home more affordable: Community land trusts adopting cooperative ownership models to expand affordable housing PART 4: PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING 15. The quadruple bottom line and nonprofit housing organizations in the United States 16. American murder mystery revisited: Do housing voucher households cause crime? 17. From public housing to public–private housing 18. What should be the future of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program? PART 5: THE MEANING OF PLACE 19. Federal support for CDCs: Some of the history and issues of community control 20. W(h)ither the community in community land trusts? 21. CDCs in the right‐sizing city 22. Planning for empowerment: Upending the traditional approach to planning for affordable housing in the face of gentrification PART 6: PLANNING AND LAND USE 23. It’s time to end single-family zoning 24. Democracy in action? NIMBY as impediment to equitable affordable housing siting 25. Progress for whom, toward what? Progressive politics and New York City’s mandatory inclusionary housing 26. One size fits none: Local context and planning for the preservation of affordable housing PART 7: THREATS TO HOUSING SECURITY 27. Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction 28. Metropolitan segregation and the subprime lending crisis 29. Inequities in long-term housing recovery after disasters 30. Rental housing assistance and health: Evidence from the survey of income and program participation PART 8: RACE AND FAIR HOUSING 31. Whiteness and urban planning 32. The experience of racial and ethnic minorities with zoning in the United States 33. Still paying the race tax? Analyzing property values in homogeneous and mixed-race suburbs 34. The duty to affirmatively further fair housing: A legal as well as policy imperative
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shaping Neighbourhoods
Book SynopsisShaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people's health and global sustainability. This new edition retains the combination of radicalism, evidence-based advice and pragmatism that made earlier editions so popular. This updated edition strengthens guidance in relation to climate change and biodiversity, tackling crises of population health that are pushing up health-care budgets, but have elements of their origins in poor place spatial planning such as isolation, lack of everyday physical activity, and respiratory problems. It is underpinned by new research into how people use their localities, and the best way to achieve inclusive, healthy, low-carbon settlements. The guide can assist with: Understanding the principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods and towns Planning collaborative and inclusive processes forTrade Review"This latest edition of Shaping Neighbourhoods is a book that has, like all the places we love most, matured with time. The issues are thoroughly researched and the illustrations are both beautiful, yet clear and practical, making it an essential manual that should be on the desk of every mayor, local authority and others responsible for planning our towns and cities at all scales. It has a vital role to play when seeking to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. I have no doubt that it will contribute to the making of more loveable and liveable neighbourhoods."—George Ferguson CBE, People & Cities, First Elected Mayor of Bristol 2012-16, Past President Royal Institute of British Architects"This book provides a unique and refreshing approach to understanding how neighbourhoods impact population health and to identifying policy actions that can leverage the power of neighbourhoods to help us achieve health equity. One especially novel aspect of the book is how the themes of neighborhood health impacts, environmental sustainability, and equity are interwoven in ways that are insightful and that lend support for a transformative way to think about the health and environmental co-benefits of urban planning policies. The use of case studies and the global reach of the book also make it especially useful and novel. The presentation is also compelling with many figures, diagrams and visual representations. An outstanding addition to existing books on urban planning, neighborhoods, and health with a much needed environmental sustainability focus."—Ana V Diez Roux, Dean Dornsife School of Public Health, Director Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University, Philadelphia USA"Launched in the middle of a pandemic that emerged on top of an obesity epidemic and a climate emergency, this timely book provides practical guidance about how to create healthy, liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods. This is not a dress rehearsal: on our watch the world is urbanising, the population is growing, greenhouse emissions are rising, the climate is changing, biodiversity is being lost, cars are clogging and polluting our cities and chronic diseases are escalating – the impacts on human and planetary health are massive and the need for action, long overdue. We need to rethink our cities, ensuring they are underpinned by healthy, liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods - not for some, but for all. With the Hippocratic oath – first do no harm – firmly in their sight, this book equips public health professionals to work with, and advocate for, built environment professionals and sectors to adopt this edict, and critically, to undertake the integrated planning and implementation, needed to deliver the cities vitally need."—Billie Giles-Corti, Distinguished Professor and RMIT VC Professorial Fellow, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia"Shaping Neighbourhoods is a most readable and engaging book. It brings to life neighbourhoods that enhance human health, wellbeing and social sustainability while responding to the climate crisis. The wealth of evidence and case studies presented in the book facilitate the understanding of those connections and engagement around neighbourhood solutions. The reader can easily navigate to their area of need or concern and find evidence-based responses to a wide range of challenges faced by neighbourhoods, drawing on the sharp writing and good layout. A comprehensive set of issues are examined; from urban design; to what works for specific groups in the population; to planning for travel; to housing and access to services; as well as natural systems (biodiversity, energy, food). The book identifies the key issues and principles in responding to the issue in question, presenting supporting evidence and case studies of local solutions. It goes on to outline strategies that can guide the transformation process. The beauty of the author’s problem-solving approach is that it integrates social context and the links with upstream determinants of health and sustainability. I see it as systems thinking in practice, grounded and focused on the issues at stake at the neighbourhood level. As a worker in public health and a physician I see the appeal this book has for the practitioner. It speaks to the public health professional and helps envision the implementation of Health in All Policies. A very timely contribution at a moment when the pandemic is shedding light into the key role neighborhoods play in maintaining people healthy, but where the public health response has yet to fully integrate place-based solutions as part of the strategy. The book is clearly anchored in local and territorial planning, and has in-depth sensitivity, perception and understanding of how it links with health, wellbeing and sustainability issues. This is compelling reading, a success in integrated thinking for the local level and a beautiful illustration of how to locally implement high level goals such as the SDGs."—Carlos Dora, MD PhD, President of the International Society for Urban Health"The new edition of this remarkable and valuable classic book is a welcome contribution to planning and urban design theory and practice in shaping towns and neighbourhoods that deliver sustainable and healthy places for the 21st century. It is both authoritative and comprehensive and includes global as well as local concerns about climate challenges, health, economic and social issues as well as the processes through which we engage in planning and other aspects of delivering sustainable places.The book follows the same structure as the previous editions so it is easy to follow a well-known and tested format though the individual sections are updated and expanded to take into consideration the latest ecological and health crises and thinking about sustainability, health and place-making. The book is informed by relevant theories and research as well as processes and policies through which we shape our towns and neighbourhoods. Practical case studies are well-chosen and selected from UK and international locations that demonstrate original and innovative approaches to solving problems.The book is beautifully produced with crisp and informative writing style, excellent graphic illustrations, photographs and useful diagrams and check-lists. The authors of the book bring in their own expertise whilst also connecting to other authoritative sources and shared common ground concerns and debates. This latest edition will be invaluable to built environment and health professionals, politicians, developers, civic and community groups as well as students and academia."—Georgia Butina Watson, Professor of Urban Design, School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University"Building on the solid foundations of its predecessors, this completely revised and updated third edition of Shaping Neighbourhoods is an essential guide for planning and public health practitioners, researchers and teachers alike. Not only does it bring to the fore the most recent research evidence for sustainable, equitable and health supportive local environments, it showcases international case studies illustrating successful on-the-ground implementation of the principles espoused throughout. This new edition of Shaping Neighbourhoods contextualises the critical lessons of the COVID Pandemic, particularly the key role that the local environment plays in community health and wellbeing. Interdisciplinary ways-of-working are championed, with clear guidance for decision-makers across health and urban planning to create a better world for all life on our planet.Heartfelt congratulations to authors Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Richard Guise whose combined expertise, principled commitment and personal passion for the messages in this book shine through!"—Susan Thompson, Professor of Planning and Head, City Wellbeing Program, City Futures Research Centre, School of the Built Environment, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia"The third edition of Shaping Neighbourhoods provides comprehensive guidance to how an inclusive planning, design and management process can contribute to making neighbourhoods healthy and sustainable. The book addresses a wide spectrum of topics: community engagement, sustainability, neighbourhood planning, spatial planning and place-making.The importance of the health and well-being of communities is increasingly being recognised as a key element to counter the challenges of climate change, ecological emergencies and global pandemics. The message of the book is clear: we need to put enhanced health equity, social well-being and neighbourhood sustainability strategies at the heart of urban planning.The book is an essential reference manual for built environment and health professionals, students and community leaders. It distils, based on extensive research of international best practice, strategies to achieve healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods. The range and quality of the information, illustrated by superb diagrams and photographs, will make this excellent publication an essential reference for all those with an interest and involvement in a healthy and sustainable future for our urban environments."—Tony Reddy Chair, Academy of Urbanism Table of ContentsChapter 1. Orientation and PrinciplesChapter 2. A Neighbourhood Planning ProcessChapter 3. Providing for Local NeedChapter 4. Working With Natural SystemsChapter 5. Neighbourhood StrategyChapter 6. Neighbourhood Design and Placemaking
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Taylor & Francis Introduction to Housing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transforming Social Housing
Book SynopsisThe recent global crisis exposed vulnerabilities of housing markets pointing to the need to build resilience through better policy tools and sustainable provision of social housing. In the context of fiscal austerity, social housing is affected by changing politics, privatization and concentration of urban poverty. Transforming Social Housing: International Perspectives explores the differences and similarities in housing policies and practices by focusing on social housing institutions and their ability to influence affordability and quality of housing. The focus is on private and not-for-profit provision in mixed-income developments supported through partnerships and a mix of policy instruments.The book brings together contributions by leading scholars on key debates affecting social housing in cities around the world. The international perspectives provide an interdisciplinary, robust overview of complex processes of change affecting people, places and homes. It is Table of Contents1. Social housing transformation: Policy and institutional landscapes Sasha Tsenkova2. Social Rented Housing in the (Dis)United Kingdom: Can Different Social Housing Regime Types Exist within the Same Nation State?Mark Stephens3. Quantifying a century of state intervention in rental housing in GermanyKonstantin A. Kholodilin4.The Role of Nonprofits in Meeting the Housing Challenge in the United StatesRachel G. Bratt5. The organizational challenges of mixed-income development: privatizing public housing through cross-sector collaborationMark L. Joseph, Robert J. Chaskin, Amy T. Khare and Jung-Eun Kim6. Non-profit housing, a tool for metropolitan cohesion? The case of the Vienna–Bratislava regionAurore Meyfroidt7. Moving towards age-inclusive public housing in SingaporeBelinda Yuen8. Transformative change: energy-efficiency and social housing retrofits in Canadian citiesSasha Tsenkova
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Right to a Decent House
Originally published in 1976, this book highlights the problems faced by many inner-city working class communities in 1970s Britain, with particular reference to the Gairbraid housing clearance area of Maryhill, Glasgow. It examines the policy of local authority re-housing. Both the policy and practice of re-housing is carefully analysed and the efficacy of community action illustrated and discussed.
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Taylor & Francis Windows
Book SynopsisIn Windows: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the history, dating, development, care, repair and conservation of windows by authors who are experts in their fields. Each chapter covers a different aspect of the subject, from the dating of windows and their separate parts, through to surveying and engineering, recording and curation of historic windows, their ironmonger and surrounds.As this book shows, windows vary in complexity and form, from the very simplest glazed openings to intricate medieval stained-glass masterpieces, combining the work of stone masons, smiths, woodworkers, glaziers, and artists. This book traces the history of windows and provides guidance on their upkeep and conservation. It is thus an essential reference work for all those involved in care of historic buildings.Windows: History, Repair and Conservation was the first major book devoted to the understanding of windows. This new revised edition brings the book up to date and provides additional chapters to provide a complete overview of the subject that will inform research and practice for years to come.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Property Rights and Climate Change Land use under
Book SynopsisProperty Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens of land use planning. The inherent assumption pursued is that the different types of environmental changes, with their particular effects and impact on land use, share common issues regarding the relation between the social construction of land via property rights and the dynamics of a changing environment. Making these common issues explicit and discussing the different approaches to them is the central objective of this book. Through examining a variety of cases from the Arctic to the Australian coast, the contributors take a transdisciplinary look at the winners and losers of climate change, discuss approaches to dealing with changing environmental conditions, aTable of Contents1 Introduction1.1 Changing environmental conditions, property rights and land-use planningFennie van StraalenThomas HartmannJohn Sheehan2 Part 1. Impacts in changing contexts2.1 Climate change induced property re-evaluation in agrarian contextsSony PellisseryPraveena Sridhar2.2 The challenges with voluntary resettlement processes as a need under changing climate conditionsThomas Thaler3 Part 2. Theoretical notions3.1 18th century property rights for 21st century environmental conditions?Harvey M. Jacobs3.2 Climate change and property rights changesDušan Nikolić4 Part 3. Information and land values4.1 To reveal or not to reveal? The impact of mapping environmental conditions on property rights in TaiwanTzuyuan Stessa ChaoYun Chou4.2 Costs and benefits: Why Economic quantification in hazard mitigation policy threatens culture in coastal LouisianaMelanie Sand4.3 Redistribution of property rights in response to climate change in Ghana, West AfricaKei OtsukiGodfred Seidu Jasaw5 Part 4. Formal rules5.1 Formal Instruments to Address Environmental Changes and Property RightsJesse J. Richardson, Jr.5.2 The role of judges in using the common law to address climate changePeter A. Buchsbaum6 Part 5. Financial responsibility6.1 Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Local Government in New South Wales, Australia: Old and New Law and Old BarDr Andrew H KellyJasper Brown6.2 Property rights for insurance markets to enable adaptation to natural disaster risksW.J. Wouter Botzen7 Conclusion7.1 The social construction of changing environmental conditionsThomas HartmannFennie van StraalenJohn SheehanIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Growing Trend of Living Small
Book SynopsisThis book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds. Small spaces have become big business. Reducing the size of our homes, and the amount of stuff within them, is increasingly sold as a catch-all solution to the stresses of modern life and the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Shrinking living space is being repackaged in a neoliberal capitalist context as a lifestyle choice rather than the consequence of diminishing choice in the face of what has become a long-term housing crisis'. What does this mean for how we live in the long term, and is there a dark side to the promise of a simpler, more sustainable home life? Shrinking Domesticities brings together research from across the social sciences, planning and architecture to explore these issues. From co-living developments to the Tiny House Movement, self-storage units to practices of de-stuffification', and dTable of ContentsIntroduction;1 Co-living Housing-as-a-Service and COVID-19: Micro-housing and Institutional Precarity-Tegan Bergan & Rae Dufty-Jones; 2 Shifting Domesticities in the Metropole Hotel-Jeffrey Kruth; 3 Political Narratives of Shrinking Domesticities in Helsinki and Vienna-Johanna Lilius, Michael Friesenecker & Maximilian Krankl;4 Shrinking aspirations: the potential impact of Build to Rent models on housing transitions-Daniel Durrant & Frances Brill; 5 Glamorising the materiality of ‘living small’: De-stuffocation, storage, and tiny living aesthetics-Jen Owen; 6 Freedom or dispossession? Imaginaries of small, mobile living in the film Nomadland-Harris, E., Nowicki, M. and White, T.; 7 Decent Homes in Compact Living? Conventional Ideals in Unconventional Contexts-Anne Hedegaard Winther; 8 The Tiny Home Lifestyle (THL): A contemporary response to the neoliberalisation of housing-Megan Carras; 9 Understanding tiny house sustainabilities through the lens of frictions-Hilton Penfold., Gordon Waitt and Pauline McGuirk; 10 Meshing with Your Home: Seeking trouble in sharing dwelled spaces-Lauren Wagner & Clemens Driessen; 11 Minimalist lifestyles: Performance, animism and desire for degrowth-Miriam Meissner; 12 Tiny Houses and the Economics of Sufficiency: How ‘Shrinking Domesticities’ fit within the Degrowth Paradigm-Samuel Alexander and Heather Shearer; 13 Tiny Living as an Everyday Practice of Sufficiency: Some Experiences of Tiny House Owners in Germany-Petra Lütke & Louisa Elbracht; 14 The Tiny House Movement: Ecology, survival and inequality-Jenny Pickerill, Adam Barker & Jingjing Wang; 15 Cluster apartments: living with less as model for lived solidarity?-Manuel Lutz; 16 Heterotopia: A New Perspective on Female-led Tiny House Projects-Alice Wilson; Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Urban Phantasmagorias
Book SynopsisUrban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book explores the manner in which the socialist state reconfigured the city through concrete acts of demolition and construction, as well as indirectly through legal frameworks aimed at the regulation of womenâs reproductive agency, in an attempt to materialize its idea of modernity. It follows the effects of this state agenda with a focus on the period between 1965 and 1989 through an investigation of the transformations, representations, meanings, and uses of domestic spaces. The book draws on Walter Benjaminâs concept of phantasmagoria, which provides a critical framework through which it articulates the dynamic relationship between ideology, architecture, and everyday practices, and reassesses their impact upon individual subjectivity and agency. The woman emerges as a central subject of the book, upon whom the phantasmagoric effeTrade Review"This book offers an original history of socialist Bucharest, Romania, between 1965 and 1989. It addresses housing as gendered infrastructure, delivering ‘communist modernity’ through the control of domestic life and maternity. Yet what was the subjective response to these transformations? How do we as scholars access them? By drawing on Walter Benjamin’s account of urban phantasmagoria and moving between archives, interviews, art and film, Statica produces an extraordinarily rich analysis of how (female) subjects experienced, imagined, and responded to socialist modernization – as fragmented and conflictual – a brilliant account relevant to all scholars of twentieth-century housing and urbanism."Barbara Penner, Professor of Architectural Humanities, UCL"Urban Phantasmagorias is Iulia Statica’s theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich examination of how the infrastructures of communist modernity in Bucharest produced a specific female subject. Collectively imagined as workers, wives, and mothers, women in Ceaușescu’s Romania found their bodies and identities colonized by a state willing to aggressively expropriate their productive and reproductive labor. This process was accelerated by deliberate projects to nuclearize the traditional extended family through an architectural reimagining of urban living. Especially fascinating are the thick descriptions of typical communist homes and the ways that physical spaces shaped Romanian women’s ideas of "modern" domesticities."Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania"In this masterly and well-argued Urban Phantasmagorias, Iulia Statica does more than unveiling the layers and fragments of Bucharest’s communist modernity and domesticities. She turns Walter Benjamin and, in the process, urban theory upside down, by juxtaposing Benjamin’s musing on urban Paris, on the one hand, and on the other, Bucharest longing for a future modernity, which is already our past, and a past Statica carefully reaches through a critical archeology of urban fragmentation."António Tomás, University of Johannesburg, author of In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda Table of Contents1. Phantasmagoria: From West to East 2. Between Orientalism and Modernity: Urban and Domestic Topographies 3. Communist Bucharest 4. Urban Phantasmagorias 5. Gender, Maternity and the Modern Communist Home 6. The Phantasmagoria of the Communist Interior
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Random House USA Inc The Working Poor Invisible in America Vintage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Design Quality in New Housing Learning from the
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing. The wider implications of policy and design are examined through a series of case studies of new housing projects in the UK and the Netherlands. Dutch interdisciplinary design and modern methods of construction are widely considered to be of the highest quality from which much can be learned and understood. This new guide offers architects the best practice for the design, policy and construction of new homes. The author considers proposals for the Thames Gateway and government incentives to create better quality housing, including the 60,000 house and design reviews. The wider implications of skills and training of architects, planners, design professionals and those parties involved in housing are also addressed. Table of ContentsPart 1: Design Quality in the Netherlands 1. Design Quality in Dutch Housing 2. Case Studies of New Housing in the Netherlands Part 2: Design Quality in the United Kingdom 3. Design Quality in Housing in the United Kingdom 4. Case Studies of New Housing in the UK 5. Low and High-Rise Doll's Houses and Dan Dare Steel and Glass Towers? Design Quality in the Thames Gateway Part 3: Learning from the Netherlands, Design Quality in New Housing in the UK and the Netherlands 6. Findings and Recommendations of Design Quality in the UK and in the Netherlands
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Microstructures of Housing Markets
Book SynopsisHouse prices and mortgage debt have moved to centre stage in the management of national economies, regional development and neighbourhood change. Describing, analysing and understanding how housing markets work within and across these scales of economy and society has never been more urgent. But much more is known about the macro-scales than the microstructures; and about the economic rather than social drivers of housing market dynamics. This book redresses the balance. It shows that housing markets are social, cultural and psychological â as well as economic â affairs. This multidisciplinary approach is helpful in understanding the economic staples of supply, demand, price and information. It also casts new light on the emotional and political economy of markets.Table of Contents1. Introduction Susan J. Smith and Moira Munro 2. Microeconomic Perspectives on the Structure and Operation of Local Housing Markets Craig Watkins 3. Understanding Neighbourhood Housing Markets: Regional Context, Disequilibrium, Sub-markets and Supply Glen Bramley Chris Leishman and David Watkins 4. ‘Doing Deals on the House’ in a ‘Post-welfare’ Society: Evidence of Micro-Market Practices from Britain and the USA Helen Jarvis 5. Between Investment, Asset and Use Consumption: The Meanings of Homeownership in Japan Richard Ronald 6. Knowing the Market? Understanding and Performing York’s Housing Alison Wallace 7. Influences and Emotions: Exploring Family Decision-making Processes when Buying a House Deborah Levy, Laurence Murphy and Christina K.C. Lee 8. The Effect of Consumers’ Expectations in a Booming Housing Market: Space-time Patterns in the Netherlands, 1999–2000 Jan Rouwendal and Simonetta Longhi 9. Rhetoric in the Language of Real Estate Marketing Gwilym Pryce and Sarah Oates 10. Calculated Affection? Charting the Complex Economy of Home Purchase Moira Munro and Susan J. Smith
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Taylor & Francis Housing Design Quality
Book SynopsisThis book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders.In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design Quality focuses on this role and in particular on how the various policy instruments available to public authorities can be used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential developments.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Context for Delivering Quality 1. Housing Design Quality and Control: The Need for Research Inset 1. Essex County Council - The 'New' Essex Guide 2. Residential Design Control: History and Government Guidance up to 1997 Inset 2. Suffolk County Council - A New Generation Guide 3. The Design Debate and a New Framework for Control Inset 3. Cotswold District Council - Advocating a 'Cotswold Style' 4. The Speculative House: Product and Process Inset 4. North Norfolk District Council - Guiding Negotiation 5. The Fundamentals of Controlling Design Inset 5. Dacorum Borough Council - The Character Area Approach Part 2: Current Practice and Innovation in Control 6. Bridging the Professional Divide Inset 6. London Borough of Harrow - Achieving Suburban Distinctiveness 7. Residential Design Policy and Guidance: A Snapshot of Practice in the 1990s Inset 7. Manchester City Council - Hulme, The 'Design Code' Approach 8. Innovation in the Control of Residential Design Inset 8. Wycombe District Council - Development Briefing for Housing Part 3: The Challenge for Control 9. An Agenda for Delivering Housing Quality Inset 9: West Dorset District Council - The Footprint Solution 10. Towards a Residential Renaissance Inset 10. Sedgemoor District Council - Negotiating Quality Appendices Bibliography Index
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Penguin Putnam Inc Hand to Mouth
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University of California Press Down on Their Luck A Study of Homeless Street
Book SynopsisShows us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. This title reveals who the homeless are, how they live, and why they have ended up on the streets. It sketches a portrait of men and women who are highly adaptive, resourceful, and pragmatic.Table of ContentsPreface PART ONE INTRODUCTION 1. Studying the Homeless 2. A Grounded Typology of Homeless Street People PART TWO LIFE ON THE STREETS: DAILY ROUTINES AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES 3. The Subculture of Street Life 4. Wage Labor and Institutionalized Assistance 5. Shadow Work 6. Tenuous Ties 7. Salvaging the Self PART THREE DYNAMICS OF HOMELESSNESS 8. Pathways to the Street 9. Homeless Careers Epilogue Notes References Index
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University of California Press Righteous Dopefiend
Book SynopsisIntroduces the reader to the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. This work develops a cast of characters around the themes of violence, race relations, sexuality, family trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality and power relations.Trade Review"A deeply nuanced picture of a population that cannot escape social reprobation, but deserves social inclusion... The collage of case studies, field notes, personal narratives and photography is nothing short of enthralling." - Starred Review Publishers Weekly "Get this book and read it... A hell of a story... These people walk by you every day and should not remain invisible." San Francisco Bay Guardian "Leaders and readers alike should pay attention to - and heed its warnings and advice... Unflinching and objective... Must be read - and seen." San Francisco Chronicle "The authors dare you to ignore the subculture in their field notes and arresting black-and-white images, urging that our failed social systems need repairing and we cannot continue to let these outliers remain invisible." Utne "Recommended." Choice "One of the most original and important works of its kind... A pathbreaking photo-ethnography, powerful in presentation, content and scope... A must-read, [it] will rock the world of the sheltered middle class and shed new light on the pervasive structural inequalities plaguing contemporary society." -- Elijah Anderson, author of Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Philadelphia Inquirer "Truly remarkable book." -- Grazyna Zajdow Arena Magazine "Powerfully candid." Zocalo (The Public Square Blog) "With a combination of photographs, dialogue, field notes and critical theory, the book provides a detailed analysis of the social structure of an underground society in contemporary America." Roof Magazine "This book offers as complete and disturbing a view as can be had of just how awful and intractable street life in San Francisco can get." San Francisco ChronicleTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Theory of Lumpen Abuse 1. Intimate Apartheid 2. Falling in Love 3. A Community of Addicted Bodies 4. Childhoods 5. Making Money 6. Parenting 7. Male Love 8. Everyday Addicts 9. Treatment Conclusion: Critically Applied Public Anthropology References Notes on the Photographs Acknowledgments
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University of California Press The Social Question in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness:first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the giant evils while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question has made a comeback.The Social Questionin the Twenty-First Century maps out the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified Social Question as a labor issue above all. The volume includes discussions from every corner of the globe, focusing on American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. The effects of capitalis
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University of California Press Where Shall We Live
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University of California Press Trapped in a Maze
Book SynopsisTrapped in a Maze provides a window into families'lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.Trade Review"In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty." * American Journal of Sociology *
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University of California Press Trapped in a Maze
Book SynopsisTrapped in a Maze provides a window into families'lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that involvement with one institution could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in between several systems with no clear path to resolution. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.Trade Review"In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty." * American Journal of Sociology *
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University of California Press How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness
Book SynopsisCreative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of people experiencing homelessness within cities. Four dedicated experts with first-hand experience profile ten citiesBogota, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Edmonton, Paris, and Athensto explore ideas, strategies, successes, and failures. Together they bring an array of government, nonprofit, and academic perspectives to offer a truly global perspective. The authors answer essential questions about the nature and causes of homelessness and analyze how cities have used innovation and local political coordination to address this pervasive problem. Ten Global Cities will be an invaluable resource not only for students of policy and social work but for municipal, regional, and national policymakers; nonprofit service providers; community advocates and activists; and all citizens who want to collaborate for real change. These authors argue that homelessness is not an insurmountable social condition, and their examples show that cities and individuals working in coordination can lead the charge for better outcomes. Trade Review"The book is a valuable resource for those interested in how cities have succeeded in tackling some of the causes and consequences of homelessness. . . . It offers a refreshing hands-on contribution that not only identifies the problems around homelessness but, crucially, provides specific examples and evidence from many different settings about what can be done to overcome it." * LSE Review of Books *"Its real-world examples provide digestible and valuable information to the public—especially to advocates who are beginning a vocation in the field. . . . The book demonstrates that, thanks to the passion and determination of homeless-service system actors, innovative approaches in outreach and housing-first models have emerged and been successful." * Stanford Social Innovation Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Can Cities Solve Global Homelessness? 1. The Transformation of Homeless Services 2. Engaging People on the Streets 3. Sheltering Options That Work 4. Developing an Affordable Housing Strategy 5. Supportive Housing to Target Complex Needs 6. Prevention That Works 7. Systems-Level Thinking 8. Engaging the Community 9. Understanding the Homeless System: Street Counts, By-Name Lists, Agency Databases, and Basic Research 10. Managing for Results: Performance Management and Modeling 11. Managing in Emergencies Conclusion: Lessons for Other Cities—It Can Be Done Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press How Ten Global Cities Take on Homelessness
Book SynopsisCreative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of people experiencing homelessness within cities. Four dedicated experts with first-hand experience profile ten citiesBogota, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Edmonton, Paris, and Athensto explore ideas, strategies, successes, and failures. Together they bring an array of government, nonprofit, and academic perspectives to offer a truly global perspective. The authors answer essential questions about the nature and causes of homelessness and analyze how cities have used innovation and local political coordination to address this pervasive problem. Ten Global Cities will be an invaluable resource not only for students of policy and social work but for municipal, regional, and national policymakers; nonprofit service providers; community advocates and activists; and all citizens who want to collaborate for real change. These authors argue that homelessness is not an insurmountable social condition, and their examples show that cities and individuals working in coordination can lead the charge for better outcomes. Trade Review"The book is a valuable resource for those interested in how cities have succeeded in tackling some of the causes and consequences of homelessness. . . . It offers a refreshing hands-on contribution that not only identifies the problems around homelessness but, crucially, provides specific examples and evidence from many different settings about what can be done to overcome it." * LSE Review of Books *"Its real-world examples provide digestible and valuable information to the public—especially to advocates who are beginning a vocation in the field. . . . The book demonstrates that, thanks to the passion and determination of homeless-service system actors, innovative approaches in outreach and housing-first models have emerged and been successful." * Stanford Social Innovation Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Can Cities Solve Global Homelessness? 1. The Transformation of Homeless Services 2. Engaging People on the Streets 3. Sheltering Options That Work 4. Developing an Affordable Housing Strategy 5. Supportive Housing to Target Complex Needs 6. Prevention That Works 7. Systems-Level Thinking 8. Engaging the Community 9. Understanding the Homeless System: Street Counts, By-Name Lists, Agency Databases, and Basic Research 10. Managing for Results: Performance Management and Modeling 11. Managing in Emergencies Conclusion: Lessons for Other Cities—It Can Be Done Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press Where Shall We Live
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University of California Press Moving the Needle
Book SynopsisThis timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America's most vulnerable households. Most research on poverty focuses on the damage caused by persistent unemployment. But what happens when jobs are plentiful and workers are hard to come by? Moving the Needle examines how very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, improves benefits, lengthens job ladders, and pulls the unemployed into a booming job market. Drawing on over seventy years of quantitative data, as well as interviews with employers, jobseekers, and longtime residents of poor neighborhoods, Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs investigate the most durable positive consequences of tight labor markets. They also consider the downside of overheated economies that can ignite surging rents and spur outmigration.Moving the Needle is an urgent and original call to implement policies that will maintain the current momentum and prepare for potential slowdowns that may lie ahead.Trade Review"Astute and timely . . . . This is a valuable resource for activists, scholars, and policymakers on the front lines of the battle to end poverty." * Publishers Weekly * "Overall, then, Moving the Needle provides a compelling account of the dynamics of tight labor markets with broad relevance to scholars of work and poverty, very broadly defined, and it serves as a useful model for a wide range of social science research." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents List of Tables, Figures, and Maps Introduction 1. The Dynamics of Tight Labor Markets 2. What Lasts? Durable Effects of Tight Labor Markets 3. Matching Up: How Employers Adapt to Tight Labor Markets 4. Leaning on Intermediaries 5. Entering from the Edge 6. Declining Drama 7. Family and Fortune 8. Policy Lessons from Tight Labor Markets Appendixes Personal and Institutional Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Houghton Mifflin 200 a Day Living on Almost Nothing in America
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Random House USA Inc Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which noth
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Random House USA Inc Evicted
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Faber & Faber Under the Hornbeams
Book Synopsis''Reading it feels like slowing down to take a breath'' - EVENING STANDARD''Open-air theatre between two covers, powered by strength of character and beautiful writing.'' - NICHOLAS CRANE''A stunning book. Soulful and honest, it is a riveting, original story about friendship, freedom and the lives we share.'' - TIFFANY WATT SMITH*I'm not homeless: this is my home!'Nick points to the branches of the hornbeam under which we are standing, its leaves still glistening in the aftermath of the morning rain. On one of the lower branches sits a robin, joining our conversation. It seems to be saying: Why should anyone want to leave this place?Nick and Pascal live and sleep outside in central London. They are an unusual duo: Nick is an avid reader of history and philosophy able to converse on any topic; Pascal is quiet, spending much of his time lying still, communicating silently with birds and animals. They
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Not Stated Invisible Child
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland ElegiesONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library JournalIn Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s chil
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Diversified Publishing Poverty by America
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023: The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus ReviewsThe United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Housing Economics and Public Policy
Book SynopsisThis book is a timely assessment of 20 years of progress in the field of housing economics and its application to policy and practice. Two decades on from the publication of Duncan Maclennan's influential Housing Economics, 16 leading housing experts - both academics and policy makers from across the world - now honour Maclennan's contributions.Trade Review'this remarkable collection of chapters by leading housing experts provides a wealth of comment and information' Building Engineer July 2003 'Thought -provoking... it offers a robust assessment of the role of economics in planning' Urban Studies, July 2004 'I heartily recommend a read' Bruce Duncan, Chair RICS Regeneration Forum 'An excellent and varied book which offers a well-documented and fairly comprehensive view of the current insights of housing economists. Recommended reading for economists, policy officals and academics.' International Planning Studies, Feb 2004Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Urban Housing Models 22 Segmentation, Adjustment and Disequilibrium 38 Transactions Costs and Housing Markets 56 Hedonic Pricing Models: A Selective and Applied Review 67 Housing, Random Walks, Complexity and The Macroeconomy 90 Taxation, Subsidies and Housing Markets 110 The Economics of Social Housing 135 Neighbourhood Dynamics and Housing Markets 153 Access To Home Ownership In The United States: The Impact Of Changing Perspectives On Constraints To Tenure Choice 172 Planning Regulation and Housing Supply In A Market System 193 Economics and Housing Planning 218 The Right To Buy In Britain 235 The Political Economy of Housing Research 248 Policy and Academia: An Assessment 268 References 283 Index 319
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Harvard University Press The Homeless
Book SynopsisHow widespread is homelessness, how did it happen, and what can be done about it? These are the questions explored by Christopher Jencks, America's foremost analyst of social problems in a book that defies much commonly accepted wisdom.Trade ReviewIn his new book, Christopher Jencks sets out to bring clarity and sense to the public debate. He systematically reviews and evaluates a large body of research literature on the homeless and, in less than 200 pages of tersely written and tightly argued text, he deftly leads the reader through a maze of assertions… He writes lucidly and compellingly and, what is more, he does not pull his punches… The Homeless is undoubtedly a major achievement… [Jencks’] findings defy not only the wisdom of the average sidewalk sociologist, but also the arguments of many established researchers… The Homeless, with its challenging findings, is a bold book… Mr. Jencks, with his masterly exposition of complex data and his discriminating, well-balanced assessments, goes a long way toward restoring confidence in the capacity of the social sciences to transcend politically loaded policy analysis. He also goes a long way toward restoring a modicum of realism to public debate. -- Brigitte Berger * New York Times Book Review *Jencks…subjects the various explanations of homelessness to rigorous analysis. Much conventional wisdom withers under his scrutiny… Jencks’s thinking is guided by a zeal for the truth that has been sadly lacking in homelessness policy over the past decade. -- Heather MacDonald * Wall Street Journal *Jencks is a savvy and clear-thinking policy analyst… An honest and illuminating portrait of homelessness in America… [A] superb book. -- Douglas J. Besharov * Washington Post Book World *Because homelessness has become so politicised, its possible causes and cures the battleground of lobbies, the true nature of the problem has been lost in an ideological blur. This readable and relentlessly logical book…successfully strips away the dogma. * The Economist *Clear, unclouded by political preconceptions and rigorously logical, Jencks takes a much needed fresh look at debates that generally yield more heat than light… By the end of the book, even readers who disagree with his conclusions will feel thoroughly educated about one of America’s most pressing social problems. -- Philip Kasinitz * Newsday *Much of this concise text is taken up evaluating the validity of claims made by liberals and conservatives as to the causes of the ’80s homelessness epidemic… No previous work, to my knowledge, has tried so assiduously to winnow fact from rhetoric in so many complex policy realms. -- Kathleen Hirsch * Boston Sunday Globe *How is it that a 57-year-old sociology professor can transcend hyped-up numbers, ideological cant, and government obfuscation to tell us roughly how many homeless there are and where they come from? Our biggest and best news organizations have been unable to perform this simple task for nearly fifteen years. -- Jon Katz * New York Magazine *A thoughtful analysis of homelessness… Jencks’ concessions to political realities will make his study controversial. -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *Table of ContentsThe Numbers 1. Counting the Homeless 2. Estimating the Increase Promising Explanations 3. Emptying the Back Wards 4. The Crock Epidemic S. Jobs and Marriage 6. The Destruction of Skid Row Less-Promising Explanations 7. Social Skills and Family Ties 8. Changes in the Housing Market 9. Budget Cuts and Rent Control Reversing the Trend 10. Do Shelters Cause Homelessness? 11. Some Partial Solutions Appendix 1: Derivation of Tables 1 and 2 Appendix 2: Supplementary Tables Notes
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Princeton University Press At the Heart of Freedom
Book SynopsisHow can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? This book argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a far more radical project: achieving freedom. It explores what it would mean for women politically, legally, and culturally, if we took this freedom seriously.Trade Review"This work unabashedly focuses on the individual and stresses the freedom of each as a sexual being... A valuable study."--Gayle Binion, Political TheoryTable of ContentsPreface: The Imaginary DomainAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: Feminism, Justice, and Sexual Freedom3Ch. 2Freed Up: Privacy, Sexual Freedom, and Liberty of Conscience33Ch. 3Nature, Gender, and Equivalent Evaluation of Sexual Difference66Ch. 4Adoption and Its Progeny: Rethinking Family Law, Gender, and Sexual Difference96Ch. 5What and How Maketh a Father? Equality versus Conscription131Ch. 6Troubled Legacies: Human Rights, Imperialism, and Women's Freedom151Ch. 7Feminism, Utopianism, and the Role of the Ideal in Political Philosophy174Notes187Bibliography233Index245
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