Housing law Books
Rowman & Littlefield The Homeowners Association Manual
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£11.69
NUS Press The Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The
Book SynopsisExamines the ways Singapore’s impressive public housing program is central to the political legitimacy of the city-state’s single-party regime, and the growing contradictions of its success. The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the People's Action Party began to deliver on its promises. By the 1980s, 85% of the population had been rehoused in modern flats. Now, decades later, the provision of public housing shapes Singapore's environment. The standard accounts of this remarkable transformation leave many questions unanswered, from the historical to urgent matters of current policy. Why was housing such a priority in the 1960s? How did the provision of social welfare via public housing shape Singapore's industrialization and development over the last 50 years? Looking forward, can the HDB continue to be both a source of affordable housing for young families and a mechanism for retirement savings? What will happen when 99-year leases expire?Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation is a culmination of Chua Beng Huat's study of Singapore's public housing system, its dynamics, and the ways it functions in Singapore's politics. The book will be of interest to citizens and to scholars of the political economy of Asian development, social welfare provision, and Singapore.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Why Singapore Prioritizes Public Housing?Chapter Two: Current State of Housing Provision Across Different SystemsChapter Three: The National Public Housing ProgramChapter Four: From Necessary Accommodation to Market CommodityChapter Five: Public Housing as Retirement AssetChapter Six: Residual Housing for Residual PeopleChapter Seven: Politics and Public Housing Ownership: From Clients to Entitled Citizens of the StateBibliographyIndex
£26.31
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Servants of the Damned
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£15.19
Columbia University Press How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and
Book SynopsisFocusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.Trade ReviewPaige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful real estate developers long before the era of mass suburbanization. An essential text for understanding and grappling with the inequalities embedded within today’s metropolitan landscapes. -- Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaThis book is a remarkable achievement. Glotzer tells an eye-opening story about how real estate developers shaped a racially segregated Baltimore—and through their influence and example, the larger United States. By following the paper trail, we learn that racially prejudiced homeowners and government policymakers were not solely to blame, but rather were operating with a rulebook written by capitalist real estate interests who tied profits to racial exclusion for more than a century. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeIn How the Suburbs Were Segregated, Glotzer offers a fresh and original history of suburban real estate development. Uncovering land ownership patterns and financing strategies in north Baltimore since the early nineteenth century, Glotzer tells the story of racial exclusion and residential segregation as it has never been told. -- Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the BayGlotzer tackles a complicated subject with nuance and an attention to detail that is remarkable. While there are many highly acclaimed books on the history of housing segregation and racial exclusion in suburbia, none of these have approached the topic from the perspective of developers and capital investors, much less followed the money, in the way Glotzer has. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Flows2. Infrastructure3. Boundaries4. Standards5. Policies6. AdaptationsConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and
Book SynopsisFocusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.Trade ReviewPaige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful real estate developers long before the era of mass suburbanization. An essential text for understanding and grappling with the inequalities embedded within today’s metropolitan landscapes. -- Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaThis book is a remarkable achievement. Glotzer tells an eye-opening story about how real estate developers shaped a racially segregated Baltimore—and through their influence and example, the larger United States. By following the paper trail, we learn that racially prejudiced homeowners and government policymakers were not solely to blame, but rather were operating with a rulebook written by capitalist real estate interests who tied profits to racial exclusion for more than a century. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeIn How the Suburbs Were Segregated, Glotzer offers a fresh and original history of suburban real estate development. Uncovering land ownership patterns and financing strategies in north Baltimore since the early nineteenth century, Glotzer tells the story of racial exclusion and residential segregation as it has never been told. -- Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the BayGlotzer tackles a complicated subject with nuance and an attention to detail that is remarkable. While there are many highly acclaimed books on the history of housing segregation and racial exclusion in suburbia, none of these have approached the topic from the perspective of developers and capital investors, much less followed the money, in the way Glotzer has. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Flows2. Infrastructure3. Boundaries4. Standards5. Policies6. AdaptationsConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£21.25
MIT Press Ltd What a City Is For MIT Press Remaking the
Book SynopsisAn investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space—not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina—the one major Black neighborhood in Portland—has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. S
£16.19
Little Brown and Company Plundered
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£24.38
Faber & Faber Property
Book SynopsisA powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. In Britain, it has led to a new class division between those who own and those who don't. Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century enclosures to the present day. It tells powerful stories of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurgaon in India, of the struggles to form Black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the impacts of Margaret Thatcher's property-owning democracy. Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes as investments and it offers hope for how things could be bett
£13.49
Princeton University Press The Voucher Promise
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Paul Davidoff Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Social Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association""An engaging read. Most compellingly, Rosen offers a moving psychological portrait of her interlocutors, revealing how people cope with neighborhood change and reconcile limited opportunities and chronic disappointments."---Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader"Rosen’s ethnographic study helps to correct a weak point in the literature on the HCV program. . . . The Voucher Promise provides a look at the HCV program from many perspectives including the participating voucher households and the renter households not lucky enough to receive a voucher. The book studies the landlords who choose to participate as well as those who do not. Finally, the book explores the households, especially long-term homeowners, who populate the neighborhoods where the HCV voucher households locate. This mix of perspectives is the strength of the book."---Kirk McClure, Social Forces"This work, although a valuable contribution to the sociology literature, is also an important book for urban planners and policy scholars and practitioners. Rosen has managed the difficult task of creating rigorous research that is highly critical of an important federal program but at the same time recognized how vital the program is to the lives of so many economically fragile families. . . . a must read for anyone interested in housing markets and housing policy. It is refreshingly well written and at the same time highly substantive."---Dan Immergluck, Journal of the American Planning Association"A fine study with important insights for scholars and practitioners, regardless of their disciplinary leanings. Readers may find themselves comparing [The Voucher Promise] favorably to the highly acclaimed Evicted: Poverty and Poverty in the American City by Matthew Desmond."---Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Planning Education and Research"[Rosen] bring[s] to the table workable and much needed suggestions for changes to a flawed policy."---Lisa Lucile Owens, Critical Sociology"The Voucher Promise provides an informative, in-depth, and necessary look into the policy and practice of the HCV program clearly identifying a need to reassess the way it currently operates. . . . [A]n essential read for policymakers, urban sociologists, and scholars."---Jeanne Kimpel, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
£19.80
Princeton University Press The Voucher Promise
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Paul Davidoff Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Social Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association""An engaging read. Most compellingly, Rosen offers a moving psychological portrait of her interlocutors, revealing how people cope with neighborhood change and reconcile limited opportunities and chronic disappointments."---Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader"Rosen’s ethnographic study helps to correct a weak point in the literature on the HCV program. . . . The Voucher Promise provides a look at the HCV program from many perspectives including the participating voucher households and the renter households not lucky enough to receive a voucher. The book studies the landlords who choose to participate as well as those who do not. Finally, the book explores the households, especially long-term homeowners, who populate the neighborhoods where the HCV voucher households locate. This mix of perspectives is the strength of the book."---Kirk McClure, Social Forces"This work, although a valuable contribution to the sociology literature, is also an important book for urban planners and policy scholars and practitioners. Rosen has managed the difficult task of creating rigorous research that is highly critical of an important federal program but at the same time recognized how vital the program is to the lives of so many economically fragile families. . . . a must read for anyone interested in housing markets and housing policy. It is refreshingly well written and at the same time highly substantive."---Dan Immergluck, Journal of the American Planning Association"A fine study with important insights for scholars and practitioners, regardless of their disciplinary leanings. Readers may find themselves comparing [The Voucher Promise] favorably to the highly acclaimed Evicted: Poverty and Poverty in the American City by Matthew Desmond."---Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Planning Education and Research"[Rosen] bring[s] to the table workable and much needed suggestions for changes to a flawed policy."---Lisa Lucile Owens, Critical Sociology"The Voucher Promise provides an informative, in-depth, and necessary look into the policy and practice of the HCV program clearly identifying a need to reassess the way it currently operates. . . . [A]n essential read for policymakers, urban sociologists, and scholars."---Jeanne Kimpel, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
£16.19
University of Georgia Press NonPerforming Loans NonPerforming People Life
Book SynopsisTells the previously untold stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward housing justice.
£24.95
LUP - University of Georgia Press Imprisoned Interlocking Oppression in Law
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how foundational policies in American history continue to work to the detriment of Black Americans - tying the racist foundations of America to discrimination in our criminal justice system and neighbourhoods.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the study of racial and ethnic relations, Imprisoned will greatly assist readers in understanding the complexity of race relations in the United States. It also demonstrates that U.S. policing reform would need to consider entanglements with historically labeling black bodies as ‘criminal’ and the practice of segregating and patrolling black bodies very differently than any other racial and ethnic group in America." - Cameron D. Lippard, coeditor of Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality"Imprisoned makes an important contribution to the sociological literature on race and ethnicity, the criminal justice system, urban sociology, and racial residential segregation." - Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, coeditor of Intersectionality and Higher Education
£88.30
LUP - University of Georgia Press Imprisoned
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how foundational policies in American history continue to work to the detriment of Black Americans - tying the racist foundations of America to discrimination in our criminal justice system and neighbourhoods.Trade ReviewA significant contribution to the study of racial and ethnic relations, Imprisoned will greatly assist readers in understanding the complexity of race relations in the United States. It also demonstrates that U.S. policing reform would need to consider entanglements with historically labeling black bodies as ‘criminal’ and the practice of segregating and patrolling black bodies very differently than any other racial and ethnic group in America." - Cameron D. Lippard, coeditor of Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality"Imprisoned makes an important contribution to the sociological literature on race and ethnicity, the criminal justice system, urban sociology, and racial residential segregation." - Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, coeditor of Intersectionality and Higher Education
£19.90
Fordham University Press Neighborhood Success Stories
Book SynopsisThis book illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today. The buildings were developed between 1975 and 1997.Table of ContentsForeword by Gale A. Brewer ix Foreword by Ruben Diaz, Jr. xi Part I: Overview 1 Housing Issues and Experiences 3 2 Getting Started at Settlement Housing Fund 11 Part II: A West Bronx Story 3 Walton and Townsend 19 4 Deciding to Own and Competing to Win 30 5 Collaborations and Battles 39 6 Here Come the Families 49 7 The Stucco Falls Off and the Playground Collapses 61 8 Finding Jack 67 9 Community Programs, Philosophy, and Achievements 76 10 New Settlement Community Campus: The Schools, Center, and Pool 83 11 A Few of the Families 103 12 New Settlement Today 127 Part III: A Tale of Two Bridges 13 Two Bridges: The Early Years 137 14 Two Bridges Houses 143 15 Lands End I 152 16 Lands End II 163 17 The Pathmark 172 18 Two Bridges Townhouses 180 19 Two Bridges Senior Housing 187 20 Two Bridges Tower 195 21 The Future for Two Bridges 213 Part IV: Looking Ahead 22 Lessons and Recommendations 219 Appendix: List of Federal, State, and Local Programs 243 Acknowledgments 247 Index 249
£18.89
MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary The
Book SynopsisArgues that acknowledging the Portland growth boundary in 1979 was the most significant decision the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission has ever made, and, more broadly, is a significant milestone in American land-use planning.
£29.96
John Wiley & Sons Inc Defensible Space on the Move
Book SynopsisBoth theoretically informed and empirically rich,Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts. Critically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has beeninfluential in designing out crime to date, and has beenapplied to housing estates in the UK, North America, Europe and beyond Evaluates themovement/mobility/mobilisation of defensible spacefrom the US to the UK and into English housing policyandpractice Exploresthe multiple ways the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, as it circulated from national to local level and within particular English housing estates Critiquing and pushing forwards work on policy mobilities, the authors illustrate for the first time how transfer mechanisms worked at both a policy and practitioner level DrawiTrade Review‘Design against crime? What could be better! This compelling story of where ‘defensible space’ came from, how the idea has changed, and what difference it has made to cities and social life is unputdownable. It turns on a riveting account of the individuals who championed (and some who resisted) the concept – a band of unlikely influencers whose mix of conviction, charisma and common sense became embedded in domestic space.’Susan J. Smith, Mistress of Girton College and Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography, University of Cambridge, UK‘This book by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick is essentially a great detective story – a whodunnit of how allegedly research-based theory can translate into policy and ultimately into accepted practice. There is a cast of many well-known characters whose interaction on the question of whether physical determinism can affect human behaviour is rich and fascinating. With planning and urban design again at the centre of politics, this book is an essential source.’Ben Derbyshire, Chair of HTA Design LLP, Former Past President of RIBA and Historic England Commissioner‘Rarely do I savour a book with such enthusiasm, absorbed by the detail and delighted by the presentation. This is the missing text that I have craved – a text that explains, in meticulous detail, how the rather abstract concept of Defensible Space managed to jump the gap between theoretical and practical knowledge and successfully embed itself into practice.’Rachel Armitage, Professor of Criminology, University of Huddersfield, UK ‘Defensible Space on the Move is a fine historiography based on meticulous research and a forensic investigative approach to its subject matter. The book will appeal to a broad readership, including academic researchers, policy makers, students, and lay people. The book is seminal in its careful documentation, and discussion, of one of the more important ideas about what the good city is or ought to be. Through a careful assembling of material, the authors have elevated, and enhanced, the understanding about policy mobilities, in which the fluid, often contradictory, and messy nature of practice is highlighted.’Rob Imrie (reviewing in Buildings & Cities) Table of ContentsList of Figures vi List of Tables viii Glossary of Acronyms ix Series Editors’ Preface xi Acknowledgements xii Preface xiii 1 Defensible Space: An Introduction 1 2 Defensible Space Is Mobilised in England 32 3 Defensible Space Goes on Trial but Attracts Those in Power 64 4 Operationalising Defensible Space 102 Case Study ‘ The Mozart Estate: A Laboratory for Defensible Space’ 141 5 Evaluations of Defensible Space 156 6 The Uptake and Resilience of Defensible Space Ideas 187 7 Defensible Space: A Common Sense, Middle-range Theory 219 References 251 Index 279
£54.00
State University of New York Press Race Real Estate and Uneven Development Second
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£22.96
Arcadia Publishing Virginiahighland
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£19.99
University of Toronto Press Displacement City
Book SynopsisWhat can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on the homeless population in Toronto? Displacement City shares the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during this unprecedented crisis.Trade Review"Anyone who visited downtown Toronto during the pandemic knows the devastating and powerful impact it had on the city’s homeless. Outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe have a deep knowledge of the people behind the statistics and the headlines, and here create a better understanding of how policies affect people. In this powerful book, they have collected poetry, photography, essays that tell the stories of front-line workers, advocates, people who are unhoused. These include experiences living in the shelter system, displacement, the legacy of residential schools and the experience of the Indigenous population. A unique and powerful account." -- Deborah Dundas * Toronto Star *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction Cathy Crowe and Greg Cook Part I: We Are [Not] in This Together 1. “Displaced Again and Again and Again” Nikki Sutherland 2. The Housing Crisis and the Indian Residential School Legacy Blue Sky, Leaders from the Houseless Community, Sandra Campbell, and Leigh Kern 3. Inconvenient Bodies and Toronto’s History of Displacement Lorraine Lam and Greg Cook 4. Displaced There, Displaced Here Jenn McIntyre and Steve Meagher 5. Dystopian Realities Michael Eschbach Part II: Fighting Back 6. Responsibility Downloaded: How Drop-in Centres Stepped Up and Pushed Back during the Pandemic Diana McNally 7. Surviving COVID-19 in the Shelter System Brian Cleary 8. Social Murder: We Need More than Band Aids Roxie Danielson 9. Slipped through the Fingertips of the System? Greg Cook and Dredzz 10. The Toronto Encampment Support Network Fights Back Simone Schmidt with Photos by Jeff Bierk 11. Wish You Were Here Zoe Dodd 12. Fighting Ableism Jennifer Jewell Poem: Our Wilderness Zachary Grant 13. Palliative Care in a Pandemic Trevor McNally and Naheed Dosani Profile: Building Tiny Homeless Shelters Canadian Human Rights Commission Poem: Lord We Pray Zachary Grant Graphic by Michael D. Part III: COVID-19 in the Courts 14. In the Parks and in the Courts: The Legal Fight against Encampment Evictions A.J. Withers and Derrick Black 15. COVID-Life Sarah White 16. Two Metres Doug Johnson Hatlem, Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, and Geetha Philipupillai 17. Homelessness, Housing, and Human Rights Accountability Leilani Farha Poem: There Is a Development Proposed for This Site Zachary Grant Afterword Author Bios
£17.99
Lexington Books Public Opinion Public Policy and Smoking
Book SynopsisPublic Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking tracks Americans' changing attitudes about cigarette smoking over the last century. With data from more than five thousand public and privately conducted polls, this book carefully examines how Americans came to understand the health risks of smoking; how the tobacco industry sought to reframe smoking; and how public opinion support for tobacco control affected lawsuits, elections, and public policies. This book tests several well-known linkage models that connect public opinion with public policy. It shows that conventional wisdom about public opinion and tobacco control policy is often mistaken. This book offers the first in-depth look at American public opinion and cigarette smoking during the last century.Trade ReviewThe book...offer[s] a nice history of the changes in Americans’ awareness of the health risks of cigarette smoking and some of the major events that have occurred over the past century and a half. It also includes an extensive and detailed bibliography. * Public Opinion Quarterly *Marshall’s book is especially innovative in focusing on what the public knew or believed and how public opinion shifted over time. Other recent historical accounts of this period have focused largely on scientific knowledge and on what scientists, health officials, and the tobacco industry knew or believed. . . Marshall’s account is optimistic. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *A highly readable, informed, and superbly analyzed study of changing mass attitudes towards smoking and the impact these have had on policy formation and implementation. A critical health, economic, and social issue addressed by one of the country's top healthcare and public opinion experts. It sets the standard for the field. An outstanding contribution. -- William Crotty, Northeastern UniversityThomas Marshall’s Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking examines changing public attitudes toward smoking, as well as the role of public opinion in the formulation of tobacco control policy. By analyzing over fifty years of public opinion poll data in relationship to policy formation, Marshall demonstrates that public opinion has played a critical role in the development of tobacco control policy. This highly readable book should be of great interest to all who care about tobacco policy, as well as anyone who wants to understand public health policymaking. -- Wendy E. Parmet, Northeastern UniversityThomas Marshall literally draws on thousands of public and private opinion polls conducted since the 1930s to carefully explain what Americans believed about the harm of cigarette smoking and what the government should do about it. His recurring finding is that mass public opinion does matter in smoking-related policy-making. Because Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking is so well argued, thorough, and evenhanded, I expect it be the “go-to” book about public opinion and tobacco control policy. -- Charles D. Hadley, University of New OrleansTable of ContentsChapter One: Of Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking Chapter Two: In the Beginning Chapter Three: Public Opinion and the Health Risks of Smoking Chapter Four: Polls and the Battle over Smoking Chapter Five: Public Opinion, Federal Policies, and Smoking Chapter Six: Public Opinion, Juries, and Courts Chapter Seven: Public Opinion, Public Policy, and the End of Smoking Chapter Eight: Bringing Public Opinion Back Into Tobacco Control Policy
£85.50
Lexington Books Public Opinion Public Policy and Smoking
Book SynopsisPublic Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking tracks Americans' changing attitudes about cigarette smoking over the last century. With data from more than five thousand public and privately conducted polls, this book carefully examines how Americans came to understand the health risks of smoking; how the tobacco industry sought to reframe smoking; and how public opinion support for tobacco control affected lawsuits, elections, and public policies. This book tests several well-known linkage models that connect public opinion with public policy. It shows that conventional wisdom about public opinion and tobacco control policy is often mistaken. This book offers the first in-depth look at American public opinion and cigarette smoking during the last century.Trade ReviewThe book...offer[s] a nice history of the changes in Americans’ awareness of the health risks of cigarette smoking and some of the major events that have occurred over the past century and a half. It also includes an extensive and detailed bibliography. * Public Opinion Quarterly *Marshall’s book is especially innovative in focusing on what the public knew or believed and how public opinion shifted over time. Other recent historical accounts of this period have focused largely on scientific knowledge and on what scientists, health officials, and the tobacco industry knew or believed. . . Marshall’s account is optimistic. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *A highly readable, informed, and superbly analyzed study of changing mass attitudes towards smoking and the impact these have had on policy formation and implementation. A critical health, economic, and social issue addressed by one of the country's top healthcare and public opinion experts. It sets the standard for the field. An outstanding contribution. -- William Crotty, Northeastern UniversityThomas Marshall’s Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking examines changing public attitudes toward smoking, as well as the role of public opinion in the formulation of tobacco control policy. By analyzing over fifty years of public opinion poll data in relationship to policy formation, Marshall demonstrates that public opinion has played a critical role in the development of tobacco control policy. This highly readable book should be of great interest to all who care about tobacco policy, as well as anyone who wants to understand public health policymaking. -- Wendy E. Parmet, Northeastern UniversityThomas Marshall literally draws on thousands of public and private opinion polls conducted since the 1930s to carefully explain what Americans believed about the harm of cigarette smoking and what the government should do about it. His recurring finding is that mass public opinion does matter in smoking-related policy-making. Because Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking is so well argued, thorough, and evenhanded, I expect it be the “go-to” book about public opinion and tobacco control policy. -- Charles D. Hadley, University of New OrleansTable of ContentsChapter One: Of Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking Chapter Two: In the Beginning Chapter Three: Public Opinion and the Health Risks of Smoking Chapter Four: Polls and the Battle over Smoking Chapter Five: Public Opinion, Federal Policies, and Smoking Chapter Six: Public Opinion, Juries, and Courts Chapter Seven: Public Opinion, Public Policy, and the End of Smoking Chapter Eight: Bringing Public Opinion Back Into Tobacco Control Policy
£37.80
Lexington Books NeoSocialist Property Rights
Book SynopsisNeo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers' practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized rights discourse and practice in the past two decades. Ho Cheuk-Yuet considers them to be a condensation and vindication of the principles of family values and emergent neo-socialist governance. However, there are manifested and latent contradictions between rights as interests and rights as a moral principle. This book concludes that private property rights are at once enabling and disabling when understood in the light of both the rigorous pursuit of well-being in a market economy and the contestation by those who resist forced eviction or the infringement of owners' rights. In this book, Ho provides rarely available ethnographic record of the encounters between evictees and evictors engageTrade ReviewThrough vivid case studies and rich theoretical interpretations, this book sheds light on the tension between a market economy of real estate and the authoritarian government in post reform China, which is a topic in need of much exploration if we want to understand the contemporary global economic system. . . . Overall, the book provides ethnographic and theoretical insights into issues of housing, resistance and struggle, local governance, and neo-socialist China. Scholars working in these fields should find the book useful in offering the latest ethnographic updates on China’s housing issues. * City & Society *Rich in empirical evidence and theoretical exploration, Neo-Socialist Property Rights tackles the tension created by an authoritarian government and a market economy. It sheds intriguing light on the property issue that is at the heart of China’s growth and decay in the post-Mao era. -- Qin Shao, author of Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese MegacityThis provocative study offers a deeply human portrait of urban citizens engaged in everyday struggles over the right to housing. With theoretical sophistication and rich ethnographic observation, Ho Cheuk-Yuet reveals the paradoxes of housing privatization, and in so doing, advances a new understanding of emergent notions of property rights and debates over home ownership in China’s booming real estate market. -- Christina Schwenkel, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsList of Figures Glossary of Chinese Terms Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: From Vice to the Virtue of Owning Private Property Chapter 2 Exit, or Evict: Re-grounding Rights in Need Chapter 3 Bargaining Demolition: When Needs and Desires Meet Chapter 4 Investing Citizens: Embracing Desires and Risks Chapter 5 Affective Ownership: Situating Rights in Desires Chapter 6 The Property Question: Meanings and Values Chapter 7 The Real Life of Rights: A Detour from Needs and Desires to Interests Chapter 8 Final Thoughts: The Ambivalence of Rights Afterword Locating and Mislocating Rights in Neo-Socialist China Appendix Research Methods References Index
£91.80
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Applying International and European
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of anti-discrimination law as it applies to housing law in Europe. It offers an important perspective in a field dominated by employment law studies, while drawing on concepts significant in that field as well. Legislative discussion looks at EU law, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Social Charter and related case law. The book goes further to examine United Nations human rights instruments and related practice of UN committees. This unique focus allows for a fuller understanding of anti-discrimination law’s implications, potential, and challenges.
£114.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cornerstone on Social Housing Fraud
Book SynopsisIn response to social housing fraud, the Government introduced the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013, which made sub-letting and parting with possession of social lets a specific criminal offence and granted local authorities the power to prosecute those who had acted in such a manner. Not only can offenders be jailed, but they can also be fined and ordered to pay an unlawful profit order, thus opening up a revenue opportunity to cash-strapped social landlords. Social housing fraud is an important and high profile issue. This title provides a thorough overview of this regime and how local authorities can maximise their chances of recovering possession of properties affected by fraud, obtaining ‘compensation’ and securing a conviction, including techniques for effective evidence gathering. Topics covered, include: - Possession action in the county court - Sub-letting/parting with possession - Investigation powers - Criminal offences and procedure - Civil remedies - GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 For ease of reference, relevant primary and secondary legislation has been included within the appendices, which also includes templates for: Particulars of Claim (county court), Complaint (magistrates’ court) Notice to Quit and Notice Seeking Possession. There is also a useful landlord checklist, to ensure nothing has been overlooked during what can be a complex process. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Local Government Law and Property and Land Law online services.Table of Contents1. FRAUD IN THE SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR 2. TENANCY PROCURED BY FALSE STATEMENT 3. MISUSE OF PROPERTY 4. ONLY OR PRINCIPAL HOME/SUCCESSION 5. CIVIL FINANCIAL REMEDIES 6. INVESTIGATION AND EVIDENCE 7. CRIMINAL SANCTIONS APPENDICES Appendix A – Statutes Appendix B – Secondary Legislation Appendix C – Civil Procedure Rule and Guidance Appendix D – Landlord checklist
£123.50
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Visualizing Density
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£35.70
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Visioning and Visualization – People, Pixels, and
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£25.50
School of Government Inclusionary Zoning: A Guide to Ordinances and
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£28.45
Temple University Press,U.S. Rebuilding Low Income Housing
Book SynopsisA new strategy proposed for producing affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizationsTrade Review"A useful resource for planners an activist working on housing development. It provides a wealth of information about the positive and negative outcomes of various federal and local initiatives."—International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"[L]ittle work has been done to show that a community-based housing program is a viable alternative. Rachel Bratt's new book...fills this void nicely by giving a detailed account of the recent emergence of community-based housing programs....Bratt is perhaps the country's leading expert in this area....While the main emphasis of the book is on community-based housing programs, an additional plus is a critical review of the history of United States housing programs which I found illuminating and insightful."—Journal of Urban AffairsTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Housing Problems and Current Responses 2. Housing Programs and Housing Evaluations Part II: Traditional Federally Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs 3. The Public Housing Program 4. Publicly Subsidized Private Housing 5. CASE STUDY: Private versus Public Goals: Conflicting Interests in Resyndication 6. HUD and Low-Income Housing Programs 7. CASE STUDY: HUD's Property Disposition Policies and the Granite Properties Emily J. Morris, co-author Part III: The Past, Present, and Future of Community-Based Housing 8. An Overview and Assessment of the Community-Based Housing Strategy 9. CASE STUDY: Community-Based Housing Development at the Local Level: The Challenges Facing South Holyoke, Massachusetts Thomas M. Harden, co-author 10. Dilemmas of Community-Based Housing Development CASE STUDIES: Two Community Development Corporations Eric Bove, Phillip Brown, Peter Hollands, Sarah Snow, and John Thoma, case studies co-authors 11. Public Support for Community-Based Housing in Massachusetts 12. CASE STUDY: Institutionalizing Community-Based Housing Development: The Boston Housing Partnership Wendy Plotkin, co-author 13. Rebuilding a Low-Income Housing Policy Notes References Index
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Heyday Books Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired
Book SynopsisA bracing, original look at the connected histories of real estate, institutionalized racism, and our political polarizationA landmark history told with supreme narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors’ definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought. Gene Slater follows this story from inside the realtor profession, drawing on many industry documents that have remained unexamined until now. His book traces the increasingly aggressive ways realtors justified their practices, how they successfully weaponized the word “freedom” for their cause, and how conservative politicians have drawn directly from realtors’ rhetoric for the past several decades. Much of this story takes place in California, and Slater demonstrates why one of the very first all-white neighborhoods was in Berkeley, and why the state was the perfect place for Ronald Reagan’s political ascension.The hinge point in this history is Proposition 14, a largely forgotten but monumentally important 1964 ballot initiative. Created and promoted by California realtors, the proposition sought to uphold housing discrimination permanently in the state’s constitution, and a vast majority of Californians voted for it. This vote had explosive consequences—ones that still inform our deepest political divisions today—and a true reckoning with the history of American racism requires a closer look at the events leading up to it. Freedom to Discriminate shatters preconceptions about American segregation, and it connects many seemingly disparate aspects of the nation’s history in a novel and galvanizing way.Trade Review"Freedom to Discriminate is a thorough, searing indictment that reminds the reader of the historical forces that have shaped U.S. housing policy and illuminates a dark chapter that has largely, until now, remained in the shadows.”—Planetizen, selected as one of the top urban planning books of the year"In Freedom to Discriminate, Gene Slater, who has spent four decades as a consultant to states and municipalities on housing policy, makes a powerful case that California’s real estate brokers not only originated a system of residential segregation that became a model for the entire nation, but also effectively mobilized support for Proposition 14 by invoking the central idea in America’s political vocabulary: freedom. [...] Providing a template for opposition to an overbearing liberal state, Slater argues, the successful campaign for Proposition 14 laid the foundation for the rise of modern American conservatism."—Eric Foner, Los Angeles Review of Books"A book of housing history that is meticulously sourced, fast moving, and well argued."—Michael Lens, Journal of the American Planning Association“A searing account of how the professional gatekeepers of America’s neighborhoods—realtors—constructed and reconstructed the ideas that anchored the gates of residential segregation, as told by someone who spent a career trying to tear them down. Mining the largely unexcavated records of realtors themselves, many of them smoking guns, Freedom to Discriminate offers a critical perspective on the history of housing discrimination: how its ostensibly race-neutral defense helped shape American political conservatism and, ultimately, underpin the yawning contemporary racial wealth gap.”—Mark Brilliant, Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director, Program in American Studies, University of California, Berkeley“Slater’s richly researched and persuasive account of planned housing segregation in the United States opens the door to a shameful part of our history, the effects of which reverberate to this day. This work should be read by all who are interested in America’s current racial predicament.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, author of On Juneteenth“They told a Big Lie—that Black neighbors lower property values—then made it true. They forged an iron cage of legal and institutional restriction, then called it ‘individual choice.’ They invented an ‘American dream’ they systematically denied to millions of Americans. The endless resourcefulness of America’s real estate industry in building and maintaining a racist system in the twentieth century is an astonishment to behold. Slater tells the story with brilliance and clarity.”—Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganland“A fascinating and timely look at how the seemingly innocuous idea of consumer choice can fuel insidious racism and discrimination. Slater’s rigorous analysis is an excellent addition to the history of the United States, before and after Martin Luther King implored the nation to dismantle its racial hierarchies.”—Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History“Although I’ve been writing about issues of racial justice much of my life, this remarkable book taught me things I didn’t know. Slater shows how the seldom-scrutinized real estate industry is as powerful as the police and the prison-industrial complex in denying Black Americans their rights.”—Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains“Revelatory. By reframing the segregation debate through the lens of the realtor lobby, Slater offers new insights into well-known practices and deepens our understanding of how property rights became sacred in California—with consequences that are all too evident today.”—Miriam Pawel, author of The Browns of California“This breathtaking book finds the demons of twenty-first century America not in our nation’s founding documents, but in our very own houses. Slater unearths the history of how California realtors—of all people—redefined the meaning of freedom in ways that still segregate and polarize the entire country today.”—Joe Mathews, California columnist and editor, Zócalo Public Square“Freedom to Discriminate shows us in lucid detail how the marketplace of property shapes the everyday economics of racism, and how the discourse of property enables the politics of racism.”—Tony Platt, author of Beyond These WallsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gettysburg 1964 Part One. Limiting Individual Freedom for the Common Good: Early 1900s–Early 1920s 1. Progressive Reformers of Real Estate 2. The Public Power of a Private Club 3. It’s the Restrictions on Your Neighbors Which Count 4. Implementing Racial Exclusion Part Two. An Ideology to Institutionalize Segregation: Early 1920s–Late 1940s 5. Undesirable Human Elements 6. Shaping Federal Housing Programs 7. Reconciling the War against Hitler with a New Racial Entitlement Part Three. Freedom of Association: Late 1940s–Late 1950s 8. Defending Racial Covenants 9. Recommitting to Segregation after Shelley 10. Using Freedom of Association to Intensify Segregation 11. The Idea of a National Conservative Party Part Four. Freedom of Choice: Late 1950s–June 1963 12. Struggling for an Ideology to Defend against Fair Housing 13. Creating a Standardized Ideology of Freedom Part Five. A National Crusade in California: June 1963–November 1964 14. A Constitutional Amendment to Permanently Protect Discrimination 15. Racial Moderation to Continue Segregation 16. Redefining Freedom and America’s Founding 17. A Battle between Two Visions of Freedom Part Six. An Earthquake: 1965–1968 18. Reagan and the Realtors 19. Realtor Victories against Fair Housing 20. To Defeat the Realtors 21. An Ideology of Freedom for a National Conservative Party Part Seven. American Legacy: 1969– 22. The Continuation of Residential Segregation 23. A Legacy for Civil Rights 24. Who American Freedom is for Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography and Works Cited About the Author
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Island Press Environmental Regulations and Housing Costs
Book SynopsisDoes environmental protection impose a cost? Many communities across the United States still lack affordable housing. And many officials continue to claim that 'affordable housing' is an oxymoron. Building inexpensively is impossible, they say, because there are too many regulations. Required environmental impact statements and habitat protection laws, they contend, drive up the costs of construction. But is this actually true? In a comprehensive study of the question, the authors of this eye-opening book separate fact from myth. With admirable clarity, they describe the policy debate from its beginning, review the economic theory, trace the evolution of development regulation, and summarize the major research on the topic. In addition, they offer their own research, accompanied by a case study of two strikingly different Washington, D.C., suburbs. They also include results of focus groups conducted in Dallas, Denver, and Tucson. The authors find that environmental regulatory costs - as a share of total costs and processes - are about the same now as they were thirty years ago, even though there are far more regulations today. They find, too, that environmental regulations may actually create benefits that could improve the value of housing. Although they conclude that regulations do not appear to drive up housing costs more now than in the past, they do offer recommendations of ways in which the processes associated with regulations - including review procedures - could be improved and could result in cost savings. Intended primarily for professionals who are involved in, or impacted by, regulations - from public officials, planners, and engineers to housing developers and community activists - this book will provide useful insights and data to anyone who wants to know if (and how) American housing can actually be made 'affordable'.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Overview of Federal Housing Assistance Programs
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Housing Counseling: Types, Funding & Significance
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Homelessness in America: National Assessments
Book SynopsisThis book examines the extent and nature of the issue of homelessness in the u.s. the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 1.1 percent from 643,067 in January 2009 to 649,917 in January 2010. Discussed are the characteristics of persons experiencing homelessness, trends in shelters; the use of supportive housing programs; and homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing assistance.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc No One Home: Challenges & Costs of Vacant
Book SynopsisDuring the continuing foreclosure crisis and economic downturn, increased numbers of vacant residential properties are becoming vandalised or dilapidated, attracting crime, and contributing to neighbourhood decline in many communities across the country. Even though homeowners whose properties are being foreclosed upon may continue to occupy their properties until after a foreclosure sale occurs, many leave their homes during the foreclosure process. In addition, properties for which a new entity has assumed ownership through foreclosure may be vacant until the property is resold. This book explores the concern over the costs that foreclosed and unattended vacant homes are creating for local communities and the strategies state and local governments are using to address unattended vacant property problems and the challenges those governments face.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Housing Finance System in the United States
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Housing Administration's Insurance
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Housing for Persons with HIV: Needs, Assistance,
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Housing Assistance Programs for
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American Bar Association The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing
Book SynopsisThe Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, Third Edition covers the most important areas of applicable law and provides a comprehensive overview of affordable housing laws. This continues to be a time of challenges for affordable housing, with the now-familiar mortgage and foreclosure crises resulting in a period of deep uncertainty and long-term adjustment. This timely third edition provides not only a past and future perspective from seasoned professionals, but also includes critical updates to all of the chapters from the second edition. New chapters have been added to address the greening of affordable housing, the unprecedented number of severely cost-burdened households and innovative state and local policy responses, and the mortgage crisis of 2008 and the rental crisis caused by COVID-19. The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development is a clearly written, practical resource for attorneys representing local governments (municipalities, counties, housing authorities, and redevelopment agencies), housing developers (both for-profit and nonprofit), investors, financial institutions, and populations eligible for housing. With substantial cross-referencing between chapters and an extensive index for quick access to on-point information, the guide is organized into three separate parts.
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American Bar Association The Historic Tax Credit
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University of Nevada Press The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners'
Book SynopsisThe Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.
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Rowman & Littlefield The Condominium Concept: A Practical Guide for
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Rowman & Littlefield The Law of Florida Homeowners Association
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Rowman & Littlefield The Condominium Concept
Book SynopsisA practical and popular guide to operating a successful condominium association in Florida. Working tool with forms and references to the latest Florida Statutes. For officers, owners, realtors, attorneys and directors. Now in its 17th edition, The Condominium Concept brings updated laws and news on important discussions surrounding condominium law in Florida.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Planning Permission
Book SynopsisThe brand new title that sets out the law and practice of planning applications, appeals and challenges, particularly focussing on: -The need for planning permission and the concept of development -Permitted development rights -Applying for planning permission and the consideration of applications by local authorities -Planning appeals -The role of the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers -Planning permission granted by development orders Dealing with why planning permission is needed, how it is obtained by permitted development, planning applications and orders, this essential new title begins with the concept of development, the need for planning permission and permitted development rights. Planning applications are then considered at the local authority, appeal and call-in stages, with advice provided for developers, local authorities, interest groups and residents, setting out clearly how each can be involved in the process. High Court challenges are considered thoroughly. Finally, complex questions regarding the interpretation and implementation of each area of this process are discussed. What does it include? Planning Permission analyses the legal rules and caselaw, including the 2015 orders. Practical advice is given on making and responding to applications, dealing with planning committees, Ministerial interventions, appeals and call-ins. The operation of the Planning Court is also addressed from the practitioner’s perspective. Helpful appendices include the relevant parts of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the Development Management Procedure Order 2015, the General Permitted Development Order 2015, the Use Classes Order and the appeal rules and regulations. Contents: 1 Outline of the planning system and underlying principles; 2 The meaning of development; 3 The Use Classes Order; 4 The need for planning permission; 5 Permitted development rights; 6 Planning applications; 7 Environmental Impact Assessment; 8 Determining planning applications; 9 Material Considerations 10 London; 11 Planning conditions; 12 Planning Obligations; 13 The issue of planning permission; 14 Planning permission for variations and retrospective consents: Section 73 and 73A; 15 Non-material variations; 16 Reserved matters and approval of details under conditions; 17 Call-ins and the role of Ministers; 18 Planning applications made to Ministers; 19 Planning Appeals – preliminaries and tactics; 20 Householder and minor commercial appeals; 21 Written representations; 22 Hearings; 23 Inquiries; 24 The appeal decision and costs; 25 High Court challenges; 26 Other means of obtaining planning permission – development orders, deemed planning permission and Simplified Planning Zones; 27 Community Infrastructure Levy; 28 Interpretation of planning permission; 29 Implementation This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Planning Law online service.Trade Review...comprehensive coverage across the spectrum of development management issues...The author is to be congratulated in comprehensively addressing the law and practice applicable in England and Wales as at 1 January 2016 about planning permission applications, appeals and challenges in an accessible, intelligible style. -- John Watchman * Scottish Planning and Environmental Law *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Outline of the planning system Chapter 2 The meaning of development Chapter 3 Use classes Chapter 4 The need for planning permission Chapter 5 Permitted development rights Chapter 6 Planning applications Chapter 7 Environmental Impact Assessment Chapter 8 Determining planning applications Chapter 9 Material considerations and policy Chapter 10 London Chapter 11 Planning conditions Chapter 12 Planning obligations Chapter 13 Planning permission for variations, retrospective and replacement consents Chapter 14 The issuing of planning permission Chapter 15 N on-material amendments to planning permissions Chapter 16 Reserved matters and the approval of details under conditions Chapter 17 Call-ins and the role of Ministers Chapter 18 Planning applications made directly to the Minister Chapter 19 Planning appeals: preliminaries and tactics Chapter 20 Householder and minor commercial appeals Chapter 21 Written representations Chapter 22 Hearings Chapter 23 Inquiries Chapter 24 Decisions and costs in appeals and call-ins Chapter 25 High Court challenges Chapter 26 The grant of planning permission by orders and other means Chapter 27 Community Infrastructure Levy Chapter 28 The effect and interpretation of planning permission Chapter 29 Implementation of planning permission Appendix: Statutory Materials Town and Country Planning Act 1990, ss 55–106C, 284, 288, 319–323 Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987, SI 1987/764 Town and Country Planning (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000, SI 2000/1624 Town and Country Planning Appeals (Determination by Inspectors) (Inquiries Procedure) (England) Rules 2000, SI 2000/1625 Town and Country Planning (Hearings Procedure) (England) Rules 2000, SI 2000/1626 Town and Country Planning (Appeals) (Written Representations Procedure) (England) Regulations 2009, SI 2009/452 Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015, SI 2015/595 Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, SI 2015/596
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Anthem Press The Inherence of Human Dignity: Foundations of
Book SynopsisFocused at the theoretical level, this volume seeks to clarify our understanding of various historical and contemporary concepts of human dignity. It examines the various meanings of the term ‘dignity’ before looking at the philosophical sources of dignity and both religious and secular attempts to provide a grounding for the notion. It also compares the merits and defects of older and newer concepts of dignity, including extensions of dignity to groups, animals, and machines.Trade ReviewOccupying a place front and center among important moral phenomena in need of robust explanation is the dignity of human persons. As such this perennially fascinating topic constitutes a powerful test case for rival explanatory candidates, an eminently telling clue to the import of the human condition and the very nature of reality. The essential dignity and unspeakably great worth of each and every human being is both a vital humanistic and humanizing doctrine, and an ineliminable moral datum that veritably cries out for adequate explanation to do it justice. The most penetrating explanations of human dignity refuse to domesticate or deflate it, but rather allow its full reverential and evidential force to be felt. This diverse collection adds a chorus of intelligent and insightful voices to this timely and timeless exploration, providing clarifying analysis, points of resonance and common ground across divergent views, as well as tensions and disagreements that ultimately, and instructively, may prove insuperable. — David Baggett, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Moral Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, USAThe political and legal battle over how we understand human dignity is right at the heart of the comprehensive crisis that is rocking the advanced modern world to its foundations, and there is no better scholarly exploration of that concept than the work published in these two invaluable volumes. — Greg Forster, Ph.D., Director, Oikonomia Network, Assistant Professor of Faith and Culture, Trinity International University, USAThe Inherence of Human Dignity, Vol. 1 and 2, deserves a wide readership. Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have drawn together an important collection of essays from a diverse group of authors in order to explore different conceptions of human dignity and how it is to be grounded. — Robert A. Larmer, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of New Brunswick, CanadaBussey and Menuge have edited a magisterial, brilliant two volume work that should be essential reading for anyone interested in a commitment to human dignity. — Charles Taliaferro Overby Distinguished Chair and Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, USA"Human rights protect human dignity. But what is human dignity? Why is it important? An international group of scholars comments first on grounding human dignity and second on human dignity’s competing conceptions. By editing these essays, Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have done the scholarly community a great service”.—Prof. dr. Paul Cliteur, Professor of Jurisprudence, Leiden University.“Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (or Maastricht Treaty, 1992) states that ‘The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights.’ This Article makes human dignity a notion that is relevant for legal scholars, politicians, and others who want to understand the foundations of contemporary European culture. Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have done an excellent job collecting some of the most thought-provoking contributions on this topic. This book deserves a wide readership.” — Prof. dr. Afshin Ellian, Professor of Jurisprudence, Leiden University.https://voegelinview.com/the-inherence-of-human-dignity/Table of ContentsIntroduction, Angus J. L. Menuge; Part I Grounding Human Dignity; Chapter One Human Dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ‘Old’ or ‘New’?, Laura Kittel; Chapter Two How Do We Justify Human Rights and Dignity?, Keith Thompson; Chapter Three May Critics of ‘Inherent Dignity’ Be Answered? Rejoinders from Christian Anthropology, David Guretzki; Chapter Four Three Sources of Human Dignity, Erik J. Wielenberg; Chapter Five Atheism and Theism: A Comparison of Metaphysical Foundations for Human Dignity, Paul Copan; Chapter Six Dignity and Tolerance: A Tension and a Challenge, Claudia Mariéle Wulf; Chapter Seven Human Dignity: What to Do with It? From Fruitless Abstraction to Meaningful Action, Hendrik Kaptein; Part II Competing Conceptions of Human Dignity; Chapter Eight Two Concepts of Dignity: On the Decay of Agency in Law, Åsbjørn Melkevik and Bjarne Melkevik; Chapter Nine Human Dignity as Law’s Foundation: An Outline for a Personalist Jurisprudence, Michał Rupniewski; Chapter Ten The Social Ontology of Human Dignity, Nicholas Aroney; Chapter Eleven How Not to Interpret Human Dignity: A Common Fallacy, Friedrich Toepel; Chapter Twelve The Nominalist Foundations of Constructivist Dignity, R. Scott Smith; Chapter Thirteen Artificial Dignity: The Humanizing and Dehumanizing Implications of Polanyi versus Turing’s Ontology, Andy Steiger; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Anthem Press The Inherence of Human Dignity: Foundations of
Book SynopsisFocused at the theoretical level, this volume seeks to clarify our understanding of various historical and contemporary concepts of human dignity. It examines the various meanings of the term ‘dignity’ before looking at the philosophical sources of dignity and both religious and secular attempts to provide a grounding for the notion. It also compares the merits and defects of older and newer concepts of dignity, including extensions of dignity to groups, animals, and machines.Trade ReviewOccupying a place front and center among important moral phenomena in need of robust explanation is the dignity of human persons. As such this perennially fascinating topic constitutes a powerful test case for rival explanatory candidates, an eminently telling clue to the import of the human condition and the very nature of reality. The essential dignity and unspeakably great worth of each and every human being is both a vital humanistic and humanizing doctrine, and an ineliminable moral datum that veritably cries out for adequate explanation to do it justice. The most penetrating explanations of human dignity refuse to domesticate or deflate it, but rather allow its full reverential and evidential force to be felt. This diverse collection adds a chorus of intelligent and insightful voices to this timely and timeless exploration, providing clarifying analysis, points of resonance and common ground across divergent views, as well as tensions and disagreements that ultimately, and instructively, may prove insuperable. — David Baggett, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Moral Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, USAThe political and legal battle over how we understand human dignity is right at the heart of the comprehensive crisis that is rocking the advanced modern world to its foundations, and there is no better scholarly exploration of that concept than the work published in these two invaluable volumes. — Greg Forster, Ph.D., Director, Oikonomia Network, Assistant Professor of Faith and Culture, Trinity International University, USAThe Inherence of Human Dignity, Vol. 1 and 2, deserves a wide readership. Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have drawn together an important collection of essays from a diverse group of authors in order to explore different conceptions of human dignity and how it is to be grounded. — Robert A. Larmer, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of New Brunswick, CanadaBussey and Menuge have edited a magisterial, brilliant two volume work that should be essential reading for anyone interested in a commitment to human dignity. — Charles Taliaferro Overby Distinguished Chair and Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, USA"Human rights protect human dignity. But what is human dignity? Why is it important? An international group of scholars comments first on grounding human dignity and second on human dignity’s competing conceptions. By editing these essays, Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have done the scholarly community a great service”.—Prof. dr. Paul Cliteur, Professor of Jurisprudence, Leiden University.“Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (or Maastricht Treaty, 1992) states that ‘The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights.’ This Article makes human dignity a notion that is relevant for legal scholars, politicians, and others who want to understand the foundations of contemporary European culture. Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have done an excellent job collecting some of the most thought-provoking contributions on this topic. This book deserves a wide readership.” — Prof. dr. Afshin Ellian, Professor of Jurisprudence, Leiden University.https://voegelinview.com/the-inherence-of-human-dignity/Table of ContentsIntroduction, Angus J. L. Menuge; Part I Grounding Human Dignity; Chapter One Human Dignity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ‘Old’ or ‘New’?, Laura Kittel; Chapter Two How Do We Justify Human Rights and Dignity?, Keith Thompson; Chapter Three May Critics of ‘Inherent Dignity’ Be Answered? Rejoinders from Christian Anthropology, David Guretzki; Chapter Four Three Sources of Human Dignity, Erik J. Wielenberg; Chapter Five Atheism and Theism: A Comparison of Metaphysical Foundations for Human Dignity, Paul Copan; Chapter Six Dignity and Tolerance: A Tension and a Challenge, Claudia Mariéle Wulf; Chapter Seven Human Dignity: What to Do with It? From Fruitless Abstraction to Meaningful Action, Hendrik Kaptein; Part II Competing Conceptions of Human Dignity; Chapter Eight Two Concepts of Dignity: On the Decay of Agency in Law, Åsbjørn Melkevik and Bjarne Melkevik; Chapter Nine Human Dignity as Law’s Foundation: An Outline for a Personalist Jurisprudence, Michał Rupniewski; Chapter Ten The Social Ontology of Human Dignity, Nicholas Aroney; Chapter Eleven How Not to Interpret Human Dignity: A Common Fallacy, Friedrich Toepel; Chapter Twelve The Nominalist Foundations of Constructivist Dignity, R. Scott Smith; Chapter Thirteen Artificial Dignity: The Humanizing and Dehumanizing Implications of Polanyi versus Turing’s Ontology, Andy Steiger; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Anthem Press The Inherence of Human Dignity: Law and Religious
Book SynopsisFocused on the more practical level, volume 2 seeks to understand the work dignity may do as a foundation for law, how it is related to religious liberty, and how we should adjudicate religious liberty disputes at the individual and corporate level. What is the sphere of human dignity that the law should be trying to protect? Is the role of dignity helpful as a foundational legal concept, and if so, how exactly? What is the status of religious liberty as a component of human dignity, and how is it to be balanced with other individual rights, such as freedom of expression? And finally, to what extent can the law adjudicate corporate religious claims?Trade Reviewhttps://voegelinview.com/the-inherence-of-human-dignity/Occupying a place front and center among important moral phenomena in need of robust explanation is the dignity of human persons. As such this perennially fascinating topic constitutes a powerful test case for rival explanatory candidates, an eminently telling clue to the import of the human condition and the very nature of reality. The essential dignity and unspeakably great worth of each and every human being is both a vital humanistic and humanizing doctrine, and an ineliminable moral datum that veritably cries out for adequate explanation to do it justice. The most penetrating explanations of human dignity refuse to domesticate or deflate it, but rather allow its full reverential and evidential force to be felt. This diverse collection adds a chorus of intelligent and insightful voices to this timely and timeless exploration, providing clarifying analysis, points of resonance and common ground across divergent views, as well as tensions and disagreements that ultimately, and instructively, may prove insuperable. — David Baggett, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Moral Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, USAThe political and legal battle over how we understand human dignity is right at the heart of the comprehensive crisis that is rocking the advanced modern world to its foundations, and there is no better scholarly exploration of that concept than the work published in these two invaluable volumes. — Greg Forster, Ph.D., Director, Oikonomia Network, Assistant Professor of Faith and Culture, Trinity International University, USAThe Inherence of Human Dignity, Vol. 1 and 2, deserves a wide readership. Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have drawn together an important collection of essays from a diverse group of authors in order to explore different conceptions of human dignity and how it is to be grounded. — Robert A. Larmer, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of New Brunswick, CanadaBussey and Menuge have edited a magisterial, brilliant two volume work that should be essential reading for anyone interested in a commitment to human dignity. — Charles Taliaferro Overby Distinguished Chair and Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, USA“Human rights protect human dignity. But what is human dignity? Why is it important? An international group of scholars comments first on grounding human dignity and second on human dignity’s competing conceptions. By editing these essays, Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have done the scholarly community a great service”.—Prof. dr. Paul Cliteur, Professor of Jurisprudence, Leiden University.“Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (or Maastricht Treaty, 1992) states that ‘The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights.’ This Article makes human dignity a notion that is relevant for legal scholars, politicians, and others who want to understand the foundations of contemporary European culture. Barry Bussey and Angus Menuge have done an excellent job collecting some of the most thought-provoking contributions on this topic. This book deserves a wide readership.” — Prof. dr. Afshin Ellian, Professor of Jurisprudence, Leiden University.Table of ContentsForeword, Heiner Bielefeldt; Table of cases; Introduction, Barry W. Bussey; Part I Dignity as Foundation of Law; Chapter One ‘Acts Which Have Outraged the Conscience of Humankind’, Clint Curle; Chapter Two Abstract Language and Invisible Associations: The Necessity for Clear Language to Maintain Genuine Rights and Freedoms, Iain T. Benson; Chapter Three Human Dignity as an Explicit Constitutional Norm, Katya Kozicki and William Soares Pugliese; Chapter Four Discovering Dignity in Adjudication: The Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Andrea Pin; Chapter Five The New Dignity Jurisprudence: A Critique, Angus J. L. Menuge; Chapter Six Against Group Dignity: Contemporary Human Rights Instruments and Their Attributions of Dignity to Groups, Dwight Newman, QC; Part II Religious Liberty and Human Dignity; Chapter Seven Religious Liberty and the Human Good, Robert P. George; Chapter Eight Human Dignity Found in Religious Community, Barry W. Bussey; Chapter Nine What ‘Rule of Law’ Programs Need in the Twenty-First Century, Dallas K. Miller; Chapter Ten Balancing Competing Dignity Claims: Insights from the United Kingdom and Italy, Matteo Frau and Vito Breda; Chapter Eleven Trinity Western University and the Future of Conservative Religious Education, Greg Walsh; Chapter Twelve Sacrifi cing Dignity to Protect Dignity: Human Dignity and Exclusion Zones in Australia, Michael Quinlan; Chapter Thirteen Respecting the Dignity of Religious Organizations: When Is It Appropriate for Courts to Decide Religious Doctrine?, Neil Foster; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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