Housing Development

Theory, Process and Practice

Ron Blake (Anglia Ruskin University, UK), Andrew Golland

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Routledge
06 November 2003

Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Homelessness; Welfare & benefit systems; Human geography; The environment; Regional & area planning; Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

For the first time in one place Housing Development brings together information on housing production, housing provision and the housing environment, highlighting the theoretical and policy contexts in which housing development

takes place as an integrated process. Previously knowledge about housing has been available only from widely disparate sources focused on the traditional disciplines of construction, design, building control, planning, economics, sociology

and psychology, leaving scope for a fresh holistic overview

of how the separate inputs into the housing development process actually interact in practice. Housing Development reviews the full range of factors that have influenced the location, siting, quality and viability of housing in the United Kingdom, and explores the reasons for different housing outcomes in different situations, past and present. Chapters include discussion of housing demand and need, the private house-building industry, social housing and the role of government, planning and land supply, site appraisal and estate layout, dwelling construction and design, finance, procurement and marketing, technical innovation, sustainable development, urban capacity, refurbishment, and comparisons with housing

in other European countries. Students will be familiarised with important topical issues such as flooding, contamination, urban regeneration and mixed-use development, and helped in their career choices through reference to the wide range of enterprises, agencies and institutions that employ staff in pursuit of housing development. Architects, building contractors, surveyors and other professionals will also gain useful insights into the background to perennial housing development problems and the significance of trends currently affecting the successful realisation of housing development projects. This user-friendly volume also includes learning objectives, indicative educational assignments, suggested topics

for dissertations and theses, priorities for commissioned research, annotated guides to further reading, a glossary of terms, an extensive index, and details of relevant websites.

A selection of maps, diagrams, tables and photographs are included in support of the ideas discussed.

Edited by: Ron Blake (Anglia Ruskin University UK), Andrew Golland
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 725g
ISBN: 9780415234337
ISBN 10: 0415234336
Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series
Pages: 428
Publication Date: 06 November 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Golland is Senior Research Fellow and Ron Blake is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Residential Development, at Nottingham Trent University.

Reviews for Housing Development: Theory, Process and Practice

Mosley is that rare bird: an English writer whose imagination is genuinely inspired by intellectual conundrums. - Robert Nye, Guardian; Mosley is the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas. - Robert McFarlane, Times