Housing Economics A Historical Approach /

• Main Authors: Meen, Geoffrey (Author), Gibb, Kenneth (Author), Leishman, Chris (Author), Nygaard, Christian A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Cities and towns > History.; Economics.; Management science.; Social policy.; Urban economics.; Economics, general.; Social Policy.; Urban Economics.; Urban History.

The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housi...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Introduction: Why a Historical Approach?
• 2. A Tale of Three Victorian Cities: Exploring Local Case Studies
• 3. Key Concepts from the Literature
• 4. Geology and Cities
• 5. Wars, Epidemics and Early Housing Policy: The Long-run Effects of Temporary Disturbances
• 6. Speculation, Sub-division, Banking Fraud and Enlightened Self-interest: The Making of the Contemporary Glasgow Housing System
• 7. Building Our Way Out of Trouble
• 8. Residential Density Revisited: Sorting and Household Mobility
• 9. Path Dependence, the Spatial Distribution of Immigrant Communities and the Demand for Housing
• 10. Affordability and the Rise and Fall of Home Ownership
• 11. On the Persistence of Poverty and Segregation
• 12. Final Reflections
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