Economic History of Cities and Housing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baba, Satoshi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan,
• Subjects: Social policy.; Economic history.; Urban economics.; Economics.; Economic History.; Urban Economics.; Social Policy.

This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems. Through this boo...