Planning and Housing - Research
Collection: Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
Four Volumes
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At Home with Autism
Designing Housing for the Spectrum
Grounded in an extensive array of research sources, this valuable book introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that demand a new approach to how we provide, locate, design and develop homes in which they live.
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Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit
An International and Interdisciplinary Perspective
A wide range of contributors bring expertise from both developed and developing countries, to provide a big picture assessment of Bus Rapid Transit as part of an affordable process for restructuring transit systems
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Regenerating Deprived Urban Areas
A Cross National Analysis of Area-Based Initiatives
This book compares the impacts of ABIs in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany on organisations and development actors at the neighbourhood level. It applies a mixed method approach to help the reader with a wider spectrum of illustrations and is aimed at those studying and working in the field of urban regeneration and planning.
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Housing transitions through the life course
Aspirations, needs and policy
Lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market and a greater emphasis on consumption. This important contribution to the literature argues that how we think about households and their housing needs to be recast to acknowledge this changed environment and provide a more powerful conceptual framework.
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New Labour's countryside
Rural policy in Britain since 1997
A timely and critical review and analysis of the development and implementation of New Labour's rural policies since 1997.
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Transport Matters
The book shows that transport matters and examines how and why efficient and effective transport is fundamental to all manner of public policy goals. Contributors explore transport’s social, economic and environmental consequences and demonstrate how we could do things differently to promote a better future for everyone.
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Mixed Communities
Gentrification by Stealth?
This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth.
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Gypsies and Travellers in Housing
The Decline of Nomadism
This is the first published research from the UK to address the neglected topic of the increasing settlement of Gypsies and Travellers in conventional housing. It highlights the complex and emergent tensions and dynamics inherent when policy and popular discourse combine to frame ethnic populations within a narrative of movement.
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Why Travel?
Understanding our Need to Move and How it Shapes our Lives
This book brings together leading experts to show how our travel choices are shaped by a wide range of social, physical, psychological and cultural factors, which have profound implications for the design of future transport policies.
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Private Renting in the Advanced Economies
Growth and Change in a Financialised World
This edited collection analyses recent changes in the private rental housing market, using case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA, and assesses the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why Face-to-Face Still Matters
The Persistent Power of Cities in the Post-Pandemic Era
Why do businesses still value urban life over the suburbs or countryside? This accessible book makes the case for Face-to-Face contact, still considered crucial to many 21st century economies, and provides tools for thinking about the future of places from market towns to World Cities.
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