Housing Economics: A Historical Approach
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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.-
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1137472707
ISBN13:9781137472700
Release Date:May 2016
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:313 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"
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