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List of contents
Contents: Local policy for housing development and the residential environment; Cross-national comparison of housing development processes; The incidence of costs and revenues; Actors and activities, roles and relations; Decisions about the residential environment; Local policy for housing development: lessons to be learnt; References; Appendix.
About the author
In 1995 he started, at the same university, a Ph.D. research project entitled: "Local policy for housing development: European experiences", which he finished in 2001. In this project he compared the development of new housing schemes in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
Summary
This title was first published in 2002: Using a cross-national study focusing on housing development processes in The Netherlands, the UK, Germany and France, this book develops an analytical framework to compare how decisions about the residential environment are made.
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’This is a very valuable detailed empirical study of the residential development process in France, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK. It combines an institutional analysis of the interplay of actors in the development process with careful attention to the different financial expenditures on the residential environment in different schemes. The study concludes with a comparative matrix relating degree and manner of reliance on market processes to the energy with which land policies are pursued. This is a very helpful addition to the literature on the interaction between policy and markets in the production of the built environment.’ Patsy Healey, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK '...a very good piece of work and should be used quite extensively in urban planning courses.' Journal of Housing and the Built Enviornment
