Urban Social Housing - Global Health and Climate Change Mitigation and Redress

This book stimulates and contributes to the search for strategic approaches to the production, maintenance and management of urban low-income group housing and the historical, geographic, cultural/political and economic contexts within which it is set. It includes case studies from Northern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

List of contents

Foreword (by Robert Biel)
Preface & Introduction
Chapter 1. Prevailing and emerging policy approaches
Chapter 2. Implementation strategies
Chapter 3. Land & Location
Chapter4. Land use and landscape planning & management
Chapter 5. Legislation, norms, standards and land use planning
Chapter6. Financial support and the way ahead.

About the author

Patrick Wakely is an independent Policy Adviser and Professor Emeritus of Urban Development in London University and former Director of the Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL). An architect (AA Dipl, London), he has 40 years of experience of research, consultancy and teaching in housing, planning and urban development, on which he has worked in more than 20 countries.

Summary

This book stimulates and contributes to the search for strategic approaches to the production, maintenance and management of urban low-income group housing and the historical, geographic, cultural/political and economic contexts within which it is set. It includes case studies from Northern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Wakely, Wakely Patrick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2024
• EAN: 9781032737065
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273706-5
• No. of pages: 86
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Urban & municipal planning, Social discrimination & inequality, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Social discrimination and social justice