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Informationen zum Autor David Adams is Ian Mactaggart Professor of Property and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. Craig Watkins , Reader, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield. Klappentext The location of new housing development has become one of the mostintractable controversies of modern times. This book provides apowerful critique of the growing tendency to reduce the debate onthe development of new housing to a mere choice between greenfieldand brownfield locations. It calls for full account to be taken ofsuch factors as the structure and organisation of the housebuildingindustry, supply and demand pressures in the housing market, thecontested nature of sustainability and the political character ofthe planning process if a truly effective housing land policy is tobe devised.Drawing on theories from economics and political science, thisbook will provide an important reference point on the institutionalcontext within which residential development takes place and on theconcerns of planning authorities, environmentalists, housebuilders,and their customers in relation to the apparent choice betweengreenfield and brownfield development. Zusammenfassung If new housing is to be sustainable! it must be considered in the contest of its surrounding community! The location of new housing is one of the most intractable controversies of modern times. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: THE POLICY CONTEXT - Introduction; The changing context of housing development; The sustainability of new housing development; The residential planning process;. Part 2: MARKET, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONTEXT - The speculative housebuilding industry; The politics of planning and housing development;. PART 3 POLICY EVALUATION - Greenfield housing development; Brownfield housing development; The economics of planning and housing development; Conclusions and policy implications; Bibliography; Index ...
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Part 1: THE POLICY CONTEXT - Introduction; The changingcontext of housing development; The sustainability of new housingdevelopment; The residential planning process;.
Part 2: MARKET, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONTEXT - Thespeculative housebuilding industry; The politics of planning andhousing development;.
PART 3 POLICY EVALUATION - Greenfield housingdevelopment; Brownfield housing development; The economics ofplanning and housing development; Conclusions and policyimplications; Bibliography; Index
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David Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of the RICS Foundation, issupportive of the authors conclusions:
"We welcome the government s proposed increase in thequantities of affordable housing, but would echo the findings ofGreenfields, Brownfields and Housing Development in urgingministers to look closely at how solutions to housing shortages canbecome catalysts for increased local prosperity and improvedquality of life".
"Overall Greenfields, Brownfields and Housing Developmentmakes an excellent and timely contribution to debate in this field.The political - economic barriers to more compact forms ofdevelopment are identified and the authors conclude that the statewill need to play a more active role in the development process ifa more sustainable form of housing development is to be achieved."Town Planning Review July 2003
This book provides the reader with a very soundunderstanding of the way in which house builders, planners and allthose with an interest in development are accommodating policychange since the mid 1990s. It draws on a wealth of researchexperience and provides a very useful mix of material....animportant milestone Journal of Housing and the BuiltEnvironment.
I learned a lot from this book and it is important to anyoneworking or doing research in the field of contemporary housingdevelopment European Planning Studies Vol 11, No 8
