Somewhere to live : rising to the global urban land and housing challenge / Geoffrey Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payne, Geoffrey K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing--Political aspects.

Housing.

Land use, Urban--Political aspects.

Land use, Urban.

Low-income housing--Political aspects.

Low-income housing.

Land use.

Physical Description:

xix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Publishing, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Key issues

1. Setting the scene

2. The cultural context

3. Cities, growth, and the climate crisis

4. The scourge of inequality

5. People on the move

6. Utopia or dystopia? Changing visions of urban development

pt. II How we value urban land and housing

7. To have and to hold

8. The global move to market

9. From feudal to market in the UK: A property-owning democracy?

10. State land and housing management in China, Cuba, Ethiopia, and Vietnam

11. From state to market in Mongolia, Albania, and Cambodia

12. From customary to market: Lesotho and Vanuatu, with lessons from part two

pt. III What needs to be done

13. Growth and sustainability

14. Managing urban land markets: From problems to progress in land management

15. Promoting tenure security and diversity

16. Spatial planning and land use for adequate housing

17. Homes not housing

18. Making it happen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-306) and index.

ISBN:

9781788530965

1788530969

9781788531795

1788531795

OCLC:

1292974469