Housing and Communities Books

New and Published Books

1. Non-traditional Houses

   Identifying Non-traditional Houses in the UK 1918-75 (AP 294)

   By Harry Harrison, Stephen Mullin, Barry Reeves, Alan Stevens

   Non-traditional houses was first published as a book in 2004 and is now available in a fully searchable pdf format on CD ROM. The CD ROM gives building surveyors, engineers and architects easy access to a vast reference library detailing 450 non-traditional house types classified by form of...

   Published December 18th 2012 by IHS BRE Press
2. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness

   Edited by Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne

   Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

   Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Gated Communities

   Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments

   Edited by Samer Bagaeen, Ola Uduku

   Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon. The book presents a collection of new writing on the...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. Environmental Gerontology

   What Now?

   Edited by Rick Scheidt, Benyamin Schwarz

   Environmental gerontology – the research on aging and environment – evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people. The field proliferated during the 1970s and 1980s, and remains viable and active today...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. Crime and Planning

   Building Socially Sustainable Communities

   By Derek J. Paulsen, Ph.D.

   The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community crime patterns. Effective urban planners and designers will consider crime when making planning and design decisions. A co-publication with the...

   Published November 6th 2012 by CRC Press
6. The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

   By Nick Wates

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1976, this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants’ groups, community associations, students, squatters, intellectuals, political parties, and property developers at Tolmers Square in north London. The author describes how property developers, interested only in...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Young People and Housing

   Transitions, Trajectories and Generational Fractures

   Edited by Ray Forrest, Ngai-Ming Yip

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in search of permanent housing. Featuring international case studies from Asia, Europe, and Australia, Young People and Housing is a collection of...

   Published October 1st 2012 by Routledge
8. Housing and Social Transition in Japan

   Edited by Yosuke Hirayama, Richard Ronald

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Affordable Housing Reader

   Edited by Elizabeth Mueller, Rosie Tighe

   The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground. The Reader – aimed at professors, students, and...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Sustainable Collective Housing

    Policy and Practice for Multi-family Dwellings

    By Lee Ann Nicol

    Housing stocks provide much more than just shelter. Energy suppliers, pension fund managers and public transit providers are but a few of the many stakeholders that have a regulated interest in the non-shelter goods and services offered by housing. Such stakeholders and their activities...

    Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge