Housing & Urban Development

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land? In this accessible but provocative...

Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach their land law course with confidence. Experts in the area, the authors combine clear and insightful commentary with carefully chosen...

A fully updated 4th edition of the definitive work on permitted changes of use. The extensive changes to the Use Classes Order in 2020 were clearly going to be followed by consequential amendments to the GPDO, especially to permitted development rights...

Housing matters a great deal. The present housing market has worked well for many of us (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of our homes) which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for increasing numbers it now works less...

The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home.*'You will marvel at the beauty of this book, and rage at the injustice it reveals' George Monbiot**'Incredibly moving. To find peace and a sense of home after a...

As cities expand and rents rise, what does it really mean to have a home? 'A marvel, by an inspiring and deeply humane writer' - Philippe Sands A home is important because it offers sanctuary and privacy. It can help improve mental health and...

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind) offers a useful and intelligible overview of our housing...

Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched...

Housing Law Handbook is an essential resource for housing lawyers and advisers. It combines comprehensive coverage of the substantive law with a practical approach, focusing on procedure and the common problems faced by practitioners, from court...

"This is the book on the law relating to homelessness." The Law Society Gazette* "An indispensable commentary on and guide to a complex and fast-moving area of the law: a must-have for academics, specialist practitioners and busy local government...

A Guide to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a strong foundation in commercial landlord and tenant, and housing law. The book is designed to provide a complete course text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students from surveying and real estate...

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches. This mixed methodology makes an ideal introduction to...

The Guardian top 5 books on the housing crisis in the UK ''The housing crisis is just getting started,' warns Timperley in this important book.' - MARTIN CHILTON, THE INDEPENDENT 'An essential read about a broken housing market.' - PETER APPS,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845861117Author Peter RobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Discovery PressPublisher Dundee University Press LtdDimensions(mm) 155mm * 234mm * 28mm

Planning law is one of the most fast moving legal areas, with major structural changes to the planning system occurring since 2014 . Despite these attempts at simplification, it remains one of the most complex fields for both students and practitioners...

In All That is Solid Danny Dorling offers an agenda-shaping look at the UK's dangerous relationship with housing - and how it's all going to come crashing downHousing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant...

In July 2018 a revised National Planning Policy Framework was published, coming into effect immediately. First published in 2012, the NPPF is the primary expression of the Government's planning policies for England. The NPPF sets out a framework for...

This fully revised and updated edition of Construction Contracts: Questions and Answers includes 300 questions and incorporates 42 new judicial decisions, the JCT 2016 updates and the RIBA Building Contracts and Professional Services Contracts 2018...

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual...

Widely heralded as a "masterful" (The Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments...

The Essential Guide to the Use of Land and Buildings under the Planning Acts is the definitive handbook explaining the legal rules governing the use of land and buildings as well as material changes of use. The text first sets out the rules that apply...

The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and...

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.Stuart Hodkinson has those answers...

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law? This is the central question that is explored in this book, which develops a framework to support judges...

The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and impact. Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author...

Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. Homelessness is unequivocally devastating. In the UK, people affected by homelessness are ten times more likely to die than their peers in the general population, yet we still miss important opportunities to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614279136Author Jacob a RiisFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Martino Fine BooksPublisher Martino Fine BooksWeight(grams) 358g

Statutory Nuisance and Residential Property: Environmental Health Problems in Housing examines the statutory nuisance provisions in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 pertaining to the condition of premises and related problems in housing and compares...

The Environment Act received Royal Assent in December 2021. It is a landmark piece of legislation creating a new governance framework that will regulate how the nation manages biodiversity, water resources and air pollution to name just a few, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957582934Author Lynden SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Green Yaffle PressPublisher Green Yaffle PressWeight(grams) 132g

Inspecting and Diagnosing Disrepair provides housing officers, surveyors, landlords, tenants, lawyers and environmental health inspectors with the essential information they need to record, diagnose and remedy disrepair. Pat Reddin presents technical...

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era - the UK's housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on the planet, with London virtually the most expensive major city in the world for renting or buying a home...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876298213Author Michael PuglieseFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint R.S. Means Company LtdPublisher R.S. Means Company LtdWeight(grams) 608g

Published in 1998, current themes in housing are explored in this collection of papers. The gamut of issues surrounding participation, such as tenant participation or decision-making participation, together with the forces leading to exclusion, such as...

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Aspects of Housing Law provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of what is often regarded as a complex and technical area of the law. It is essential reading for students of housing law and those taking courses in housing studies.With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781003254980Author Mariana ValverdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between homes and neighbourhoods over the lifespan. This book presents a life course framework for understanding...

Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800082892Author Maria LeeFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 600g