The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies

William Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Trained as an ecologist, his research focuses on the interactions of environment, development and health concerns in international affairs. At Harvard, he currently co-directs the Sustainability Science Program. He is co-author of Adaptive environmental assessment and management (Wiley, 1978), and Redesigning rural development (Hopkins, 1982); editor of the Carbon dioxide review (Oxford, 1982); coeditor of Sustainable development of the biosphere (Cambridge, 1986), The earth transformed by human action (Cambridge, 1990), Learning to manage global environmental risks (MIT, 2001), Global Environmental Assessments (MIT, 2006) and The global health system: Institutions in a time of transition (Harvard, 2010); and co-chair of the US National Research Council's study Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (NAP, 1999). He serves on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Clark is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize, the Humboldt Prize, the Kennedy School's Carballo Award for excellence in teaching, and the Harvard College Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Preface PART ONE: HOUSING MARKETS - Kenneth Gibb Understanding Housing Markets: Real Progress or Stalled Agendas? - Duncan MacLennan House-Building and Housing Supply - Michael Ball Housing Behaviour - Maarten van Ham Residential Mobility and the Housing Market - William A.V. Clark Neighbourhoods and Their Role in Creating and Changing Housing - George Galster PART TWO: APPROACHES - David Clapham The Neo-Liberal Legacy to Housing Research - Christine M. E. Whitehead Institutional Economics - Kenneth Gibb Social Geographic Interpretations of Housing Spaces - Tim Butler and Chris Hamnett Social Policy Approaches to Housing Research - David Clapham Social Constructionism and beyond in Housing Research - David Clapham A Review of Structurally Inspired Approaches in Housing Studies: Concepts, Contributions and Future Perspectives - Julie Lawson Housing Politics and Political Science - Bo Bengtsson People: Environment Studies - Roderick Lawrence PART THREE: CONTEXT - William A. V. Clark Housing and the Economy - Geoffrey Meen Housing and Welfare Regimes - Walter Matznetter and Alexis Mundt Housing Markets, the Life Course and Migration up and down the Urban Hierarchy - Christopher Bitter and David A. Plane Housing and Social Life - Ray Forrest Housing: From Low Energy to Zero Carbon - Phillip Jones PART FOUR: POLICY ISSUES - Kenneth Gibb Homelessness - Suzanne Fitzpatrick Affordable Housing - Chris Leishman and Steven Rowley Housing Subsidies - Judith Yates Ethnic Residential Segregation: Reflections on Concepts, Levels and Effects - Sako Musterd Social Consequences of Residential Segregation and Mixed Neighbourhoods - Ronald van Kempen and Gideon Bolt Managing Social Housing - Hugo Priemus Conclusion - David Clapham

The comprehensive volume we have long been waiting for. Chapters by leading scholars from many disciplines offer students, housing professionals and policy analysts an insightful examination of the complex aspects of the housing sector. -- Andrejs Skaburskis So, what is a 'handbook of housing studies' actually for? Who will benefit from this book? Housing scholors will want to take a look at chapters in their research areas, but I suggest going beyond this and taking the opportunity to widen horizons. Scholars from other disciplines will benefit enormously from many chapters. And, of course, the handbook is a very valuable resource for students, with many chapters forming a good starting point for further study. -- Jenny Muir [U]nique in bringing together essays from a range of countries, on multiple issues, and from diverse and explicit economic and social perspectives. I have found myself recommending this book to colleagues from economics, public policy and urban planning as a broad yet focused introduction to the state of the art in housing studies research. The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies is a hugely important contribution to the field of housing studies, and should be in the library of every university, and on the shelves - or desks - of housing scholars everywhere. -- Emily Silverman ...an admirable consolidation of current knowledge and provides an excellent overview of contemporary housing issues. -- Richard Ronald I challenge anyone to dip into this text without taking something new and important away. It is a 'state-of-the-art' collection, which offers an interdisciplinary even transdisciplinary perspective on the most important themes in the field; it is a fine, thought-provoking read. -- Susan J. Smith, Department of Geography and Girton College, Cambridge University