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Decent Homes for All: Planning's Evolving Role in Housing Provision
Contributor(s): Gallent, Nick (Author), Tewdwr-Jones, Mark (Author)
ISBN: 041527446X     ISBN-13: 9780415274463
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $199.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2006
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Annotation: "Decent Homes for All" reviews the relationship between planning and housing provision over the last hundred years in Britain. The planning system has developed in tandem with housing policy, both of which find their contemporary roots in nineteenth century urbanism. Whilst the two may have common roots historically, they often display concernsand objectives today that appear contradictory. This book considers these tensions by examining three areas. Planning's Legacy considers the early years of the twentieth century, the onset of suburbia, the provision of modernist visions, and the deregulation of social housing. Planning's Problem consider issues that are currently affecting the planning-housing relationship, including urban containment, inner city housing, affordable housing, rural housing pressures, and the renaissance for high rise living. Planning's Future, finally, considers integration and policy issues in more detail and attempts to assess theoretically the relationships between planning and housing provision in the early years of the twenty first century.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning
- Architecture | Landscape
Dewey: 363.556
LCCN: 2006022381
Series: Housing, Planning and Design
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.55" W x 9.42" (1.34 lbs) 320 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

Are you concerned about the state of current housing provision? Worried about further decline in the years ahead? Decent Homes for All addresses fundamental questions about the current housing crisis; examining its history and evolution.

The first text on the housing-planning interface, it explores the relationship between planning and housing supply, focusing on housing supply, the quality and form of residential development, affordability and sustainability and the changing nature of planning itself. The questions covered include:

  • Why have we moved away from state housing provision?
  • How might the current crisis in housing affordability be addressed through planning policy?
  • Why has recent debate broadened to encompass the idea of 'sustainable communities'?
  • How will we deliver quality, affordable housing in the future?
  • What role should the planning system play in delivering decent homes in the years ahead?

This comprehensive narrative provides students, planners and researchers with a valuable account of the evolving relationship between planning and housing to aid contextual understanding and suggest how current issues might evolve in the future.