Booktopia has been placed into Voluntary Administration. Orders have been temporarily suspended, whilst the process for the recapitalisation of Booktopia and/or sale of its business is completed, following which services may be re-established. All enquiries from creditors, including customers with outstanding gift cards and orders and placed prior to 3 July 2024, please visit https://www.mcgrathnicol.com/creditors/booktopia-group/
Add free shipping to your order with these great books
Housing in Developing Cities : Experience and Lessons - Patrick Wakely

Housing in Developing Cities

Experience and Lessons

By: Patrick Wakely

Hardcover | 11 January 2018

Sorry, we are not able to source the book you are looking for right now.

We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the author's name, or use the search box above to find your book.

Universally, the production, maintenance and management of housing have been, and continue to be, market-based activities. Nevertheless, since the mid-twentieth century virtually all governments, socialist and liberal alike, have perceived the need to intervene in urban housing markets in support of low-income households who are denied access to the established (private sector) housing market by their lack of financial resources.

Housing in Developing Cities

examines the range of strategic policy alternatives that have been employed by state housing agencies to this end. They range from public sector entry into the urban housing market through the direct construction of ('conventional') 'public housing' that is let or transferred to low-income beneficiaries at sub-market rates, to the provision of financial supports (subsidies) and non-financial incentives to private sector producers and consumers of urban housing, and to the administration of ('non-conventional') programmes of social, technical and legislative supports that enable the production, maintenance and management of socially acceptable housing at prices and costs that are affordable to low-income urban households and communities. It concludes with a brief review of the direction that public housing policies have been taking at the start of the 21st century and reflects on 'where next', making a distinction between 'public housing' and 'social housing' strategies and how they can be combined in a 'partnership' paradigm for the 21st

century.

Industry Reviews

"Patrick Wakely draws on 40 years of experience to examine the range of policy alternatives used by States to intervene in urban housing markets in support of low-income households. This is much needed."

Emma Wragg, International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

"Wakely uses his unique understanding and vast experience to bring clear and practical solutions to the vexed challenge of housing in developing countries. Whereas most written policies typically benefit a small minority - the middle class and civil servants - Wakely's approaches empowers the urban poor, both as users and producers of housing. This should be required reading for practitioners and policy makers alike."

William Cobbett, Director, Cities Alliance

"Patrick Wakely's new book is nothing short of the book that we all need in order to understand both how the huge growth in cities in the developing world is being managed, and how communities on extremely low incomes are getting by; providing their own housing with some public support and progressing their life chances. It is an invaluable guide to both the experience of housing in developing cities and the importance of recognising the potential of informal and semi-formal urban development, combined with a guiding public hand. I hope this book will help many people understand this dynamic process, as it will certainly help me."

Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy and Head of LSE Housing and Communities, London School of Economics

"This book is an excellent synopsis of fifty year's of practice in the provision of housing in developing countries. Patrick Wakely brings wide and thoughtful experience to this subject. The book focuses on 'the how' housing has actually been created and for whom. It is a needed counterpoint to the declaration of global goals which focus on the 'what'."

Michael Cohen, Professor of International Affairs, The New School, New York

More in Landscape Art & Architecture

Good City Form : Mit Press - Kevin Lynch

RRP $140.00

$87.50

37%
OFF
Sustainable Development : 2nd edition - Susan Baker

RRP $92.99

$73.50

21%
OFF
Smart Cities For Dummies : For Dummies (Computer/Tech) - Jonathan Reichental
Oriental Lifestyle - DESIREE SADEK

RRP $125.00

$78.50

37%
OFF
Energy Overlays : Land Art Generator Initiative - Robert Ferry

RRP $70.00

$47.35

32%
OFF
Introduction To Environmental Impact Assessment : 5th Edition - John Glasson
Sewer : Object Lessons - Jessica Leigh Hester

$20.90

Resisting the Holocaust : Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors - Paul R. Bartrop
Research Design in Urban Planning : A Student's Guide - Stuart Farthing

FREE SHIPPING

Urban Planning Theory since 1945 : Urban Studies - Nigel Taylor

FREE SHIPPING

RRP $108.00

$60.90

44%
OFF