Harloe The People's Home?

Social Rented Housing in Europe and America
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9940-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

The People's Home is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries - Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harloe, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism.
1. Social Housing and the `Social Question': Housing Reformbefore 1914.
2. The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the GreatWar.
3. Social Housing in the Depression.
4. The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstructionand Growth.
5. Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the ContemporaryEra.
6. Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Harloe is Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. He is founder Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, published by Blackwell. Of his many books the most recent is Divided Cities: New York and London in the Contemporary World (Blackwell, 1992), co-edited with Susan Fainstein and Ian Gordon.