Routledge Library Editions: Housing
About the Book Series
This 15-volume set, first published between 1935 and 1995, provides a comprehensive resource for understanding housing from multiple perspectives – historical, economic, social, and political. Although the majority focus on Britain it also includes several titles with an international focus. Many volumes analyse the effectiveness and consequences of state intervention in housing markets. Overall a great resource for those interested in the history of housing and housing policies over time.
A Social History of Housing 1815–1985: Second Edition
1st Edition
By John Burnett
November 18, 2025
Originally published in 1986, for the second edition of this standard text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and important survey, covering over a ...
Housing Policy and the Housing System
1st Edition
By Alan Murie, Pat Niner, Christopher Watson
November 18, 2025
In the 1970s it was widely recognised that our planners and administrators were dealing not with a homogenous housing market but with a complex of housing sectors and sub-markets – with different locations, physical and social characteristics, tenures and costs. But although factual information was...
Housing Policy in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Gil Shidlo
November 18, 2025
Originally published in 1990, this title asks, what has been the role of the state vis-à-vis housing policy in developing countries over the last few years? To date there had been no significant attempt to deal comprehensively with state intervention in the housing market in the developing world, ...
Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ray Forrest, Alan Murie
November 18, 2025
Originally published in 1995, this innovative collection provides a multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on the links between housing, personal wealth and the family in contemporary society. Reasserting the role of the family and informal networks in housing provision, it counteracts a ...
Housing and Homelessness: A Feminist Perspective
1st Edition
By Sophie Watson
November 18, 2025
‘Houses do not simply represent a form of shelter; in addition they embody the dominant ideology of a society and reflect the way in which that society is organised.’ Originally published in 1986 and written by two leading authorities on the subject, this book tackles the problems of housing, ...
Housing and Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By James S. Duncan
November 18, 2025
Originally published in 1982, Housing and Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives represents an attempt by scholars in a number of different disciplines to bring a common social-psychological perspective to bear on the study of the house and its relation to the self and the nature of the social order...
Housing and the State: 1919–1944
1st Edition
By Marian Bowley
November 18, 2025
Originally published in 1945, the purpose of Housing and the State, 1919–1944 was not to lay down what the scope of housing policy should be after the war in Great Britain, or what particular building programme should be adopted. The aim was rather more modest, it was to describe and explain some ...
Housing, States and Localities
1st Edition
By Peter Dickens, Simon Duncan, Mark Goodwin, Fred Gray
November 18, 2025
A continual problem in modern societies is how housing of a good standard can be provided for all those who need it. Some countries, and some local areas within any one country, have clearly succeeded better than others. Originally published in 1985, Housing, States and Localities shows how and why...
In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America
1st Edition
By Alan Gilbert
November 18, 2025
Originally published in 1993, In Search of a Home filled a conspicuous gap in the literature on housing in the developing world at the time. For many years, self-help settlement and the owner-occupier had commanded the attention of governments and researchers, leaving huge numbers of tenants and ...
National Housing Finance Systems: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Mark Boleat
November 18, 2025
Originally published in 1985, this book provided a broad review of the range of systems of housing finance used throughout the developed and developing world at the time. It surveys the development of housing finance and the ways in which individual countries, with different economic structures, ...
Public Housing: Current Trends and Future Developments
1st Edition
Edited
By David Clapham, John English
November 18, 2025
Originally published in 1987, public rented housing in Britain had undergone many changes in the decade before, which had been accelerated by the policies of the Conservative government since 1979. With financial incentives and the ‘right to buy’, owner occupation was being vigorously promoted as ...
Routledge Library Editions: Housing: 15 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Various
November 18, 2025
This 15-volume set, first published between 1935 and 1995, provides a comprehensive resource for understanding housing from multiple perspectives – historical, economic, social, and political. Although the majority focus on Britain it also includes several titles with an international focus. Many ...