{"title":"Book Review - John Clammer (1997) Contemporary Urban Japan: A sociology of consumption","authors":"Annamari Konttinen","doi":"10.1080/14036099950150008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950150008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133159843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Restrictive Control of Urban High-density Housing in Zimbabwe: Deregulation, Challenges and Implications for Urban Design","authors":"A. Kamete","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149992","url":null,"abstract":"The urban land use planning system in Zimbabwe thrives on controls and restrictions. Over the decades these controls have been moulded into laws that prior to 1994 managed to outlaw all non-residential activities from residential areas. The built environment professions have been used to ensure that residential areas are designed exclusively as living environments. Statutory Instrument 216 of 1994 partially deregulated industrial activities in residential areas. It recognized what had been known all the time, namely, that housing is not simply ?reproductive space?. This legal recognition of a home as both shelter and workplace has some fundamental design implications. This poses a new challenge to urban design, in terms of layout and building design, to satisfy the important aspects of health, safety and convenience, as well as function, economy, efficiency, compatibility and aesthetics. This paper reviews Zimbabwe's urban land use controls and the role of the built environment professions. It examines th...","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"12 36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131849457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"House and Home and their Interaction with Changes in New Zealand's Urban System, Households and Family Structures","authors":"Harvey C Perkins, D. Thorns","doi":"10.1080/14036099950149983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950149983","url":null,"abstract":"The place where we live is one of the key locales which shapes our sense of place and enables us to develop our sense of who we are. The paper explores the linkages between the literature on ?the home? and the meaning of place. We argue that ?homes? are special kinds of places and are socially constructed in a continual and changing process. Houses as material objects and homes as symbolic entities are shaped and reshaped by owners and tenants over time in response to both changes in the individual's life course and the social context within which they are set. We therefore interpret the meaning of home against the changing backdrop of New Zealand's urban system and the two decades of economic and social change from 1980 to the late 1990s.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131369971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Tenure to Rights: Conceptualizing the Changing Focus of Housing Law in England","authors":"S. Blandy, Barry Goodchild","doi":"10.1080/14036099950150071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950150071","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests a new way of conceptualizing tenure as a series of discourses that comprise respectively: (a) property law; (b) housing policy; and (c) housing status. Housing research has generally focused on housing policy discourse in a way that obscures legal relationships. In contrast, a focus on property and housing status has greater potential to make explicit the rights and obligations that arise in different situations. The ?bundle of rights? view provides the most acceptable statement of tenure relations in housing. It is the only view that covers both property and housing status and that can also make sense of tendencies towards juridification. The implication for research is to focus on the exact terms of rights, their changing distribution between different parties and their scope for enforcement. If research extends to a review of the origins and continuing rationale of rights, some form of narrative analysis is usually necessary.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116103062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review - Comerio, Mary C., (1998), Disaster Hits Home New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery","authors":"J. Scanlon, Hannu Ruonavaara","doi":"10.1080/14036099950150080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950150080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123705580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing Movements in the USA","authors":"P. Marcuse","doi":"10.1080/14036099950150026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950150026","url":null,"abstract":"Have conflicts around issues of housing given rise to ?social movements?, in the USA? Looking at the expectations for broad social change that have been attached to such movements in the recent past, the answer would have to be that housing alone has never provided the core of such a movement. However, an extensive review of the history of struggles around housing in the USA over the last two centuries suggests that housing issues can, under certain circumstances, become the subject of social struggles in which residents, as residents, can play a significant role in confronting systemic societal problems. Those circumstances are ones in which class (labor, employment, production) issues are linked to ideological/political issues, with housing issues as a major point of contact.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"24 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127462336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disablism in Housing and Comparative Community Care Discourse - Towards an Interventionist Model of Disability and Interventionist Welfare Regime Theory","authors":"C. Allen","doi":"10.1080/14036099950150053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950150053","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is presented in two parts. In this part I provide a critique of the socio-biological essentialism that infuses the community care discourses in ?housing studies? and ?comparative studies?. I argue that this biological essentialism has encouraged researchers to accept the common sense assumption that the ?special needs? of disabled people are per se located within the incompetent body/mind. The effect of this has resulted in the construction of a reductionist academic discourse. This propagates the notion that recent policy initiatives taken in Britain and other European countries (which now encourage the regulation of ?special needs? in the home, rather than in the so-called ?institution?) represent some form of cognate ?total change? or ?paradigm shift?. In addition, the paper also challenges ?radical sociologies? of disability that, in per se locating disability outwith the body/mind, lie at the other extreme. To this end, discourses within this mode of thought contend that these policy shift...","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125653415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Comparative Sociology of Residence and Disablement - Britain and Sweden in Interventionist Welfare Regime Perspective","authors":"C. Allen","doi":"10.1080/14036099950150017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950150017","url":null,"abstract":"In the first part of this paper, I developed the interventionist model of disability and, from this, interventionist regime theory. In this part of the paper, my empirical application of these conceptual models will enable me to refute the ?total change? and ?total statis? discourses in British housing and community care research, and the latent convergence that I have shown to predominate in divergent ?welfare regime? theorizing. I will achieve this through a ?middle-range? theorization that demonstrates how British housing and community care policies are infused with elements of both statis and flux, and how British and Swedish housing policies for disabled people are disjunctive constructs particular to these societies. In doing so, I will not enter into intricate details about these housing policies. Rather, I take the broad principles (and aims) that underpin housing policies as the starting points from which I abstract out towards a middle-range theorization.","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116027352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Privatizing Public Housing in the Welfare Regime of a Tiger Economy: A Case Study of Hong Kong","authors":"A. L. Grange","doi":"10.1080/14036099950150062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14036099950150062","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to locate the experience of privatizing public housing in the welfare regime of a tiger economy; Hong Kong. This welfare regime type is perhaps encapsulated by its emphasis on economic growth and the provision of social infrastructure, but with little commitment to the idea of transfer payments. Although Hong Kong is a tiger economy, the most fruitful framework for assessing the privatization policy is the factors which explain the impact of privatizing public housing in the old industrialized countries (OICs): the nature of the privatization policies themselves; the economic circumstances within which they have been implemented; and the mediating influence of politics and ideology on trends to privatize public housing. This assessment suggests that privatizing public housing in the welfare regime of a tiger economy is quite distinct from the experience in OICs. To date, privatization has primarily taken the form of build-for-sale schemes. Public rental housing has remained the key focus o...","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132418538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telework, the local community and ways of life","authors":"Kresten Storgaard","doi":"10.1080/02815739308730316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02815739308730316","url":null,"abstract":"Experiences from an experiment with telework and internal communication within a low‐rise urban housing estate are presented. First the concept of telework is discussed on the basis of the current ...","PeriodicalId":208179,"journal":{"name":"Housing Theory and Society","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126379265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}