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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765811703321

Titolo

Housing and social transition in Japan / / edited by Yosuke Hirayama and Richard Ronald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2007

ISBN

1-134-17630-9

1-281-15840-2

9786611158408

0-203-96742-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Housing and society series

Disciplina

333.33/80952

Soggetti

Housing - Japan

Housing policy - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half Title: Housing and Social Transition in Japan; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Reshaping the housing system; 3 Transformations in housing construction and finance; 4 Welfare regime theories and the Japanese housing system; 5 Turning stock into cash flow; 6 Housing, family and gender; 7 Social exclusion and homelessness; 8 The Japanese home in transition; 9 Situating the Japanese housing system; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of the most enigmatic social, political, and economic systems of the modern world.While Japan demonstrates many of the characteristics of some western housing and social systems, including mass homeownership and consumption-based lifestyles, extensive economic growth and rapid urban