1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783855403321

Titolo

Housing and social change : East-West perspectives / / edited by Ray Forrest and James Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-48170-5

1-134-48171-3

0-415-27332-3

1-280-04929-4

0-203-40263-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Housing and society series

Classificazione

71.83

Altri autori (Persone)

ForrestRay

LeeJames <1950->

Disciplina

363.5

Soggetti

Housing

Housing policy

Home ownership

Urbanization

Housing - Asia

Housing policy - Asia

Home ownership - Asia

Urbanization - Asia

Asia Social conditions 21st century

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

Some reflections on the housing question / Ray Forrest -- Home-ownership in East and South East Asia : market, state and institutions / James Lee, Ray Forrest and Wai Keung Tam -- Restructuring social housing systems / Christine M. E. Whitehead -- Housing provision and management of aspirations / Chua Beng Huat.

Housing and regulation theory : domestic demand and global financialization / Alan Smart and James Lee -- Housing diversity in the global city / Sophie Watson -- Making of home in a global world : Aotearoa/New Zealand as an exemplar / Harvey Perkins and David



Thorns -- Home-ownership in an unstable world : the case of Japan / Yosuke Hirayama -- Home-ownership and changing housing and mortgage markets : the new economic realities / Peter Williams -- From welfare benefit to capitalized asset : the re-commodification of residential space in urban China / Deborah S. Davis -- Banking the unbanked : connecting residents of social housing to the financial mainstream / Michael A. Stegman -- Social sustainability, sustainable development and housing development : the experience of Hong Kong / Rebecca L. H. Chiu -- Urban reform and low-income communities in Chinese cities / Ya Ping Wang -- Concluding observations / Ray Forrest and James Lee.

Sommario/riassunto

This wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing is both policy-oriented and theoretical, drawing on a group of internationally-respected academics. It is also multidisciplinary, incorporating sociology, economics, social policy and human geography perspective. Its international perspective is rooted in its examination of issues such as economic insecurity and instability, social diversity, financial and social exclusion, sustainability, privatisation and state legitimacy, the interaction of the global and the local across three continents.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781916603321

Titolo

Twenty-first-century gateways [[electronic resource] ] : immigrant incorporation in suburban America / / Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, Caroline B. Brettell, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8157-7928-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

James A. Johnson metro series

Classificazione

74.94

71.37

Altri autori (Persone)

SingerAudrey

HardwickSusan Wiley

BrettellCaroline

Disciplina

305.9/069120973

Soggetti

Immigrants - United States

Social integration - United States

Suburbs - United States

Metropolitan areas - United States

United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects

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

Foreword / Henry Cisneros -- Acknowledgments -- Twenty-first-century gateways : an introduction / Audrey Singer -- Toward a suburban immigrant nation / Susan W. Hardwick -- "Big D" : incorporating new immigrants in a sunbelt suburban metropolis / Caroline B. Brettell -- Diverging trajectories : Asian and Latino immigration in metropolitan Phoenix / Alex Oberle and Wei Li -- Unsettled in the suburbs : Latino immigration and ethnic diversity in metro Atlanta / Mary E. Odem -- Edge gateways : immigrants, suburbs, and the politics of reception in metropolitan Washington / Marie Price and Audrey Singer -- Immigrant space and place in suburban Sacramento / Robin Datel and Dennis Dingemans -- Impediments to the integration of immigrants : a case study in the Twin Cities / Katherine Fennelly and Myron Orfield -- "Placing" the refugee diaspora in suburban Portland, Oregon / Susan W. Hardwick and James E. Meacham -- Austin : immigration and transformation deep in the heart



of Texas / Emily Skop and Tara Buentello -- The "Nuevo South" : Latino place making and community building in the middle-ring suburbs of Charlotte / Heather A. Smith and Owen J. Furuseth -- Afterword : coming to terms with federal and local immigration reform / Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, and Caroline B. Brettell.

Sommario/riassunto

"Focuses on the fastest-growing immigrant populations among "second-tier" metropolitan areas. Examines the changes wrought by these new suburban settlement patterns and provides comparative analysis of immigration trends and local policy responses in these gateways. Case examples explore the challenges of newcomer integration, as well as immigration's impact on suburban infrastructure"--Provided by publisher.