The Future of Public Housing Ongoing Trends in the East and the West
Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalization
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Future of Public Housing
Ongoing Trends in the East and the West
The Future of Public Housing
Jie Chen • Mark Stephens • Yanyun Man Editors
The Future of Public Housing Ongoing Trends in the East and the West
Editors Jie Chen School of Public Economics and Administration Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
Mark Stephens School of the Built Environment Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Yanyun Man College of Urban and Environmental Sciences Peking University Beijing, People’s Republic of China Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, USA
ISBN 978-3-642-41621-7 ISBN 978-3-642-41622-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-41622-4 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013956596 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Introduction This book aims to examine the recent remarkable revival in public housing in the Asian and other emerging urban economies, set against the continued stagnation and decline of the sector in the western countries. In the twentieth century, public housing was a common response to urbanization and the urban housing problem in western capitalist, European and Asian socialist and
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