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Hovels to Highrise
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 75.95Hovels to Highrise traces how governments in five European countries became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high density concrete estates. As the book considers each country's housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and systems, it finds convergence of problems in the growing... more...
City Survivors
The Policy Press 2007; US$ 36.95This book provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community, regeneration and public services. more...
Estates on the Edge
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 64.00Estates on the Edge recounts the decline and rescue of low-income government-sponsored housing estates across Northern Europe giving a vivid account of the intense physical, social and organisational problems facing social landlords in five countries. The ownership, management and letting patterns diverge sharply between the Continent, Britain and... more...
A Leader's Guide to Leveraging Diversity
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 39.95Leveraging Diversity: Strategic Learning Capabilities for Breakthrough Performance is designed to help business leaders and diversity practitioners alike conquer the complexity and take advantage of the opportunities associated with working productively with diversity. The book presents a clear direction for building the strategic learning capabilities... more...
Jigsaw Cities
The Policy Press 2007; US$ 42.95This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw; they are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal. How did our major cities become so divided? How do they respond to housing and neighbourhood decay?Jigsaw Cities examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's... more...
East Enders
The Policy Press 2003; US$ 34.50This moving book about the lives of families in London's East End gives important new insights into neighbourhood relations (including race relations), through the eyes of the local community. more...
Phoenix Cities
The Policy Press 2010; US$ 49.50This book explores economic, social and environmental transformations in Europe and the USA to inform the regeneration of 'weak market cities'. more...
Family futures
The Policy Press 2011; US$ 42.95Based on a unique longitudinal study, this timely book examines the initiatives introduced to help families and the impacts on them, their future prospects and the implications for policy. more...
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