Housing and residential structure : Alternative approaches / Keith Bassett and John R. Short

Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter 1: Introduction: approaches to housing and urban spatial structure -- Part 1: Perspectives on housing and residential structure: early formulations, criticisms and recent developments: Chapter 2: The ecological tradition -- Chapter 3: Neo-classical economic models -- Chapter 4: Behavioral perspectives and urban spatial interaction models -- Chapter 5: Power, conflict and urban managerialism -- Part II: Institutional structures and constraints in housing markets: Chapter 6: The role of agents in the private housing market -- Chapter 7: Public policy, local government and urban housing markets -- Part III: Marxist approaches to housing and residential structure: Chapter 8: Marxist theory and Marxist method: an introduction -- Chapter 9: Marxist approaches to housing: an overview Chapter 10: Integrated theories of housing, urbanisation and capital accumulation: the work of Castells and Harvey -- Chapter 11: Themes and controversies in Marxist approaches to housing -- Bibliography -- Index.

The authors' main aim is to take stock of the enormous changes that have taken place in recent years in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential structure. Part1 focuses on the demand-oriented approaches of human ecology and neo-classical economics. Part II discusses the institutional approaches with reference to an analysis of private and public sector housing in Britain, drawing on illustrative material from North America and France to aid the comparative analysis of institutional structures. Part III is devoted to an evaluation of the Marxist approaches to housing and residential structure form Marx and Engels to Castells and Harvey. Housing and Residential Structure, unique in its approach, will be of particular interest to lecturers and students of geography, sociology, politics, urban economics and planning.