The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines....

Introduction -- Housing Reform and the Housing Market in Urban China -- Theoretical Background: Affordability and Its Measurement -- Housing Affordability in Urban China: National Study -- Housing Affordability in urban China: Regional Study -- Effects of Housing Policy on Affordability --...

Teurer, teurer, wohnen in der Stadt -- Alles nur eine spekulative Blase? -- Viele neue Einwohner, kaum neue Wohnungen -- Weshalb so wenig gebaut wird -- Angebot und Nachfrage: 10 Maßnahmen, die den Markt in Schwung bringen -- Drei Irrwege der Wohnungspolitik -- Zurück aufs Land? --...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of housing theory and policy with a focus on metropolitan regions. The results are based on case studies of twelve European metropolitan regions, including expert panels organized in each. Using an approach from the field of industrial economics, the...

Preface -- Ecological Crisis, Eco-civilization and Eco-city -- An Evaluation on China’s Eco-city Construction -- Environment-Friendly City -- Resource-Saving City -- Green Industry City -- Circular Economy city -- Landscape and Leisure city -- Green Consumption city.

Changing the Rules of Development: Institutional Innovation in Rebuilding China’s Shanty Towns -- Slum Upgrading Policies of China’s Shanty Towns -- Financing Development of Shanty Towns Upgrading -- Systems of Land and Security of Tenure -- Housing Development and Sustainable -- Economic...

1 Introduction -- 2 Urban Models -- 3 Urban Models in Italy: Partnership Forms, PPP, Territorial Contexts, Tools, Results -- 4 Large-Scale Restructuring Processes in the Urban Space of Budapest -- 5 PPP in Urban Development in Germany: Illustrated on Two Pilot Projects in Leipzig -- 6 Conclusion

Interpretative Models of Urban Intervention -- Impact of the General Model on Specific Case Studies -- Participation and the Socio-Political Foundations of the Management of Urban Redevelopments -- Case Studies -- Conclusion