Among the factors influencing the learning and developmental processes that lead to educational achievement, most scientists believe that the social environment plays a significant role. The importance of residential location in affecting children's education, however, is subject on which there is conflicting evidence and little agreement. Given the increase in the spatial concentration of pove...

This paper reviews the arguments and some of the evidence on the emergence of gated communities and contends that the concept of the partitioned city has a useful application both in the private sector and public sector housing. The focus of the paper will be the UK context, and developments that have been largely ignored to date. The paper utilises the concept of ‘club economics’ to consider t...

This paper studies whether, and how, parents respond to changing neighborhood quality through parental involvement. Empirical measurement of this response is complicated by neighborhood selection: through their residential location choices, parents have some control over neighborhood quality. To deal with neighborhood selection, I make use of the mass closures of public housing projects in Chic...

While sustainability has been under heated debate in the past 20 years, practical issues such as housing sustainability have been overlooked. This research introduces a two-tier analytical framework based on the environmental, economic and social dimensions of housing sustainability. This provides a market-oriented understanding on the issue of housing sustainability. The findings suggest that ...

Sir.?The aims of your paper in regard to the public health, as set out in your New Year's issue, are excellent. And as everyone seems to be waking up at last to the fact that the housing question overshadows every other question in domestic politics, perhaps something will be accomplished. Questions of housing and health must not, however, be allowed to become the playthings of politics. Every ...

Since 1978, China has embarked on the ambitious transition from a planned economy toward a market economy, which has resulted in profound changes in every aspect of the society, including the provision and consumption of housing. With privatization in the housing system and the emergence of a housing market, the rate of homeownership in urban China has sky-rocketed from around 20% in the 1980s ...

This thesis investigates management change in housing associations in London since the Housing Act of 1988. Previous work on housing management has tended to focus on the adoption of new public management principles, assuming that policy from 1988 has resulted in a cultural shift towards individualism. This study makes use of ‘grid-group’ cultural theory to challenge this assumption by tracking...