Book Review

Purpose – The general aim of this research is to investigate residents' perception of the quality of public housing and factors influencing this in Ogun State Southwest Nigeria. This is in view of a paucity of published works on this subject matter and the need to upgrade the quality of public...

Purpose – The public activity of controlling land use is exerted through the planning process. The purpose of this paper is to examine how housing developers perceive different aspects of the planning process, and if these perceptions might act as a constraint for the development of new...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze factors that determine the demand for single family houses in Alabama urbanized areas, commonly referred to as metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). Design/methodology/approach – This paper builds and estimates a housing demand model that...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the transformation of inner‐city sites previously developed for industry use in Chinese city, which is driven by the unique social, economic and political settings in China featured by the emergence of the market mechanism for urban land...

Purpose – Over the last few years there have been several articles published in public health and urban planning journals that point to a possible link between neighborhood design and the level of obesity in such neighborhoods. The main contention is that neighborhoods that are conducive to...

Purpose – Various empirical studies have demonstrated that house prices in different geographic regions have a tendency to co‐move. But these studies have focused on developed economies in the west. The purpose of this paper is to test this hypothesis in the case of three major urban areas...

Purpose – In light of growing concerns on the scale of the housing affordability problem in Italy, and of the government's response in the form of a new Housing Plan, the purpose of this paper is to ask whether such new policy is a coherent and adequate strategy to address the alleged housing...

Purpose – Access to housing remains high on the agenda of the governments in the developing countries. One of the responses to low income housing access is by making the housing finance conduits reachable to the poor. But is this objective really achieved? The purpose of the research paper is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse the methods of housing finance adopted by the low income and informal groups in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 300 households in selected areas (low‐income/informal) of Jos Metropolis, Nigeria, was carried...