Housing category: 85 books
by Giannino Cascardo
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Il volume affronta con taglio operativo la disciplina fiscale, contabile e civilistica delle cooperative edilizie, e costituisce un valido supporto per i professionisti e per coloro che operano nel settore.
La struttura dell’opera segue l’ordine consequenziale della vita di una cooperativa;...
by Richard R. W. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, to codify and perpetuate intolerance.
by Adrienne Schmitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Packed with photos and site plans, this practical how-to-guide for developing resorts-such as hotels, timeshares, and second-home, retirement, and planned communities-provides an inside look at the challenges faced and lessons learned by actual practitioners in the industry.
Regulating Information Asymmetry in the Residential Real Estate Market
The Hong Kong Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book conducts a detailed examination of the current form of the Hong Kong residential property regulatory system: the 2013 Residential Properties (Firsthand Sales) Ordinance (Cap 621). The author sheds light on how the new legislation promotes a number of values including information symmetry,...
Keepers of the Castle
Real Estate Executives on Leadership and Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Examining what has always been America's largest industry, this helpful handbook analyzes the recent transformation of real estate investment and identifies the leadership attributes necessary for executives and board chairs as they guide their businesses through profound change.
The Emergence of Pacific Urban Villages
Urbanization Trends in the Pacific Islands
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed “urban villages” as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities. It investigates the meaning and conceptualization of myriad forms of urban villages by examining the evolution...
by Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it—by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This report identifies lessons learned from implementation of a community-driven urban development initiative in Indonesia, the Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project (NUSSP), and the extent to which it contributed to improvements in service delivery and governance in six beneficiary communities....
Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking
The Transformation of American Attitudes and Cigarette Use, 1890–2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Smoking tracks Americans’ changing attitudes about cigarette smoking over the last century. With data from more than five thousand public and privately conducted polls, this book carefully examines how Americans came to understand the health risks of smoking; how...
The Essential Guide To Flatsharing, 2nd Edition
For sharers, lodgers and everyone renting out a room
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Whether you're looking for a flatshare or renting out a room The Essential Guide to Flatsharing has everything you need to know.
If you're: * Renting out a spare room. * All about taking in a lodger; drawing contracts; the tax and financial issues; necessary preparation; advertising your room;...
Urban Commons
Rethinking the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity – their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed – on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of the commons has received surprisingly little...
Protest, Property and the Commons
Performances of Law and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Protest, Property and the Commons focuses on the alternative property narratives of ‘social centres’, or political squats, and how the spaces and their communities create their own – resistant – form of law. Drawing on critical legal theory, legal pluralism, legal geography, poststructuralism...
Historia de la propiedad: la expropiación
VII Encuentro Interdisciplinar, Salamanca, 15-17 de septiembre de 2010
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Buena parte de los autores se ven obligados a citar como referente el artículo 17 de la Declaración de los Derechos del Hombre y del Ciudadano de 1789 que consagra el derecho sagrado e inviolable de la propiedad, salvo «causa de necesidad pública legalmente constatada». Pero sería caer en una...
by Victor Moore, Michael Purdue
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Despite repeated attempts in recent years to simplify the planning system, planning law has continued to be so complex that practitioners and students alike have found it difficult to disentangle the issues and principles involved. The twelfth edition of this popular and accessible book aims to remove...