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Housing markets were at the centre of the recent global financial
turmoil. In this study, a multidisciplinary group of leading
housing analysts from the USA, Europe, Asia and Australasia explore
the impact of the crisis within and between countries.
As the economy and society of China has become more diversified, so
have its urban neighborhoods. The last decade has witnessed a surge
in collective action by homeowners in China against the
infringement of their rights. Research on neighborhood governance
is sparse and limited, so this book fills a vital gap in the
literature and understanding.The authors reveal how the Chinese
authorities have themselves become increasingly sensitive to the
potential risk of collective actions becoming destabilizing forces
in urban arenas. This thought-provoking book looks at both the
theoretical and empirical underpinning of the self-governance of
homeowners and their collective action, as well as control
mechanisms in neighborhood governance. The book offers a window
through which contending issues, such as changing state-society
relations, rights-based social movements and the emergence of civil
society, can be further explored. Neighborhood governance is a
multifaceted concept that cuts across academic disciplines and
intersects an array of policy areas. Therefore this book will find
a wide audience amongst public and social policy academics,
particularly those with an interest in urban studies, governance
and Asian cities, as well as politics. Contributors: W. Breitung,
H. Chai, J. Chen, L. Chen, Y. Chen, Y. Gui, S. Guo, R. Huang, Y.
Jiang, W. Ma, B.L. Read, X. Sun, J. Tang, J. Wang, Y.Wu, N.-M. Yip
Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the
economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in
search of permanent housing. Featuring international case studies
from Asia, Europe, and Australia, Young People and Housing is a
collection of groundbreaking work from leading scholars in housing
policy. Younger generations across a wide range of societies face
increasing difficulties in gaining access to housing. Housing
occupies a pivotal position in the transition from parental
dependence to adult independence. Delayed independence has
significant implications for marriage and family formation,
fertility, inter and intra generational tensions, social mobility
and social inequalities. The social and cultural dimensions are, of
course, enormously varied with strong contrasts between Asian and
Western societies in terms of intergenerational norms and practices
in relation to housing. Nevertheless, younger households in China
(including Hong Kong), Japan, the USA, Australasia and Europe face
very similar challenges in the housing sphere. Moreover, concerns
about the housing future for younger generations are gaining
greater policy and popular prominence in many countries.
Housing markets were at the centre of the recent global financial
turmoil. In this study, a multidisciplinary group of leading
housing analysts from the USA, Europe, Asia and Australasia explore
the impact of the crisis within and between countries.
Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the
economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in
search of permanent housing. Featuring international case studies
from Asia, Europe, and Australia, Young People and Housing is a
collection of groundbreaking work from leading scholars in housing
policy. Younger generations across a wide range of societies face
increasing difficulties in gaining access to housing. Housing
occupies a pivotal position in the transition from parental
dependence to adult independence. Delayed independence has
significant implications for marriage and family formation,
fertility, inter and intra generational tensions, social mobility
and social inequalities. The social and cultural dimensions are, of
course, enormously varied with strong contrasts between Asian and
Western societies in terms of intergenerational norms and practices
in relation to housing. Nevertheless, younger households in China
(including Hong Kong), Japan, the USA, Australasia and Europe face
very similar challenges in the housing sphere. Moreover, concerns
about the housing future for younger generations are gaining
greater policy and popular prominence in many countries.
This book examines the active role of urban citizens in
constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance
towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to
encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and
other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of
narratives presented here brings together research from ten
different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the
perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis,
contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces
to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The
chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily
practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not
one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and
for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the
centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current
conditions and desires for a better life.
This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism
beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of
political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well
as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering
a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in
both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this
unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or
localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about
radical structural transformation of the urban system and also
addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive
to call themselves "movement". It addresses localized issues cut
off from international movements such as collective consumption
issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against
displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that
the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with
the specificity of their local social and political environment is
as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or
international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers
cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science,
public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies,
this text provides an interdisciplinary and international
perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and
south.
This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism
beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of
political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well
as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering
a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in
both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this
unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or
localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about
radical structural transformation of the urban system and also
addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive
to call themselves "movement". It addresses localized issues cut
off from international movements such as collective consumption
issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against
displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that
the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with
the specificity of their local social and political environment is
as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or
international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers
cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science,
public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies,
this text provides an interdisciplinary and international
perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and
south.
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