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Housing Economies of Scale: An Architectural Assessment of Three Historic Case Studies in London. KU Leuven
It is largely assumed that large-scale housing has been an outright failure. The typical images that we have of mass housing have been derived from canonical but polarising projects, the wet dreams of megalomaniacal architectural figures and demonising rhetoric. Since large-scale, coordinated housing solutions are politically incorrect, the types of actions celebrated today tend towards the small: self-help models which risk only serving to ...
The housing question under capitalist political economies KU Leuven
© 2014, © 2014 IBF, The Institute for Housing and Urban Research. Abstract: This short article is a reply to four commentaries that were written in response to our paper “Centering Housing in Political Economy”. Rather than discussing each of the commentaries separately, we have chosen to distil and discuss four themes that appear important both to the commentators and to us: theory and abstraction; land rent; mortgage securitization; and the ...
Explaining the spatial variation in housing prices: an economic geography approach KU Leuven
Housing prices vary geographically, even between neighbouring municipalities. Local differences can be attributed to differences in socio-economic variables and real estate characteristics. This article argues that one should additionally take into account the geographical location of municipalities. In particular, housing prices are affected by distance and travel-time to important economic centres offering jobs and extensive services. ...
Housing projects for low-income groups and modes of economic integration: a comparative study in Greater Cairo KU Leuven
The housing of low-income groups in Greater Cairo has always been difficult. However, the general shortage in housing supply is contrasting with the low occupancy rate of newly constructed public housing units. In contrast, despite their bad living conditions, informal settlements have a high occupancy rate. In order to analyse the reasons behind this contradiction, the paper compares four neighbourhoods ranging from formal and semi-informal to ...