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The financialisation of housing production: exploring capital flows and value extraction among major housebuilders in the UK
This paper examines trends in the operation and financial performance of major UK housebuilders shortly before, during and after the global financial...
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The Changing Fortunes of the Architectural Profession in Postwar Britain: Complexity, Technological Change, and the (Re)construction of Knowledge
Professions are one means of organizing the delivery of goods and services. In this paper, the authors consider how the power and control of...
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Always the Same Old Stories? The Representation of Prehistoric Women and Men in Scientific Communication, Popular Culture and the Media
During the past 30 years, archaeological gender studies have been changing the androcentric image of prehistory, creating awareness for the diversity...
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From Relational to Regressive Place-Making: Develo** an ANT Theory of Place with Housebuilding
Sage and Vitry’s chapter engage with actor-network theory (ANT) and housing development to contribute to theories of place, especially those...
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Tiny Homes, Co-housing, and Community Land Trusts
Housing represents an important part of the built environment. The creation of a sustainable and attainable housing system requires innovative...
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Summary, conclusion and future prospects
Chapter Six sums up the previous discussions, considering how awareness of complexity and plurality of thought may affect responses to the changing...
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Rational Use of Urban Land for Sustainable Urban Growth: A Case Study of Metropolization in France
TheUrban worldwideMetropolisation sanitary crisis of early 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemicCOVID-19 Pandemic has greatly affected our confidence...
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Return Migration of Romanian Transnational Families: Care and Remittance Concerns
Romanian migration to Southern European countries like Italy or Spain emerged during the 1990s, led mainly by young couples aspiring to find jobs...
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Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic
The housing affordability crisis is one of the most pressing issues in urban centres around the globe, affecting especially young adults. Some...
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Social Substitutability and the Emergence of War and Segmental, Multilevel Society
Raymond Kelly’s widely cited Warless Societies and the Origin of War (University of Michigan Press, 2000) seeks to explain the origins of two central...
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Parry response to Dialectical Anthropology forum on Classes of Labour
The paragraphs that follow respond to some of the criticisms and comments that the contributors to this forum have made on my book. Many of these...
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Time and Temporality in Biographical Life Course Research
This chapter discusses the topics of time and temporality in biographical research. The Chapter addresses the centrality of Mead’s writings. His...
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Brownies’ Stories: Storytelling, Legend and Locality as Markers of Group Membership
This chapter will bring the idea of socialising the ‘good child’, which drives the text, into sharp focus, pulling together issues discussed in the...
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Method for capturing demands for housing customisation: balancing value for customers and operations costs
Mass customisation is a business strategy for house building companies to improve value generation and obtain a competitive advantage by offering the...
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Housing Space in England at the Neighbourhood-Level, 1971 to 2017
While most discussions of housing in the UK tend to focus on national or regional scales, the level of diversity within regions means that measuring...
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Political Economy: Crisis and Response
In this chapter the influence of Marxist thinking on planning studies is addressed with an emphasis on the structural dimensions of capital...
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Mountains and Megastructures: Neo-Geologic Landscapes of Human Endeavour
At a time when more people are living in cities that are growing ever higher, and when the scale of buildings can resemble vast geologic, landscape...
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Tiny Homes, Co-housing, and Community Land Trusts
Housing represents an important part of the built environment. The creation of a sustainable and attainable housing system requires innovative...
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My Heart Is To …: Some Cruxes in Identity Formation in Iron I Israel?
Israelite identity is accessed through proxies, abstract as well as physical, but its socialization, activation and propagation were conceptual and...
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Problematising the Politics of Recognition and Its Impact on Conviviality: Fixing Ambiguity, Losing Heterogeneity
This chapter explores the impact of politics of recognition on conviviality by focusing on two non-recognised groups: The Alevis and the Kurds, in...