Economic Analysis Of Neighbourhood Quality Neighbourhood Reputation And The Housing Market

Author : M. Koopman
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781614990338

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Economic Analysis of Neighbourhood Quality, Neighbourhood Reputation and the Housing Market by M. Koopman Pdf

Residents know exactly what their neighbourhood is like. House-hunters, on the other hand, must find out for themselves about the intangible social quality of a neighbourhood. As a simple rule of thumb, neighbourhood reputation can offer them an assessment of neighbourhood quality. In this research, regression analyses are applied to test whether neighbourhood reputations are being used as a proxy measure for neighbourhood quality in residential mobility choices and establishing the price of homes. The empirical results go beyond answering this research question. What price, for instance, do residents place on liveability? Why does urban restructuring so often fail to change the social make-up of an area, despite a marked increase in owner-occupation? Why does gentrification appear to emerge spontaneously, while deliberate attempts to gentrify an area often fail? How does a neighbourhood acquire that ‘golden edge’? This book also provides the answers to the above policy-oriented questions.

Author : David S. Segal
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483220208

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The Economics of Neighborhood by David S. Segal Pdf

The Economics of Neighborhood integrates neighborhood into contemporary notions of the urban economy. Neighborhood is viewed as a good with demand, supply, and equilibrium aspects. Topics covered range from demand for neighborhood and interneighborhood mobility to neighborhood choice and transportation services. The role of governments as suppliers of neighborhoods is also considered. Comprised of 12 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to some of the efforts to measure neighborhood effects and the approaches used in analyzing the role of neighborhood in the urban economy. The next section deals with the determinants of neighborhood demand in different eastern and midwestern cities in the United States in the mid- to late 1960s. The location choice of a sample of Pittsburgh households is examined, along with the role that neighborhood transition at the origin played in governing the decision to move or stay put. Subsequent chapters focus on the neighborhood choice of households already living in Washington, D.C., in 1968 as a joint prior choice of residential location, housing type, automobile ownership, and mode of travel to work; how the supply of certain kinds of neighborhoods can be determined by the interaction of residential demand and housing supply in the private sector; and optimum neighborhood supply by local governments. The concluding section analyzes neighborhood in an equilibrium setting, with emphasis on price outcomes and the quantity aspects of neighborhood. This monograph will be of value to economists as well as to researchers and students interested in urban economics.

Author : E. Mlecnik,IOS Press
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781614992363

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Innovation Development for Highly Energy-Efficient Housing by E. Mlecnik,IOS Press Pdf

In previous years we have seen a recognition of the significant potential that exists for reducing energy use through innovation in residential buildings. This study investigates innovation challenges and identifies opportunities that could lead to a rapid increase in the adoption of highly energy-efficient housing concepts, particularly that of the passive house. To this end, it exemplifies, interprets and develops the innovation adoption theory through an investigation of views and experiences on the supply side, the demand side and the policy side. It highlights successful innovation trajectories and barriers experienced by businesses. It addresses both problems and positive experiences from the perspective of the end user and investigates different policy approaches. As such, the research reveals important features of innovation-adoption strategies in the building sector. It shows how multi-player enterprise collaboration plays a key role, and the study also recommends the development of quality assurance schemes. It makes a valuable contribution to discussions about how active the role of government policymakers and enterprise networks should be.

Author : P. van Asperen
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781614994442

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Evaluation of Innovative Land Tools in Sub-Saharan Africa by P. van Asperen Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to formalize land tenure. It is envisaged that tenure security for land holders will increase and in turn contribute to poverty reduction. This study evaluates such tools in three peri-urban areas in Lusaka (Zambia), Oshakati (Namibia) and Gaborone (Botswana), with a focus on the perspective of the land holders. The author concludes that the tools are to some extent pro-poor, and makes recommendations for further improvements. These innovative land tools are also considered a necessary addition to conventional and administration tools. This study makes valuable reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners within the land administration domain and related disciplines.

Author : Susan J. Smith,Moira Munro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317968030

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The Microstructures of Housing Markets by Susan J. Smith,Moira Munro Pdf

House prices and mortgage debt have moved to centre stage in the management of national economies, regional development and neighbourhood change. Describing, analysing and understanding how housing markets work within and across these scales of economy and society has never been more urgent. But much more is known about the macro-scales than the microstructures; and about the economic rather than social drivers of housing market dynamics. This book redresses the balance. It shows that housing markets are social, cultural and psychological – as well as economic – affairs. This multidisciplinary approach is helpful in understanding the economic staples of supply, demand, price and information. It also casts new light on the emotional and political economy of markets.

Author : Richard F. Muth,Allen C. Goodman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415269741

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The Economics of Housing Markets by Richard F. Muth,Allen C. Goodman Pdf

A state of the art overview of theoretical and empirical aspects of housing market research.

Author : Scott Orford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351876131

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Valuing the Built Environment by Scott Orford Pdf

This book critically assesses the hedonic pricing technique as a method of imputing monetary values for the implicit attributes of housing. The hedonic technique is widely used, particularly in the US, but increasingly in Europe and Asia and has proved to yield important results and influence cost-benefit analysis. Scott Orford breaks new ground in this volume by exploring hedonic house price models within a geographical rather than purely economic context. He reevaluates the microeconomic theory of housing markets and concludes that only by treating housing market dynamics as inherently spatial can empirical results conform to the theory that underpins them. He also makes conclusions with respect to locational externalities, which have important implications as to how the built environment is valued.

Author : Maarten van Ham,David Manley,Nick Bailey,Ludi Simpson,Duncan Maclennan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400748538

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Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics by Maarten van Ham,David Manley,Nick Bailey,Ludi Simpson,Duncan Maclennan Pdf

This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer health and well-being often found in such places. There remains a widespread belief in neighbourhood effects: that living in a poorer area can adversely affect residents’ life chances. These chapters caution that neighbourhood effects cannot be fully understood without a profound understanding of the changes to, and selective mobility into and out of, these areas. Featuring fresh research findings from a number of countries and data sources, including from the UK, Australia, Sweden and the USA, this book offers fresh perspectives on neighbourhood choice and dynamics, as well as new material for social scientists, geographers and policy makers alike. It enriches neighbourhood effects research with insights from the closely related, but currently largely separate, literature on neighbourhood dynamics.

Author : Anthony O'Sullivan,Kenneth Gibb
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470680414

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Housing Economics and Public Policy by Anthony O'Sullivan,Kenneth Gibb Pdf

This book is a timely assessment of 20 years of progress in the field of housing economics and its application to policy and practice. Two decades on from the publication of Duncan Maclennan's influential Housing Economics, 16 leading housing experts - both academics and policy makers from across the world - now honour Maclennan's contributions. The chapters here present a contemporary survey of key issues in housing, from urban housing markets and sub-market modelling, to the economics of social housing, the basis for housing planning, economic analysis of neighbourhoods, and the connections between academic work and policy development. For students, researchers and practitioners in housing, urban economics and social policy, Housing Economics and Public Policy: . provides up to date and comprehensive reviews of major areas of the housing economics literature . sheds light on the economic, social and spatial processes that affect housing . includes discussion of major areas of cutting edge housing economics research and identifies continuing gaps . presents a synthesis of housing economics research on both sides of the Atlantic . assesses the impact of theory on policy and practice

Author : David Manley,Maarten van Ham,Nick Bailey,Ludi Simpson,Duncan Maclennan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400766952

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Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems? by David Manley,Maarten van Ham,Nick Bailey,Ludi Simpson,Duncan Maclennan Pdf

This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. Over the last few decades, Western governments have persistently pursued area based policies to fight such effects, despite a lack of evidence that they exist, or that these policies make a difference. The first part of this book presents case studies of perceived neighbourhood based problems in the domains of crime; health; educational outcomes; and employment. The second part of the book presents an international overview of the policies that different governments have implemented in response to these neighbourhood based problems, and discusses the theoretical and conceptual processes behind place based policy making. Case studies are drawn from a diverse range of countries including the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Australia, Canada, and the USA.

Author : James Mitchell,Real Estate Research Corporation. Public Affairs Counseling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : PURD:32754081249728

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The Dynamics of Neighborhood Change by James Mitchell,Real Estate Research Corporation. Public Affairs Counseling Pdf

This document has evolved over three years to meet the need for a more comprehensive understanding of how neighborhoods change. The Office of Policy Development and Research at HUD formulated policy alternatives to stem the rising tide of abandoned residential buildings. It showed abandonment as the last stage of a process, not a random or isolated phenomenon. The failure of programs to counteract and halt the decline of neighborhoods has stemmed mainly from an imperfect understanding of this process. There have also been political problems with acting in neighborhoods before the symptoms were painfully evident and from the tendency of program developers to deal with the house, rather than the people who own it, rent it, loan on it, or insure it. Few programs have recognized that those people were part of a total neighborhood rather than occupants of individual buildings. The process of neighborhood change is triggered and fueled by individual, collective and institutional decisions. These are made by a myriad of people-households, bankers, real estate brokers, investors, speculators, public service providers (police, fire, schools, sanitation, etc.) and others. It is a reasonable conclusion that if a concentrated effort is made to affect these decisions then neighborhood decline can be slowed, halted, or in some circumstances, reversed.

Author : George C. Galster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226829395

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Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves by George C. Galster Pdf

Drawing on economics, sociology, geography, and psychology, Galster delivers a clear-sighted explanation of what neighborhoods are, how they come to be—and what they should be. Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define them—how do you make neighborhoods productive and fair for their residents? In Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves, George C. Galster delves deep into the question of whether American neighborhoods are as efficient and equitable as they could be—socially, financially, and emotionally—and, if not, what we can do to change that. Galster aims to redefine the relationship between places and people, promoting specific policies that reduce inequalities in housing markets and beyond.

Author : Glen Bramley,Chris Leishman,Noah Kofi Karley,James Morgan,David Watkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1859355757

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Transforming Places by Glen Bramley,Chris Leishman,Noah Kofi Karley,James Morgan,David Watkins Pdf

The report describes and accounts for patterns of change in housing market performance, with a particular focus on the impact of new investment. While there is emphasis on house prices the study also reviews: measures of market outcomes involving social as well as private housing; what the main drivers are of local and neighbourhood housing market performance; the impact on neighbourhood housing markets of new investment.

Author : Thomas J. Kane,Douglas Staiger,Stephanie K. Reigg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Housing
ISBN : IND:30000095360081

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School Quality, Neighborhoods and Housing Prices by Thomas J. Kane,Douglas Staiger,Stephanie K. Reigg Pdf

We study the relationship between school characteristics and housing prices in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina between 1994 and 2001. During this period, the school district was operating under a court-imposed desegregation order and redrew a number of school boundaries. We use two different sources of variation to disentangle the effect of schools and other neighborhood characteristics: differences in housing prices along assignment zone boundaries and changes in housing prices following the change in school assignments. We find systematic differences in house prices along school boundaries, although the impact of schools is only one-quarter as large as the naive cross-sectional estimates would imply. Moreover, house prices seem to react to changes in school assignments. Part of the impact of school assignments is mediated by subsequent changes in the characteristics of the population living in the school zone.

Author : John F. McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001969305

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Economic Analysis of an Urban Housing Market by John F. McDonald Pdf