The Business of Densification : Governing Land for Social Sustainability in Housing /

Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe socio-political problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable res...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Debrunner, Gabriela (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:	1st ed. 2024.
Subjects:	Sociology, Urban. Urban policy. Human geography. Sustainability. Urban Sociology. Urban Policy. Human Geography. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Push towards urban densification evokes social exclusion in housing
Chapter 2. Part I: Theoretical approach: Actors-centered new institutionalist political ecology
Part II: Analytical framework: The Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) and its focus on property rights
Chapter 3. The Irr Applied To Housing: Governing Densification For Socially Sustainable Housing Development
Chapter 4. Study design and methodological approach: Densification and urban housing development in Switzerland
Chapter 5. Study design and methodology: learning from the Swiss scarce land use situation
Chapter 6. Discussion of key results
Chapter 7. Final conclusion: governance mechanisms for socially sustainable urban densification.