European Metropolitan Housing Markets [Hardcover]

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of housing theory and policy with a focus on metropolitan regions. The results are based on case studies of twelve European metropolitan regions, including expert panels organized in each. Using an approach from the field of industrial economics, the analysis is divided into the three related stages, structure , conduct and performance.

European Housing Markets  An Overview.- An Analysis of the Housing Market in Greater Brussels.- Metropolitan Housing Markets  The Case of Helsinki.- Housing Markets and Policies in the Munich Metropolitan Area.- Recovery and Change: Glasgows Housing 19912001.- The Housing Market in Zurichs Urban Agglomeration.- The Amsterdam Metropolitan Housing Market: How a Prosperous Metropolitan Area Co-exists with a Central City Dominated by Social Rental Housing for the Poor.- The Oslo Metropolitan Housing Market.- The Milan Housing Market.- Housing in Vienna.- Housing Market and Housing Policy in Hamburg. Evidence and Prospects.- Housing Market and Housing Policy in Copenhagen.- The Stockholm Housing Market.From the reviews:European metropolitan housing markets is a collection of essays describing the operation of housing markets and housing policies in a dozen major cities in Europe  from Glasgow to Milan and from Brussels to Vienna. & The book does contain a number of interesting analytical descriptions & and most of them contain suggestions for those who would like more historical or statistical detail. & For the most part the book makes for interesting reading, and it makes a fine reference book. (John M. Quigley, Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 87 (4), November, 2008)

A comprehensive analysis of housing theory and policy with a focus on metropolitan regions

Results are based on case studies of twelve European metropolitan regions, including expert panels organized in each

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