<DIV>Housing and home ownership has been strongly embedded in East Asian socioeconomic and policy models. Based on the primacy of national economic growth objectives, it was promoted as a means of, on the one hand, contributing directly to economic growth through the motor of the construction indust
Housing East Asia: Socioeconomic and Demographic Challenges
β Scribed by John Doling, Richard Ronald (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 277
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
The Changing Shape of the East Asian Housing Model....Pages 9-43
Urban Housing Policy Changes and Challenges in China....Pages 44-70
Housing, Crises and Interventions in Hong Kong....Pages 71-90
Indonesian Housing Development Amidst Socioeconomic Transformation....Pages 91-115
Housing and the Rise and Fall of Japanβs Social Mainstream....Pages 116-139
Towards a Housing Policy in Malaysia....Pages 140-161
Integrating Economic and Social Policy through the Singapore Housing System....Pages 162-179
Housing and Socioeconomic Transformations in South Korea....Pages 180-203
The Pro-market Housing System and Demographic Change in Taiwan....Pages 204-226
Housing as a Social Welfare Issue in Thailand....Pages 227-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-260
β¦ Subjects
Social Policy; Asian Culture; Sociology, general; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Asian Politics; Urban Studies/Sociology
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