Housing Policy Systems in South and East Asia

✍ Scribed by Razali Agus, John Doling, Dong-Sung Lee

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides an up-to-date account of housing policy systems in eight countries - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore. With one chapter devoted to each country, there are, in addition, introductory and concluding chapters, in which the editors identify both the similarities in the problems faced, and in the approaches adopted, by the governments of the Asian countries - setting them apart from the West - as well as the differences that indicate the variety of Asian solutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 12
Foreword......Page 13
1 Asian Housing Policy: Similarities and Differences......Page 18
2 Japan......Page 37
3 Singapore......Page 55
4 Hong Kong......Page 77
5 Taiwan......Page 101
6 Korea......Page 121
7 Malaysia......Page 144
8 Thailand......Page 163
9 Indonesia......Page 178
10 The South and East Asian Housing Policy Model......Page 195
Index......Page 206