Institutions providing access to housing in all tenures have become further entrenched and exposed to financial risk. Literature on housing policy trends and financial risk
Improving water quality with rural land use policy: (re)balancing farmland regulation, intensification and financial viability
Policymakers in New Zealand are attempting to achieve improved environmental outcomes by implementing an output-based approach to non-point-source
Is Building Heritage in Enterprise Zones The Latest Threat or Opportunity?
In considering heritage for buildings within Enterprise Zones, the central premise has been focusing on economic growth, with less thought given to the wider structural and cultural
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Returning to Rousseau – Is there a Contract Between Citizen and State?
New forms of governance, conditional approaches to public service access, and initiatives to engage citizens in taking on new responsibilities
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Lessons need to be learned from Enterprise Zones and Empowerment Zones
There is a need to learn lessons when using spatially targeted fiscal experiments if intervention is to generate wider developmental benefit. For Enterprise Zone concept
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Influential books #94 In defense of housing by Peter Marcuse and David Madden
Arguing the case for housing as needing radical political and economic attention
Influential books #88 Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Important text from the 20th century that unpicks earlier pure logic work, to identify the complexity of language that form the basis of most philosophical
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Influential books #79 An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham
From the father of utilitarianism this text sets the new legal thinking on societal motivations and intentions
Influential books #77 An Essay concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
Set over four books, this leading text of the enlightenment covers nurture, experience/reflection, language, and the limits of knowledge.
Influential books #75 The order of things by Michel Foucault
Postmodern thinking on taxonomies, in that structures are set within the parameters of their own historical epistemological norms such as scientific discourse. Subtitled the ‘Archaeology
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Influential books #73 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
Famous for macroeconomic thinking on the positives of fiscal intervention as counter-cyclical to peaks and troughs in growth.
Influential books #72 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
In erring towards science over faith, this book places an importance on realising the human limits of understanding in physical and mental reasoning.
Influential books #68 The social contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Beyond the idea of the monarchy making legislative decisions, the social contract progresses to argue an allocation of power by the people.
Influential books #65 Constructions of neoliberal reason by Jamie Peck
Compelling historical critique of the neoliberal project of free(er) markets that has dominated contemporary thinking and practice.
Influential books #54 Housing policy and economic power by Michael Ball
A political economy look at owner-occupation at the turn of the 21st century