The COVID-19 Crisis; Social Perspectives; First Edition Page 1 THE COVID-19 CRISIS Since
its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well …

This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK,
incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central …

Urban planning systems, processes and regulations are often blamed–by many mainstream
economists–for constraining the supply of housing by interfering with the efficient allocation …

ABSTRACT Permitted Development Rights are a regulatory mechanism in the English
planning system where the use of a building can be changed bypassing the standard …

For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen.
Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists–and stimulated …

Premature obsolescence of existing buildings is a significant challenge for sustainable
regeneration in cities internationally. Adaptive reuse is one approach to address …

ABSTRACT English planning system reforms can be understood as part of a broader
reorganisation of public services involving private sector providers supplying new markets …

In the middle of the twentieth century, the Western Harbour in Malmö, Sweden, was a port
and the world's largest shipyard. Now the area is a global exemplar of sustainable urbanism …

There are a number of studies on the extension of permitted development rights (PDr) for
office-to-residential conversions which predate this book. In this chapter, we consider what is …

Leftover spaces are constitutive elements of the city structure. The accurate selection of and
intervention in certain hotspots can lead to an urban development that slowly takes over …