Books written by Paul N. Balchin

  • Urban Land Economics and Public Policy
    Urban Land Economics and Public Policy

    The Commission secondly had powers to assess and collect a 40 per cent levy on net development value, the government believing that there was still enough of the development value left to provide an adequate incentive for owners to sell ...

  • Housing Policy: An Introduction
    Housing Policy: An Introduction

    Now in its fourth edition, the highly successful Housing Policy has been thoroughly updated to include the latest legislation, together with an analysis of the effects of the recession on housing policy.

  • Regional Policy in Britain: The North South Divide
    Regional Policy in Britain: The North South Divide

    Dunn, R., Forrest, R. and Murie, A. (1987) The geography of council house sales in England, Urban Studies, Vol. 24, pp. ... Fothergill, S. (1988) Geography of jobs in Mrs Thatcher's Britain, paper presented at the RTPI Summer School, ...

  • Urban Development in Renaissance Italy
    Urban Development in Renaissance Italy

    Providing a comprehensive account of one of the most formative historical periods, this book uniquely describes Renaissance architecture as the physical manifestation of economic, social and political change. Shifts in...

  • Paris: The Shaping of the French Capital A Political Perspective
    Paris: The Shaping of the French Capital A Political Perspective

    RENAISSANCE. PARIS. INTRODUCTION With a population that had shrunk from around 250,000 on the eve of the Black Death to 100,000 at the beginning of the sixteenth century, Paris was no longer the largest city in Europe.

  • Housing Policy in Europe
    Housing Policy in Europe

    Based on the White Paper, Our Future Homes (Department of the Environment, 1995b), the Housing Act 1996 extended the right to buy to housing-association tenants; replaced the housing association grant (HAG) with a social housing grant ...

  • Housing Improvement and Social Inequality: Case Study of an Inner City
    Housing Improvement and Social Inequality: Case Study of an Inner City

    Originally published in 1979, this book discusses housing improvement, and particularly its effects upon the residential population of the inner areas of West London.

  • Housing: The Essential Foundations
    Housing: The Essential Foundations

    ... Multiple Occupation . Guidance on Standards of Fitness Under Section 352 of the Housing Act 1985 , London : HMSO ... Occupation : Establishing Effective Local Authority Strategies , London : DoE . ( 1997 ) Circular 3/97 : Houses in ...