Comparative essay on housing in the UK and the Netherlands

Essays should concentrate on ONE of the following topics:
o sustainable development, or
o the cultural context for public housing.
The essays are to be clearly focused around a topic that can be phrased as a question.
I want you to concentrate on sustainable developmen
Useful, .Material
Most importantly DESIGN QUALITY IN NEW HOUSING
Learning from the Netherlands. (Matthew Cousins).

Unsettling cities: movement/settlement – Allen, John, Massey, Doreen B., Pryke, Michael 1999
read the chapter by Hannerz, U “Amsterdam: windows on the world”

Understanding Amsterdam: essays on economic vitality, city life and urban form – Deben, Léon, Heinemeyer, W. F., Vaart, D. van der 2000

Impact: Amsterdamse stedebouw na 1986 = Urban planning in Amsterdam after 1986 – Buurman, Marlies, Kloos, Maarten 2005

A city in progress: physical planning in Amsterdam – Alexander, Harold, Pistor, Rob, Amsterdam (Netherlands) [1994]

The embarrassment of riches: an interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age – Schama, Simon 1997, c1987
Read Part One: Becoming

Housing and social fragmentation in the netherlands – Ronald Van Kempen, Veronique A.J.M. Schutjens, Jan Van Weesep 07/2000

From waiting lists to adverts: The allocation of social rental dwellings in the Netherlands – Jeanet Kullberg 07/1997

From public housing to the social market: rental policy strategies in comparative perspective – Kemeny, Jim 1995

Management of social rented housing in Western Europe – Peter Boelhouwer, Harry van der Heijden, Birgitta van de Ven 10/1997

Schools of comparative housing research: from convergence to divergence – Jim Kemeny, Stuart Lowe 03/1998

materials from textbooks, journal articles, web sites and other sources of information as necessary.