Urban Social Housing: Global Health and Climate Change Mitigation and Redress - Paperback

by Patrick Wakely (Author)

This book stimulates and contributes to the search for strategic approaches to the production, maintenance and management of urban low-income group housing and the historical, geographic, cultural/political and economic contexts within which it is set. It includes case studies from Northern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Author Biography

Patrick Wakely is an independent Policy Adviser and Professor Emeritus of Urban Development in London University and former Director of the Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL). An architect (AA Dipl, London), he has 40 years of experience of research, consultancy and teaching in housing, planning and urban development, on which he has worked in more than 20 countries.