Using historical case studies on Germany and the USA, the book identifies three institutional domains on the supply-side of the housing market - urban land, housing finance and construction - that set countries on different housing trajectories and subsequently established differences that were hard to reverse in later periods.
Using historical case studies on Germany and the USA, the book identifies three institutional domains on the supply-side of the housing market - urban land, housing finance and construction - that set countries on different housing trajectories and subsequently established differences that were hard to reverse in later periods.
Sebastian Kohl is a researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Acknowledgments List of figures and tables Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The historical origins and persistency of suburbanized versus compact cities 1.1 How Germany became a country of multi-unit buildings 1.2 How the US became urbanized in single-family-house cities Chapter 2: Historical differences in housing finance 2.1 Germany: mortgage bank regime with non-profit associations 2.2 United States: Deposit-banking regime Chapter 3: Fordist mass production and the Handwerk tradition of single-family houses 3.1 The German Handwerk production of single-family houses 3.2 Mass-produced single-family houses in the United States Chapter 4: The broader picture of OECD countries: generalization of findings, horizontal ownership and homeownership ideology 4.1 Exploring the generalizability: from two cases to OECD countries 4.2 Differences in the legal tradition of horizontal ownership 4.3 The origins and country-differences of the homeownership idea Conclusion Appendix References
Acknowledgments List of figures and tables Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The historical origins and persistency of suburbanized versus compact cities 1.1 How Germany became a country of multi-unit buildings 1.2 How the US became urbanized in single-family-house cities Chapter 2: Historical differences in housing finance 2.1 Germany: mortgage bank regime with non-profit associations 2.2 United States: Deposit-banking regime Chapter 3: Fordist mass production and the Handwerk tradition of single-family houses 3.1 The German Handwerk production of single-family houses 3.2 Mass-produced single-family houses in the United States Chapter 4: The broader picture of OECD countries: generalization of findings, horizontal ownership and homeownership ideology 4.1 Exploring the generalizability: from two cases to OECD countries 4.2 Differences in the legal tradition of horizontal ownership 4.3 The origins and country-differences of the homeownership idea Conclusion Appendix References
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