The use of the UK benchmark model to develop a standard global approach to construction data

The human population of the world has grown rapidly in the last fifty years. The impact of the population explosion has also had a dramatic effect on the built environment. Yet it is difficult to find a source of statistical information on a global scale that combines the data that is available. Unless there is a measure of construction activity...

Governance of relocation; an examination of residential relocation processes in the housing market renewal Pathfinder areas in England

This paper examines governance processes shaping outcomes of neighbourhood restructuring induced residential relocation (RR) in the Housing Market Renewal (HMR) areas in England. In 2002, the Housing Market Renewal proposed demolition of 100,000 properties to renew the failing housing markets of Northern England and the Midlands (Leather et al...