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The specifics of history and geography indicate a vast array of urban housing types and patterns within equally divergent sets of urban circumstance. The problem is to bring all this particularity and variety into a frame of reference that will help us understand the social, economic, cultural and political significance of urban housing.
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Harvey, D. (2018). Urban Housing. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1833
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