The second edition of Introduction to Housing is much more than an introduction: it is an extraordinarily wide-ranging review of many aspects of the study of housing, and its connection to related economic, political, and social trends. This breadth contributes to the book’s strengths and its weaknesses. It touches on a great number of subjects and thus can serve as an invaluable reference source. Because it covers so many topics, however, the topics and their relative emphasis sometimes seem inconsistent and confusing.

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书评：住房概论

《住房概论》第二版不只是引言：它是对住房研究及其与相关的经济，政治和社会趋势的联系的许多方面的广泛回顾。这种广度有助于本书的优缺点。它涉及许多主题，因此可以作为宝贵的参考资料。但是，因为它涵盖了这么多的主题，所以这些主题及其相对重点有时看上去不一致且令人困惑。