James Barlow
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 160626 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Barlow |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Barlow |
| FIRMA | BARLOW J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4984-0126 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 184 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Nature-centric housing
The UK Government plans to enable construction of 1.5 million homes in the next five years in one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, enabled by a Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Ministers assert this will be a ‘win-win’ for housing and nature, but major wildlife organisations reject this claim based on the prospect of weaker nature protections. To test if better ‘win-wins’ were available, we held a workshop in June 2025 with ac…
Benefits and Challenges of Video Consulting for Mental Health Diagnosis and Follow-Up
Mental health services continue to experience rising demand that exceeds capacity. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this crisis, with access to services being reduced. Although video consultations (VCs) are a solution, usage in UK community mental healthcare settings remains limited. This study aims to investigate psychiatrists' and general practitioners' (GPs) perceptions of the benefits and challenges of VC for the diagnosis and follow-up of g…
Patient and public involvement
Leadership for Knowledge Translation
Calls for successful knowledge translation (KT) in health care have multiplied over recent years. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) program is a policy initiative in the United Kingdom aimed at speeding-up the translation of research into health care practice. Using multiple qualitative research methods and drawing on the ongoing processes used by individual…
Property Bureaucracy and Culture
Managers’ Identification with and Adoption of Telehealthcare
This paper presents managerial attempts at implementing telehealthcare. Our longitudinal, ethnographic case studies document both successful and failed implementations across five health and social care organisations in England. We draw on theories of organisational identity, sensemaking and sensegiving to highlight how managerial organisational identities can inhibit the uptake of digital health technologies. Managers who strongly identified wit…
Understanding Hybrid Roles
Increasing attention has been paid in both public administration and organizational theory to understanding how physicians assume a ‘hybrid’ role as they take on managerial responsibilities. Limited theoretical attention has been devoted to the processes involved in negotiating, developing, and maintaining such a role. We draw on identity theory, using a qualitative, five‐year longitudinal case study, to explore how hybrid physician–managers in t…
The role of the organizational champion in achieving health system change
Flexible Homes, Flexible Care, Inflexible Organisations? The Role of Telecare in Supporting Independence
‘Telecare’ involves the use of information and communications technologies to provide support for vulnerable individuals living in the community. The UK government wishes to make telecare available in all homes that need it by 2010. This expansion is seen as central to the improvement of older people's independence and quality of life by enabling them to live at home whenever possible. The paper discusses the range of initiatives now in place to …
Building Mass Customised Housing through Innovation in the Production System
In the paper we address the way Japanese housebuilders have developed innovative approaches to supplying highly customised housing. We draw on notions of path dependency to explore the evolution of Japan's large-scale industrialised housing suppliers, the way they have differentiated themselves from local suppliers, and their possible future evolution. We first outline how structural conditions influence the business strategies adopted by housebu…
Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe
The growing literature on comparative European housing policy has played a major part in developing our understanding of the way housing in provided in different countries, and in the way the interaction between the stat, market and civil society is conceptualized. However, much of this analysis is rooted without question in the welfare states of northern Europe - there has been almost no research published in English on the provision of housing …
Will technological innovation create the true lifetime home
This paper discusses the relationship between different forms of design and technological innovation and their ability to support older people in their own homes. It considers (1) innovation in the design and construction of new housing, notably ‘lifetime homes’ and ‘open building’ systems; (2) the introduction of electronically enhanced assistive technology; and (3) telecare. Each of these is examined in terms of its potential benefits for meeti…
Achieving 'Customer Focus' in Private Housebuilding
Driven by government ambitions to improve the quality and cost of new housing, British private sector housebuilders are searching for ways to become more 'customer focused'. However, concepts developed in other manufacturing and service sectors are being transferred into the housebuilding industry without fully understanding their implications. The paper explores the concept of 'customer focus', the ways it is being adopted in UK housebuilding an…
From Craft Production to Mass Customisation. Innovation Requirements for the UK Housebuilding Industry
Improving the efficiency of housebuilding is essential if the challenge of meeting future UK housing needs is to be met. The degree to which speculative housebuilders are prepared to adopt construction product and process innovations is central to this task. Historically, housebuilders have been notoriously slow to innovate. However, current housing market and regulatory trends suggest firms will have to reassess their strategies to ensure future…
Introduction-Improving British Housing Supply
Environmental Performance as a Competitive Strategy? British Speculative House Builders in the 1990s
The paper examines the potential for improved environmental performance by British housebuilders in light of stricter thermal regulation of new homes. The impact on housebuilders of incorporating energy rating into Building Regulations is considered, together with an assessment of role of ‘energy efficiency’ as a potential business and marketing strategy
Flexible Planning and Flexible Buildings
London entered the 1990s with the combination of an unprecedented oversupply of office space and severe shortages of affordable housing. As part of its approach to increase the supply of affordable housing, central government suggested that local authorities encourage converting empty office buildings into housing. This also was seen as a way to reduce commuting and thereby to meet targets of environmental “sustainability”. However, the research …
Housing Provision in Developed Economies
(1995). HOUSING PROVISION IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES. Urban Geography: Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 459-466
The Politics of Urban Growth
Delivering affordable housing
Reforming the housing system in Eastern Europe
Property, Bureaucracy and Culture
Controlling the Housing Land Market
One major problem for the production of low-cost housing in the UK is the continued lack of control over the market for housing land, yet there is very little debate about ways of controlling land prices. This paper assesses some alternative approaches to land-use planning by focusing on high growth sub-regions in Britain, France and Sweden. It examines the flexibility of these planning systems to changes in the demand for housing land and the re…
Land and property development in a changing context
Self‐promoted housing and capitalist suppliers
Self‐promoted housing ‐ in which individual households both initiate and consume the dwelling ‐accounts for around 40 per cent of French annual house building, more than the output of speculative developers. While the sector encompasses a range of different options, including self‐building, it is dominated by capitalist firms taking profits from both land development and the construction process. This picture thus counteracts the received wisdom …
The use and abuse of housing tenure
This paper examines the concept of housing ‘tenure’ and its use in housing research. We argue that this concept is in fact misused. This occurs in two ways. First, it is frequently assumed that taxonomic collectives of tenure like ‘owner‐occupation’ necessarily correspond with significant concrete categories such as housing quality or social status. Second, abstract categories like ‘housing class’ or ‘consumption cleavages’ are identified with sp…
The role of the organizational champion in achieving health system change
Understanding Hybrid Roles
Increasing attention has been paid in both public administration and organizational theory to understanding how physicians assume a ‘hybrid’ role as they take on managerial responsibilities. Limited theoretical attention has been devoted to the processes involved in negotiating, developing, and maintaining such a role. We draw on identity theory, using a qualitative, five‐year longitudinal case study, to explore how hybrid physician–managers in t…
The State, the Market, and Competitive Strategy
The objective in this paper is to compare the competitive strategies of the housebuilding industry in the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden. It is focused on the relationship between the different mechanisms by which the housing market is regulated and the competitive methods adopted by firms in each country. By using a detailed study of over 100 firms in the three countries, it is argued that there is a relationship between the forms of market …
Controlling the Housing Land Market
One major problem for the production of low-cost housing in the UK is the continued lack of control over the market for housing land, yet there is very little debate about ways of controlling land prices. This paper assesses some alternative approaches to land-use planning by focusing on high growth sub-regions in Britain, France and Sweden. It examines the flexibility of these planning systems to changes in the demand for housing land and the re…
Achieving 'Customer Focus' in Private Housebuilding
Driven by government ambitions to improve the quality and cost of new housing, British private sector housebuilders are searching for ways to become more 'customer focused'. However, concepts developed in other manufacturing and service sectors are being transferred into the housebuilding industry without fully understanding their implications. The paper explores the concept of 'customer focus', the ways it is being adopted in UK housebuilding an…
From Craft Production to Mass Customisation. Innovation Requirements for the UK Housebuilding Industry
Improving the efficiency of housebuilding is essential if the challenge of meeting future UK housing needs is to be met. The degree to which speculative housebuilders are prepared to adopt construction product and process innovations is central to this task. Historically, housebuilders have been notoriously slow to innovate. However, current housing market and regulatory trends suggest firms will have to reassess their strategies to ensure future…
Self‐promoted housing and capitalist suppliers
Self‐promoted housing ‐ in which individual households both initiate and consume the dwelling ‐accounts for around 40 per cent of French annual house building, more than the output of speculative developers. While the sector encompasses a range of different options, including self‐building, it is dominated by capitalist firms taking profits from both land development and the construction process. This picture thus counteracts the received wisdom …
Landowners, property ownership and the rural locality
The Politics of Urban Growth
Housing market constraints on labour mobility
The Politics of Land into the 1990s
Since the early 1980s there has been a mounting debate over the future direction of the land use planning system. The government is also determined to tackle the extensive subsidies to the farming industry. This paper argues that the interaction of agricultural policy and land use policy is central to the way in which the planning system is likely to evolve over the next decade. The configuration of land politics will be shaped by these trends. T…
The politics of growth
Have the economic and political strategies of Thatcherism created two nations? By examining changes in the structure of employment in Berkshire and relating them to recent developments in the patterns of housing provision Barlow and Savage argue that even within the prosperous counties of the South East social divisions are widening. They conclude with a reminder to the left-there are social needs to be met in the traditional Tory strongholds suc…
Will technological innovation create the true lifetime home
This paper discusses the relationship between different forms of design and technological innovation and their ability to support older people in their own homes. It considers (1) innovation in the design and construction of new housing, notably ‘lifetime homes’ and ‘open building’ systems; (2) the introduction of electronically enhanced assistive technology; and (3) telecare. Each of these is examined in terms of its potential benefits for meeti…
Introduction-Improving British Housing Supply
Building Mass Customised Housing through Innovation in the Production System
In the paper we address the way Japanese housebuilders have developed innovative approaches to supplying highly customised housing. We draw on notions of path dependency to explore the evolution of Japan's large-scale industrialised housing suppliers, the way they have differentiated themselves from local suppliers, and their possible future evolution. We first outline how structural conditions influence the business strategies adopted by housebu…
A note on biotechnology and the food production chain. Some social and spatial implications of changing production technology
The housing crisis and its local dimensions
One result of the current combination of widespread speculative housing promotion, reduced state provision and volatile regional and sub‐regional employment variations seems to be a growing polarisation between the ability of the housing system to cope with housing needs and demands at a local level. The paper examines the links between housing provision and economic restructuring in three contrasting British sub‐regions and argues that there are…
Flexible Homes, Flexible Care, Inflexible Organisations? The Role of Telecare in Supporting Independence
‘Telecare’ involves the use of information and communications technologies to provide support for vulnerable individuals living in the community. The UK government wishes to make telecare available in all homes that need it by 2010. This expansion is seen as central to the improvement of older people's independence and quality of life by enabling them to live at home whenever possible. The paper discusses the range of initiatives now in place to …
Reforming the housing system in Eastern Europe
Housing Provision in Developed Economies
(1995). HOUSING PROVISION IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES. Urban Geography: Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 459-466
Property, Bureaucracy and Culture
Landowners, property ownership and the rural locality
The politics of growth
Have the economic and political strategies of Thatcherism created two nations? By examining changes in the structure of employment in Berkshire and relating them to recent developments in the patterns of housing provision Barlow and Savage argue that even within the prosperous counties of the South East social divisions are widening. They conclude with a reminder to the left-there are social needs to be met in the traditional Tory strongholds suc…
The housing crisis and its local dimensions
One result of the current combination of widespread speculative housing promotion, reduced state provision and volatile regional and sub‐regional employment variations seems to be a growing polarisation between the ability of the housing system to cope with housing needs and demands at a local level. The paper examines the links between housing provision and economic restructuring in three contrasting British sub‐regions and argues that there are…
The use and abuse of housing tenure
This paper examines the concept of housing ‘tenure’ and its use in housing research. We argue that this concept is in fact misused. This occurs in two ways. First, it is frequently assumed that taxonomic collectives of tenure like ‘owner‐occupation’ necessarily correspond with significant concrete categories such as housing quality or social status. Second, abstract categories like ‘housing class’ or ‘consumption cleavages’ are identified with sp…
A note on biotechnology and the food production chain. Some social and spatial implications of changing production technology
The Politics of Land into the 1990s
Since the early 1980s there has been a mounting debate over the future direction of the land use planning system. The government is also determined to tackle the extensive subsidies to the farming industry. This paper argues that the interaction of agricultural policy and land use policy is central to the way in which the planning system is likely to evolve over the next decade. The configuration of land politics will be shaped by these trends. T…
Owner‐occupier housing supply and the planning framework in ‘boom regions’
Housing market constraints on labour mobility
Land and property development in a changing context
Self‐promoted housing and capitalist suppliers
Self‐promoted housing ‐ in which individual households both initiate and consume the dwelling ‐accounts for around 40 per cent of French annual house building, more than the output of speculative developers. While the sector encompasses a range of different options, including self‐building, it is dominated by capitalist firms taking profits from both land development and the construction process. This picture thus counteracts the received wisdom …
The State, the Market, and Competitive Strategy
The objective in this paper is to compare the competitive strategies of the housebuilding industry in the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden. It is focused on the relationship between the different mechanisms by which the housing market is regulated and the competitive methods adopted by firms in each country. By using a detailed study of over 100 firms in the three countries, it is argued that there is a relationship between the forms of market …
Reforming the housing system in Eastern Europe
Property, Bureaucracy and Culture
Controlling the Housing Land Market
One major problem for the production of low-cost housing in the UK is the continued lack of control over the market for housing land, yet there is very little debate about ways of controlling land prices. This paper assesses some alternative approaches to land-use planning by focusing on high growth sub-regions in Britain, France and Sweden. It examines the flexibility of these planning systems to changes in the demand for housing land and the re…
Delivering affordable housing
Flexible Planning and Flexible Buildings
London entered the 1990s with the combination of an unprecedented oversupply of office space and severe shortages of affordable housing. As part of its approach to increase the supply of affordable housing, central government suggested that local authorities encourage converting empty office buildings into housing. This also was seen as a way to reduce commuting and thereby to meet targets of environmental “sustainability”. However, the research …
Housing Provision in Developed Economies
(1995). HOUSING PROVISION IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES. Urban Geography: Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 459-466
The Politics of Urban Growth
Environmental Performance as a Competitive Strategy? British Speculative House Builders in the 1990s
The paper examines the potential for improved environmental performance by British housebuilders in light of stricter thermal regulation of new homes. The impact on housebuilders of incorporating energy rating into Building Regulations is considered, together with an assessment of role of ‘energy efficiency’ as a potential business and marketing strategy
From Craft Production to Mass Customisation. Innovation Requirements for the UK Housebuilding Industry
Improving the efficiency of housebuilding is essential if the challenge of meeting future UK housing needs is to be met. The degree to which speculative housebuilders are prepared to adopt construction product and process innovations is central to this task. Historically, housebuilders have been notoriously slow to innovate. However, current housing market and regulatory trends suggest firms will have to reassess their strategies to ensure future…
Introduction-Improving British Housing Supply
Achieving 'Customer Focus' in Private Housebuilding
Driven by government ambitions to improve the quality and cost of new housing, British private sector housebuilders are searching for ways to become more 'customer focused'. However, concepts developed in other manufacturing and service sectors are being transferred into the housebuilding industry without fully understanding their implications. The paper explores the concept of 'customer focus', the ways it is being adopted in UK housebuilding an…
Housing and Welfare in Southern Europe
The growing literature on comparative European housing policy has played a major part in developing our understanding of the way housing in provided in different countries, and in the way the interaction between the stat, market and civil society is conceptualized. However, much of this analysis is rooted without question in the welfare states of northern Europe - there has been almost no research published in English on the provision of housing …
Will technological innovation create the true lifetime home
This paper discusses the relationship between different forms of design and technological innovation and their ability to support older people in their own homes. It considers (1) innovation in the design and construction of new housing, notably ‘lifetime homes’ and ‘open building’ systems; (2) the introduction of electronically enhanced assistive technology; and (3) telecare. Each of these is examined in terms of its potential benefits for meeti…
Flexible Homes, Flexible Care, Inflexible Organisations? The Role of Telecare in Supporting Independence
‘Telecare’ involves the use of information and communications technologies to provide support for vulnerable individuals living in the community. The UK government wishes to make telecare available in all homes that need it by 2010. This expansion is seen as central to the improvement of older people's independence and quality of life by enabling them to live at home whenever possible. The paper discusses the range of initiatives now in place to …
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