Alan Murie
Biographic Data
| ID | 244672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Murie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Murie |
| SIGNATURE | MURIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 821 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Remembering Ray Forrest
It will come as a shock to many to learn that Ray Forrest has died suddenly at the age of 68. In this short piece, Alex Marsh, Alan Murie and Peter Williams offer up a reflection on his life and wo
Moving with the times: Changing Frameworks for Housing Research and Policy
Shrinking the state in housing: Challenges, transitions and ambiguities
Public sector housing has had different shares of the market and different roles in advanced economies, but its general decline matches perspectives on shrinking the state. This article, referring to England, confirms public sector decline but also shows a prolonged, incomplete and locally contingent process that has not simply involved a shift from state to market. The retreat of government from direct provision of housing has involved different…
Residualisation and resilience: Public housing in Hong Kong
Public housing has been an important element in the welfare state and a substantial literature has analysed its origins and growth in different places. However, as it has matured and been redefined by privatisation and regeneration, debates have changed and increasingly been concerned with residualisation and decline. This paper outlines considerations affecting comparative analysis of public housing and presents new material related to explanati…
A Presumption in Favour of Home Ownership? Reconsidering Housing Tenure Strategies
This paper discusses changes in housing finance, tenure and policy in the UK in the context of Kemeny's important and influential discussion of political tenure strategies. The evolution of housing tenure in that country since the 1970s has not conformed to the thesis of a simple presumption in favour of home ownership and the paper argues that the framework for housing analysis must look beyond tenure categories, recognise the complex variations…
Selling the Welfare State: The Privatisation of Public Housing
Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain. It outlines the historical background to the growth of public housing and the developing political debatea surrounding its disposal. The main emphasis in the book, however, is on the ways in which privatisation in housing links to other key changes in British society. The long trend for British social hou…
Social Policy Review 24: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2012
This edition of Social Policy Review marks the 40th anniversary of a publication from the UK Social Policy Association devoted to presenting an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It includes a special Anniversary Preface celebrating the publication's evolution and distinctive contributions. Continuing its reputation as a cutting edge, international publication in social policy, Part One of this edition analyse…
The Next Blueprint for Housing Policy in England
This review outlines the changes to housing policy in England introduced or proposed by the UK coalition government elected in 2010. These changes form part of a longer term project to modernise housing policy, and are at the same time a response to an economic and public expenditure crisis. It is argued that these emerging proposals raise important questions for housing policy analysis and research—questions about the interpretation of earlier p…
The Maturation of the Neo-liberal Housing Market in Urban China
Neo-liberalism has dominated policy formulation and implementation for three decades and been influential in reshaping urban housing provision in different countries. However, the nature and impact of neo-liberal housing policy developments are also affected by previous arrangements, the exact nature, timing and pace of policy change and by how governments and markets have responded to emerging global and local challenges. This paper examines neo…
The New Affordable and Social Housing Provision System in China: Implications for Comparative Housing Studies
The dramatic changes in urban housing provision in China after 1980 have been widely described and assessed. This paper updates earlier accounts of policy change in China and reflects upon the significance of these changes for theoretical and conceptual frameworks used in comparative housing studies. Housing privatisation and commercialisation transformed the Chinese socialist housing system into a dynamic housing market but new housing problems …
Pathways Toward European Creative-Knowledge City-Regions
Across Europe there is a lively policy and academic debate on what the essential conditions are for the development of new economic activities in city-regions. The focus is on knowledge-intensive and creative industries. Different theories (glocalization, clustering, embeddedness, path dependence, "hard" and "soft" location factors) identify the essential factors. In this article, we review debates and theories on these conditions and specificall…
Toward a `New' Strategic Leadership of Place for the Knowledge-based Economy
This paper addresses the changing leadership task associated with a new agenda about the leadership of place. The shifting development context for cities and regions — including the emergence of the creative city and the knowledge-based region — places a renewed emphasis on the importance of interdisciplinary processes that stimulate the creation and the exploitation of knowledge. Consequently there is a requirement for an approach to the leaders…
The Modernisation of Housing in England
This paper considers changes in the housing market and housing policy following the major deregulation and privatisation of housing in England in the 1980s and 1990s. It highlights developments that were not anticipated, the continuing importance of social rented housing and the renewed interest of government in housing and refers to these in the context of previous accounts of the modernisation of housing tenure. The paper also considers emergin…
The New Divided City: Changing Patterns in European Cities
Over the last 20 years there has been a vigorous discussion of evidence related to new and more intense social and spatial divisions within European cities. These contributions have identified social and spatial polarisation associated with globalisation, deindustrialisation and the increasing income inequalities arising from these. However, various ‘moderating’ factors were identified to explain why different outcomes were emerging in European c…
The impact of factory closure on local communities and economies: The case of the MG Rover Longbridge closure in Birmingham
Much of the recent literature concerned with the impacts of factory closure refers to closures occurring in the 1980s and 1990s and affecting heavy industry – coal, steel and shipbuilding. It also tends to focus on employment and labour market impacts assessed through the subsequent experience of workers made redundant following closures. It also tends to assume that these impacts are localized. Because of this much of the discussion of policy im…
The Right to Buy: Analysis & Evaluation of a Housing Policy
Social Capital and Neighbourhoods that Work
The concept of social capital has received increasing attention in recent years from both academics and the policy community. It has come to be widely used in debates about housing and neighbourhoods and figures strongly in discussions of social cohesion, community development and neighbourhood renewal. This paper provides an original discussion of some of the key issues related to these debates. It argues that, although it is widely used, the co…
The performance of social landlords in Great Britain: What do we know and what does it show
This paper examines the evidence concerning the performance of landlords within and between the two social housing sectors in Great Britain. It considers both the measured performance of landlords in the two sectors and the factors that appear to influence that performance. In doing so it discusses some of the broad issues involved in performance measurement in social housing before reviewing some of the previous work in the field that throws lig…
Social Exclusion and Opportunity Structures in European Cities and Neighbourhoods
The increased research and policy interest in social exclusion has included a focus on the concentration of disadvantage within cities. The role of neighbourhoods in the dynamics of social exclusion is consequently receiving greater attention. This paper reports the results of a major European research programme designed to explore the neighbourhood dimension of social exclusion. The results raise important issues related to the differential oppo…
Social and Spatial Implications of Housing Reform in China
Research into eastern European housing reform indicates that privatization has been accompanied by processes of social and physical exclusion and segregation. Has the Chinese housing reform been accompanied by similar problems? This paper addresses this question by examining the early evidence on the social and spatial consequences of housing reform. It begins with a discussion of the particular social and spatial patterns of Chinese cities devel…
Housing Policy and Practice
Guide to Reading the Book - Introduction: Analysing Housing Policy - The Origins of Housing Policy - Housing and the State 1914-39 - The Changing Emphasis of Housing Policy 1945-79 - New Policies and Emerging Issues: Housing since 1979 - The Policy Context - The Administrative Framework - The Financial Framework - The Policy Process - Local Policy Making - From Policy to Practice: The Management of Housing - Evaluating Housing Policies - Conclusi…
Housing Policy and Practice in China
An authoritative addition to comparative housing research, adding to knowledge of housing policy in practice in China. It demonstrates how Chinese housing provision and policy differs in important way
Spatial and Social Divisions within British Cities: Beyond Residualisation
The literature on changing residential patterns in cities attributes different degrees of importance to economic restructuring and to changes in housing. In Britain, where a significant share of housing provision is not provided through the market, the references to socio-tenurial polarisation and the residualisation of council housing have emphasised the importance of housing tenure. The nature of housing restructuring has affected both the pace…
Commercial Housing Development in Urban China
Housing privatisation has been one of key features of reform during the 1980s and the 1990s in many countries. Chinese housing reform has attracted attention because of its distinctive features and there have been a number of commentaries on the general progress of urban housing reform policies. However, there has been no systematic study of the development of commercial housing in Chinese cities. The aim of this paper is to provide an up-to-date…
The social rented sector, housing and the welfare state in the UK
Recent discussions of the social rented sector in the UK have placed considerable emphasis on the restructuring and declining size of the tenure, privatisation, a shift from object to subject subsidies, residualisation and the increased significance of the poverty trap for tenants. Against this background, and in the light of the view that major public sector investment is unlikely in the future, the policy debate has shifted further towards conc…
Social and Spatial Implications of Housing Reform in China
Research into eastern European housing reform indicates that privatization has been accompanied by processes of social and physical exclusion and segregation. Has the Chinese housing reform been accompanied by similar problems? This paper addresses this question by examining the early evidence on the social and spatial consequences of housing reform. It begins with a discussion of the particular social and spatial patterns of Chinese cities devel…
The Process of Commercialisation of Urban Housing in China
The role of the state in housing has been the subject of controversial debate recently in China. More and more decision-makers consider that the supply of housing should be left to market forces of demand and supply. Various new policies have been introduced from as early as 1979, designed to commercialise and reform the public-sector-dominated housing system. This paper provides a review of housing reforms and a systematic account of the key fea…
Residualization and Council Housing: Aspects of the Changing Social Relations of Housing Tenure
It is commonly argued that council housing in Britain is becoming a residual service. This paper explores the various dimensions of residualization such as the size of the council house sector, the quality of the service, the characteristics of tenants and the nature of the stock. Whilst changes in these areas are significant it is suggested that we must look beyond housing processes to fully understand the downgrading of council housing. Specifi…
Commercial Housing Development in Urban China
Housing privatisation has been one of key features of reform during the 1980s and the 1990s in many countries. Chinese housing reform has attracted attention because of its distinctive features and there have been a number of commentaries on the general progress of urban housing reform policies. However, there has been no systematic study of the development of commercial housing in Chinese cities. The aim of this paper is to provide an up-to-date…
Wealth, Inheritance and Housing Policy
The links between housing and the accumulation of wealth have received little attention in recent years. The predominant concerns of housing policy and housing research have been questions of access, mobility and use. This paper argues that British housing has reached a critical stage in its development where new issues are emerging, particularly in relation to property inheritance and the differential accumulation of wealth. Current trends indic…
Social Exclusion and Opportunity Structures in European Cities and Neighbourhoods
The increased research and policy interest in social exclusion has included a focus on the concentration of disadvantage within cities. The role of neighbourhoods in the dynamics of social exclusion is consequently receiving greater attention. This paper reports the results of a major European research programme designed to explore the neighbourhood dimension of social exclusion. The results raise important issues related to the differential oppo…
The New Divided City: Changing Patterns in European Cities
Over the last 20 years there has been a vigorous discussion of evidence related to new and more intense social and spatial divisions within European cities. These contributions have identified social and spatial polarisation associated with globalisation, deindustrialisation and the increasing income inequalities arising from these. However, various ‘moderating’ factors were identified to explain why different outcomes were emerging in European c…
Home ownership in recession
Since 1989, the home ownership sector in Britain has experienced a number of changes which would have been dismissed in advance as unlikely. Falling levels of transactions, falling house prices and falling new construction have been accompanied by rising mortgage arrears, rising repossessions and the emergence of home owners with negative equity. The impact of these changes on the wider economy has also contributed to a reassessment of home owner…
Marginalization and subsidized individualism: The sale of council houses in the restructuring of the British welfare state
In Britain, debates around council house sales have shifted considerably since it became a significant aspect of housing tenure change in the late 1960s. From what was seen as an isolated ideological battle in the sphere of housing consumption, or a simple political response to the perceived demand for home ownership among sections of the working class, the sale of public sector dwellings now sits within a much more generalized debate and a much …
Differential Accumulation: Wealth, Inheritance and Housing Policy Reconsidered
As home ownership in the UK has grown and matured, aspects of wealth and inheritance have become an important dimension of housing debates. In political and policy discussion it has been claimed that a higher level of home ownership will produce a more democratic pattern of wealth holdings and will have significant intergenerational effects as regards wealth transfers. In sociological and social policy debates, wealth in the form of owner occupie…
Social Segregation, Housing Tenure and Social Change in Dutch Cities in the Late 1980s
Contemporary debates about social polarisation and divided cities emphasise common influences on social and economic change in cities. The development of a global economy and of global influences on both market systems and on public policy regimes encourages an expectation that there is a convergence in processes and policies affecting cities and a convergence in outcomes—in terms of increasingly similar patterns of polarisation and division. Thi…
The Maturation of the Neo-liberal Housing Market in Urban China
Neo-liberalism has dominated policy formulation and implementation for three decades and been influential in reshaping urban housing provision in different countries. However, the nature and impact of neo-liberal housing policy developments are also affected by previous arrangements, the exact nature, timing and pace of policy change and by how governments and markets have responded to emerging global and local challenges. This paper examines neo…
The Geography of Council House Sales in England — 1979-85
Analyses of the social, economic and spatial consequences of council house sales have tended to rely on local case study evidence or limited official statistics at the national level. This paper seeks to provide more systematic evidence for England as a whole. Sales which were completed between 1979 and 1985 are mapped by local authority to indicate the uneven geography of the privatisation of council housing in England. Statistical analyses of k…
The social rented sector, housing and the welfare state in the UK
Recent discussions of the social rented sector in the UK have placed considerable emphasis on the restructuring and declining size of the tenure, privatisation, a shift from object to subject subsidies, residualisation and the increased significance of the poverty trap for tenants. Against this background, and in the light of the view that major public sector investment is unlikely in the future, the policy debate has shifted further towards conc…
Social Capital and Neighbourhoods that Work
The concept of social capital has received increasing attention in recent years from both academics and the policy community. It has come to be widely used in debates about housing and neighbourhoods and figures strongly in discussions of social cohesion, community development and neighbourhood renewal. This paper provides an original discussion of some of the key issues related to these debates. It argues that, although it is widely used, the co…
From Privatization to Commodification: Tenure Conversion and New Zones of Transition in the City
Linking Housing Changes to Crime
Housing figures prominently in debates about crime in Britain. It has become commonplace to comment on the increasing associations between crime and council housing. This paper explores some of the issues which link housing and crime. It argues that it is important to recognize how the social base and geography of housing have changed and to understand processes which lead to an increasing concentration in council housing of those with least choi…
Toward a `New' Strategic Leadership of Place for the Knowledge-based Economy
This paper addresses the changing leadership task associated with a new agenda about the leadership of place. The shifting development context for cities and regions — including the emergence of the creative city and the knowledge-based region — places a renewed emphasis on the importance of interdisciplinary processes that stimulate the creation and the exploitation of knowledge. Consequently there is a requirement for an approach to the leaders…
Housing Policy and Practice
Guide to Reading the Book - Introduction: Analysing Housing Policy - The Origins of Housing Policy - Housing and the State 1914-39 - The Changing Emphasis of Housing Policy 1945-79 - New Policies and Emerging Issues: Housing since 1979 - The Policy Context - The Administrative Framework - The Financial Framework - The Policy Process - Local Policy Making - From Policy to Practice: The Management of Housing - Evaluating Housing Policies - Conclusi…
Pathways Toward European Creative-Knowledge City-Regions
Across Europe there is a lively policy and academic debate on what the essential conditions are for the development of new economic activities in city-regions. The focus is on knowledge-intensive and creative industries. Different theories (glocalization, clustering, embeddedness, path dependence, "hard" and "soft" location factors) identify the essential factors. In this article, we review debates and theories on these conditions and specificall…
Spatial and Social Divisions within British Cities: Beyond Residualisation
The literature on changing residential patterns in cities attributes different degrees of importance to economic restructuring and to changes in housing. In Britain, where a significant share of housing provision is not provided through the market, the references to socio-tenurial polarisation and the residualisation of council housing have emphasised the importance of housing tenure. The nature of housing restructuring has affected both the pace…
Divisions of Homeownership: Housing Tenure and Social Change
This paper is concerned with the way in which housing tenure categories are used in analysis of social change in Britain. The tendency to represent tenures as unchanging, homogeneous categories with exclusive attributes is discussed. It is argued that it is important to assess the ways in which dominant housing tenures have been changing and to highlight differentiation within tenures. This discussion is mainly pursued in relation to debates abou…
The Affluent Home Owner: Labour Market Position and the Shaping of Housing Histories
This article draws on research designed to explore aspects of social stratification within owner occupation. The research reconstructed and compared the housing, employment and family histories of two groups of home owners in two contrasting localities in Bristol. This article focuses on the top end of the owner occupied market, a neglected area in the sociology of housing, and explores the connections between bargaining power in the labour marke…
The Position of Former Council Homes in the Housing Market
The Right to Buy for council tenants has now been in operation for 14 years. In that time around 1.5m public-sector dwellings in England have transferred to the owner-occupied sector. Most discussion of this process has focused on the impact on the public sector. This paper examines the contribution of council house sales to the recent growth of home ownership and price relationships between former council homes and other dwellings in the market.…
Social Differentiation in Urban Areas: Housing or Occupational Class at Work
Housing Policy Between the Wars: Northern Ireland, England and Wales
Developments in Housing Policy and Administration in Northern Ireland since 1945
Variations in the standards of housing provision in Northern Ireland
Hillyard P. A. R., Roche D. J. D., Murie A. S. and Birrell W. D. (1972) Variations in the standards of housing provision in Northern Ireland, Reg. Studies 6, 393–399. Housing has been identified in a number of studies as an important factor in the Northern Ireland problem. Little analysis exists, however, of the nature and extent of differences in housing provision throughout the Province. This paper describes one possible method of measuring pro…
Planning in Northern Ireland: A Survey
Family Income Supplement and Low Incomes in Northern Ireland
Ideology, Conflict and Social Policy
Social policy in Northern Ireland offers examples of social policies strongly influenced by ideological considerations. There are a number of factors which determine how susceptible services and policies are to ideological influences. Some services are particularly sensitive to ideological values and demands, for example, education. In certain areas the distribution of services and the allocation of resources has been significant in maintaining t…
Wealth, Inheritance and Housing Policy
The links between housing and the accumulation of wealth have received little attention in recent years. The predominant concerns of housing policy and housing research have been questions of access, mobility and use. This paper argues that British housing has reached a critical stage in its development where new issues are emerging, particularly in relation to property inheritance and the differential accumulation of wealth. Current trends indic…
Residualization and Council Housing: Aspects of the Changing Social Relations of Housing Tenure
It is commonly argued that council housing in Britain is becoming a residual service. This paper explores the various dimensions of residualization such as the size of the council house sector, the quality of the service, the characteristics of tenants and the nature of the stock. Whilst changes in these areas are significant it is suggested that we must look beyond housing processes to fully understand the downgrading of council housing. Specifi…
Housing and Class in Britain: The Debate Continues
Social Differentiation in Urban Areas: Housing or Occupational Class at Work
Marginalization and subsidized individualism: The sale of council houses in the restructuring of the British welfare state
In Britain, debates around council house sales have shifted considerably since it became a significant aspect of housing tenure change in the late 1960s. From what was seen as an isolated ideological battle in the sphere of housing consumption, or a simple political response to the perceived demand for home ownership among sections of the working class, the sale of public sector dwellings now sits within a much more generalized debate and a much …
The Geography of Council House Sales in England — 1979-85
Analyses of the social, economic and spatial consequences of council house sales have tended to rely on local case study evidence or limited official statistics at the national level. This paper seeks to provide more systematic evidence for England as a whole. Sales which were completed between 1979 and 1985 are mapped by local authority to indicate the uneven geography of the privatisation of council housing in England. Statistical analyses of k…
The Affluent Home Owner: Labour Market Position and the Shaping of Housing Histories
This article draws on research designed to explore aspects of social stratification within owner occupation. The research reconstructed and compared the housing, employment and family histories of two groups of home owners in two contrasting localities in Bristol. This article focuses on the top end of the owner occupied market, a neglected area in the sociology of housing, and explores the connections between bargaining power in the labour marke…
The social division of housing subsidies
Differential Accumulation: Wealth, Inheritance and Housing Policy Reconsidered
As home ownership in the UK has grown and matured, aspects of wealth and inheritance have become an important dimension of housing debates. In political and policy discussion it has been claimed that a higher level of home ownership will produce a more democratic pattern of wealth holdings and will have significant intergenerational effects as regards wealth transfers. In sociological and social policy debates, wealth in the form of owner occupie…
A Dissatisfied State? Consumer Preferences and Council Housing in Britain
Within debates about the sociology of consumption and more general critiques of state provision there are strong assumptions concerning majority preferences in housing. This paper reviews available survey evidence on housing tenure preferences and presents some original data concerning the attitudes towards home ownership and state housing among households who purchased their council dwellings between 1968 and 1973. In doing so the paper demonstr…
Divisions of Homeownership: Housing Tenure and Social Change
This paper is concerned with the way in which housing tenure categories are used in analysis of social change in Britain. The tendency to represent tenures as unchanging, homogeneous categories with exclusive attributes is discussed. It is argued that it is important to assess the ways in which dominant housing tenures have been changing and to highlight differentiation within tenures. This discussion is mainly pursued in relation to debates abou…
Transformation Through Tenure? The Early Purchasers of Council Houses 1968-1973
The sale of council dwellings under the right to buy has been a prominent feature of the privatisation policies of the Thatcher governments. The impact of such changes in the ownership and control of dwellings remains a subject of considerable debate. Whilst there is now substantial evidence on the short term effects of council house sales, the longer term impacts on dwellings and households have largely been a matter for speculation. This paper …
Change on a rural council estate: An analysis of dwelling histories
A global strategy for housing in the third millenium
Home ownership in recession
Since 1989, the home ownership sector in Britain has experienced a number of changes which would have been dismissed in advance as unlikely. Falling levels of transactions, falling house prices and falling new construction have been accompanied by rising mortgage arrears, rising repossessions and the emergence of home owners with negative equity. The impact of these changes on the wider economy has also contributed to a reassessment of home owner…
The Dynamics of the Owner-occupied Housing Market in Southern England in the Late 1980s: A Study of New Building and Vacancy Chains
This paper examines the direct and indirect effects of new residential construction on patterns of housing opportunity and mobility. Drawing on the empirical evidence from a major study of housing turnover, the paper explores the particular features of the housing market in Southern England. The research was carried out in 1988 and 1989 at the end of a period of rapid house price inflation. The paper offers an assessment of the findings in the co…
Les promesses d'une démocratie de propriétaires. Le cas du Royaume-Uni
Las dos terceras partes de las familias britânicas se han convertido en propietarias de su vivienda. La democracia de los propietarios ha hecho del novel propietario popular un ciudadano pacifico. Pero, con la crisis, las desigualdades de condicion vuelven a aparecer entre los propietarios
Hostels to high rise: State housing in Europe since 1850
From Privatization to Commodification: Tenure Conversion and New Zones of Transition in the City
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