Colin Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heriot-Watt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8283-3134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 124 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 304 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 122 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror
Changing shape of sustainable urban form with technological progress
Through history urban form has been dependent on transport and industrial technologies. Policy makers in Western economies have taken a view that a sustainable urban form is high density and compact. The basic hypothesis of the paper is that technological progress has undermined this argument, and enhanced the case for decentralised settlements. It considers this through the experience of the UK and the rise of online sales. The dramatic rise in …
Examining the nonlinear and spatial heterogeneity of housing prices in urban Beijing: An application of GeoShapley
The UK levelling up strategy and changing the spatial economy
The United Kingdom is one of the most spatially unequal Western countries. There have been continuing policy efforts to address this issue: the latest was a ‘levelling’ up strategy by the previous Conservative government. At the time of writing a new Labour government has dismissed the strategy as a slogan but the problem remains. The paper examines the detail of the Conservative’s levelling up policy and the theory underpinning it. It queries it…
Suzanne Levin , La République de Prieur de la Marne: Défendre les droits de l'homme en état de guerre, 1792 - an II
The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France
Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, military infirmaries, reformatories for prostitutes, holding places for the insane, and so on. It recovers much of the daily realities of the institutions…
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal Against Poverty in Developing Nations: Perspective from Urban Land Titling Potentials
The historian as water carrier
I usually say to my British doctoral students when they go into the viva voce examination on their thesis that they should try to enjoy the moment but also to relish it as it could be one of the only times in their careers when their work is read scrupulously, punctiliously and with great attention to detail by scholars in their field who are favourably disposed towards them. In the light of the present special issue, I will in future add, ‘thoug…
Lawsuit as Lobbying: Understanding Same Sex Marriage and Other Constitutional Litigation in Japan
This article uses same-sex marriage litigation currently before the courts in Japan as a vehicle for showing how a particular form of lawsuit-the claim for damages against the state for tortious legislative inaction-has become one of the leading tools for constitutional litigation in Japan
Philip Rieder, Le monde médical des Lumières. Louis Odier (1748-1817)
The physician Louis Odier is one of those figures whose prolific publication record and seemingly tireless life of promotion of his profession make him a recurrent figure glimpsed passingly within the medical world of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, both in his native Switzerland and also across western Europe more generally. His training was remarkable for its European scope and its grounding in the leading centres for clinical training …
Has the revival in the Scottish private rented sector since the millennium achieved maturity
The paper presents a framework for assessing maturity of the private rented sector (PRS) that is tested by reference to a study of Edinburgh set within a Scottish context. The mature market framework is developed by reference to investment theory and comparison with established PRSs in Europe. The PRS is accepted to a degree by users, the government, the wider community and investors. However, the PRS still lacks complete acceptance among tenants…
Commerce et révolution en France et en Grande-Bretagne au xviiie siècle
Depuis le milieu du dix-neuvième siècle, les discussions des historiens britanniques à propos des performances économiques de la France du dix-huitième siècle et de leurs liens avec les causes de la Révolution française étaient dominées par les débats associés sur la raison pour laquelle la Grande-Bretagne était devenue la « Première nation industrielle ». Ces débats tendaient à présenter l’économie français comme « en retard » en comparaison et …
The changing image of the UK private landlord with the buy to let revolution
There has been a long-standing negative image associated with private landlords. Private rented housing in the UK expanded dramatically after the millennium with the wide availability of buy-to-let mortgages. New types of people were attracted to private landlordism. It was arguably an opportunity to turn the page on historic negativity. However, these landlords were often seen as ‘get-rich-quick’ speculators. Our study combines historical analys…
Entrepreneurship and self-employment among Indigenous people
Despite being one of the least examined areas of minority entrepreneurship, as well as the vast unrepresentation of Indigenous populations in the Australian entrepreneurship landscape, contemporary Indigenous entrepreneurship is improving and its resurgence in development and substance can help highlight not only opportunities, but barriers to Indigenous entrepreneurs such as chronic lack of economic and human capital, cultural and social constra…
Mobility Constraints and Cycles in the Owner Occupied Housing Market
Very little empirical attention has been given to the mobility constraints linked to accessibility to and upgrading within home ownership. Both are central to the operation of the housing market and can be seen within a framework of housing careers. This paper places them also in the context of changing housing market conditions and in particular the role of housing cycles. The research simulates, in purely financial terms, the behaviour of the a…
Reframing the intra-urban retail hierarchy
Challenge of capturing socially generated land values: Principle versus practicality
This article provides a review of past attempts to harness the uplift in land values arising from granting planning permission to better understand the current difficulties of the use of land-value capture. The scheme has been the most successful approach to date, but the theoretical fundamentals are fudged and there are substantial policy variations between localities: a victory of practicality over principle. We argue that a tax on development …
Materia medica: Savoirs et usages de médicaments aux époques médiéviales et modernes ed. by Philip Rieder and François Zanetti
Reviewed by: Materia medica: Savoirs et usages de médicaments aux époques médiéviales et modernes ed. by Philip Rieder and François Zanetti Colin Jones Philip Rieder and François Zanetti, eds. Materia medica: Savoirs et usages de médicaments aux époques médiéviales et modernes. Geneva: Droz, 2018. 312 pp. $45.60 (978-2-600-05878-0). This excellent collection invites us to widen our angle of vision on the social history of medicine so as to includ…
Les Annales et Past & Present: Une Histoire Croisée
Les Annales et Past & Present : une histoire croiséeL'article propose une histoire croisée des Annales et du principal périodique d'histoire généraliste britannique, Past & Present. Fondé en 1952, ce dernier s'est inspiré de l'ouverture des Annales à des formes novatrices et interdisciplinaires d'écriture de l'histoire. Dans les années 1960 et 1970, âge d'or de l'histoire sociale, les deux revues ont joui d'une importance particulière. Alors que …
Does Residents’ Satisfaction with the Neighbourhood Environment Relate to Residents’ Self-Rated Health? Evidence from Beijing
Additional results quantify the differentiated effects on self-rated health between urban and suburban residents. The findings of this study suggest that the effects of residents' satisfaction with different types of green space on health benefits should be taken into account in the land-use design of green space preservation and development policies
The Military Revolution and the Professionalisation of the French Army Under the Ancien Régime
The growth in the size of armies was perhaps the most obvious aspect of Europe's Military Revolution. They also pointed logically towards the professionalisation of European armies. It focuses on the pioneering role of the emergent absolutist monarchy in France. Although the French army's later prestige was to be based upon centralised state control, it is important to recognize that, in the early stages, the fighting forces pitted against Spain …
Spatial economy and the geography of functional economic areas
The spatial economy can be visualised as a web of overlapping markets or functional areas linked to different activities. Unfortunately, very often administrative regions and local authority areas are used as proxies for functional areas, but they have serious shortcomings for spatial economic analysis and the implementation of local policies. The spatial economy is viewed here as a complex network of economic flows within a hierarchical urban sy…
Robespierre, the Duke of York, and Pisistratus During the French Revolutionary Terror
Maximilien Robespierre was deposed on 27 July 1794/9 Thermidor Year II when the charge that he was a tyrant burst spectacularly into open political discussion in France. This article examines key aspects of how that charge had developed, and been discussed in veiled terms, over the preceding months. First, it analyses a war of words which unfolded between Robespierre and the duke of York, the commander of the British forces on the northern front.…
Evaluation of work-based screening for early signs of alcohol-related liver disease in hazardous and harmful drinkers: The PrevAIL study
The workplace is an important setting for addressing alcohol harm, but there are barriers to voluntary screening that need to be addressed. Early detection and support of cases in the community could avert deaths and save health and social costs. Alcohol and obesity should be addressed simultaneously, because of their known multiplicative effect on liver disease risk, and because employers preferred a general health intervention to one that focus…
Thermidor: Cinderella among Revolutionary Journées
Following the overthrow of Robespierre in the journée of 9 Thermidor II (July 27, 1794), the Convention set about establishing an official version of the events of the day. The principal protagonists had been Robespierre’s fellow Montagnards and the Parisian sections, which responded positively to the Convention’s call for armed support against Robespierre and the Paris Commune during the night of 9–10 Thermidor. Yet by the time the moderate depu…
Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine, and the Body
This study sets out to examine the implications of Foucault's work for students and researchers in a wide selection of areas in the social and human sciences.
The Definition of Housing Market Areas and Strategic Planning
The purpose of this paper is to develop the concept of a housing market area, thereby provide insights into our understanding of the sub-regional structures of the housing system and hence propose a framework for strategic planning research in the housing market. To tackle this task, it is first necessary to consider the criteria for a local housing market area. The paper begins by reviewing previous definitions by both academics and planners, an…
Intra‐Urban migration and housing submarkets: Theory and evidence
In the 1950s and 1960s a group of housing economists at Columbia University developed a framework for the analyses of urban housing markets which was based around the concept of housing submarkets and household migration. There is now widespread agreement amongst housing economists that submarkets should be adopted as a working hypothesis but the concept has been reformulated in terms of intra‐urban relative house price differentials. The accepte…
Structural Change in a Local Urban Housing Market
This paper addresses the structural change in a local urban housing market within a submarket framework. There is a voluminous literature examining the economic structure and operation of urban housing submarkets, with much of the associated empirical work based on static cross-sectional studies. Analysis of the temporal dynamics of local markets has tended to be perfunctory. As such, our understanding of structural change over time remains under…
Spatial Dynamics of the Housing Market: An Interurban Perspective
A major unproven hypothesis in housing economics is that regional ripple effects are caused by household migration between regions. This paper examines household migration and price ripples at the level of local housing markets driven partly by the fact that such migration linkages are likely to be more pronounced between local, rather than regional, housing markets. Following a review of regional housing market studies, several hypotheses linkin…
The Theory of Property-led Local Economic Development Policies
(1996). The Theory of Property-led Local Economic Development Policies. Regional Studies: Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 797-801
Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty
Local Commercial and Industrial Rental Trends and Property Market Constraints
The paper assesses the differential impact of property market constraints on the long-run rental trends in each of the commercial and industrial property market sectors. The perceived view that supply constraints are very inelastic in the retail sector, less so for offices and elastic for industrial properties is reconsidered. A series of hypotheses are derived and tested by an analysis of variance technique which decomposes rental change into lo…
Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Markets
The paper assesses the criteria for the success of British urban policy initiatives and concludes that they are too short term. In the search for a long-term measure of success, the paper examines the process of development of new property markets. The concept of sustainable markets is proposed as the ultimate goal of urban policy. To explore the creation of sustainable markets, the paper charts the development of a city-centre housing market in …
Land use planning policies and market forces: Utopian aspirations thwarted
Tiered Housing Markets and their Relationship to Labour Market Areas
This paper develops a tiered geography of local housing market areas (HMAs) that provides a national framework for spatial planning. It is derived from a theoretical understanding of the economic basis of HMAs. The analysis explores the relationships between the tiers of the HMA geography and local labour market areas. Drawing on this understanding, the empirical research generates sets of different potential geographies of HMAs for England based…
Examining the nonlinear and spatial heterogeneity of housing prices in urban Beijing: An application of GeoShapley
The Rossby Centre Regional Atmospheric Climate Model Part I: Model Climatology and Performance for the Present Climate over Europe
The Rossby Centre Atmospheric Regional Climate Model (RCA2) is described and simulation results, for the present climate over Europe, are evaluated against available observations. Systematic biases in the models mean climate and climate variability are documented and key parameterization weaknesses identified. The quality of near-surface parameters is investigated in some detail, particularly temperature, precipitation, the surface energy budget …
Plague and Its Metaphors in Early Modern France
Research Article| January 01 1996 Plague and Its Metaphors in Early Modern France Colin Jones Colin Jones Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1996) 53: 97–127. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928672 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Colin …
Politics and People in Revolutionary England
Building Societies and Credit Rationing: An Empirical Examination of Redlining
Redlining in the housing market occurs when building societies explicitly delineate in some way sections of cities where they will not usually grant mortgages. This paper considers redlining as part of the broader question of credit rationing, and derives a number of alternative possible explanations of the spatial distribution of mortgage finance. These are considered using data on house sales, and surveys of building society managers and house …
Household movement, filtering and trading up within the owner occupied sector
Jones C. (1978) Household movement, filtering and trading up within the owner occupied sector, Reg. Studies 12, 551–561. This paper outlines the approach of economists to the urban housing market and focuses on the dynamics of the system. The nature of filtering and trading up are considered, but are seen as only partial answers to the processes at work. An alternative approach to the identification of sub-processes is explored. These hypotheses …
French Crossings: I. Tales of Two Cities
Under the general title, ‘French Crossings’, the presidential addresses over the next four years will explore intersections and relationships between cultures, periods, disciplines, approaches, historiographies and problems, all within the general field of early modern and modern French history. ‘Tales of Two Cities’ takes as its approach both comparative history and l'histoire croisée . It compares and contrasts the very differing cultural impac…
Sustainable Urban Form and Residential Development Viability
Arguments about sustainable urban form have generally been in normative terms without recourse to its practicality. The paper shows that the essential elements of urban form are outcomes of real estate markets. The focus of the research is to examine the economic sustainability constraints to the adaptation of the existing urban form via housing market development viability. To address the task a number of econometric models are linked together t…
Thermidor: Cinderella among Revolutionary Journées
Following the overthrow of Robespierre in the journée of 9 Thermidor II (July 27, 1794), the Convention set about establishing an official version of the events of the day. The principal protagonists had been Robespierre’s fellow Montagnards and the Parisian sections, which responded positively to the Convention’s call for armed support against Robespierre and the Paris Commune during the night of 9–10 Thermidor. Yet by the time the moderate depu…
Residential Mobility: An Economic Model
Housing: The Element of Choice
Reframing the intra-urban retail hierarchy
The Overthrow of Maximilien Robespierre and the “Indifference” of the People
French Crossings: Ii. Laughing Over Boundaries
Under the generic title, ‘French Crossings’, this Presidential Address explores the history of laughter in French society, and humour's potential for trangressing boundaries. It focuses on the irreverent and almost entirely unknown book of comic drawings entitled Livre de caricatures tant Bonnes que mauvaises (Book of Caricatures, both Good and Bad), that was composed between the 1740s and the mid-1770s by the luxury Parisian embroiderer and desi…
Leningrad
Urban Homeownership
Household movement, filtering and trading up within the owner occupied sector
Jones C. (1978) Household movement, filtering and trading up within the owner occupied sector, Reg. Studies 12, 551–561. This paper outlines the approach of economists to the urban housing market and focuses on the dynamics of the system. The nature of filtering and trading up are considered, but are seen as only partial answers to the processes at work. An alternative approach to the identification of sub-processes is explored. These hypotheses …
A Two-Stage Model of Tenure Mobility
This paper examines the sequential nature of the residential-mobility decisionmaking process. Initially a model of household tenure mobility is considered, consisting of two stages, the decision to move and the choice of tenure; ultimately this assumption is relaxed. Multiple discriminant analysis is used to distinguish between the different groups of households, between movers and nonmovers, and between different tenures, on the basis of a set o…
Prostitution and the Ruling Class in eighteenth-century Montpellier
Prostitution and the Ruling Class in eighteenth-century Montpellier Get access Colin Jones Colin Jones Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1978, Pages 7–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/6.1.7 Published: 01 October 1978
Housing: The Element of Choice
The Welfare of the French Foot‐soldier
On the Interpretation of Vacancies in the Furnished Rented Sector of the Housing Market
Journal Article On the Interpretation of Vacancies in the Furnished Rented Sector of the Housing Market Get access Colin Jones Colin Jones University of Glasgow Date of receipt of final typescript: February 1979 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 357, 1 March 1980, Pages 157–158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231662 Published: 01 March 1980
Residential Mobility: An Economic Model
Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740–1815
This book is a case study, based on the Montpellier region in southern France, which analyses charity and poor relief from 1750 to the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and the effect of the French Revolution on the treatment of the poor. The breadth of the book's timescale is one of its most notable features; so too is the way in which the changing treatment of the problem of poverty is seen not only in its political and administrative contex…
The Social Functions of the Hospital in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of the Hotel-Dieu of Nimes
Colin Jones, Michael Sonenscher, The Social Functions of the Hospital in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of the Hôtel-Dieu of Nîmes, French Historical Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 172-214
Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region, 1740-1815
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access COLIN JONES COLIN JONES University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXC, January 1984, Page 198, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXC.198 Published: 01 January 1984
Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty
Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region, 1740-1815
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access COLIN JONES COLIN JONES University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume C, Issue CCCXCIV, January 1985, Pages 185–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCIV.185 Published: 01 January 1985
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access COLIN JONES COLIN JONES University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCC, July 1986, Pages 728–729, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCC.728 Published: 01 July 1986
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access COLIN JONES COLIN JONES University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCVIII, January 1986, Page 264, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCVIII.264 Published: 01 January 1986
Building Societies and Credit Rationing: An Empirical Examination of Redlining
Redlining in the housing market occurs when building societies explicitly delineate in some way sections of cities where they will not usually grant mortgages. This paper considers redlining as part of the broader question of credit rationing, and derives a number of alternative possible explanations of the spatial distribution of mortgage finance. These are considered using data on house sales, and surveys of building society managers and house …
Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814
Shorter Notices
The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Politics and People in Revolutionary England
Sisters of Charity and the Ailing Poor
Journal Article Sisters of Charity and the Ailing Poor Get access COLIN JONES COLIN JONES *Department of History and Archaeology, Unwersity of Exeter, Exeter EX44QH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 2, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 339–348, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/2.3.339 Published: 01 December 1989
Introduction: Revisionism, post‐revisionism and new perspectives on the French revolution
1989). Introduction: Revisionism, post‐revisionism and new perspectives on the French revolution. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1-9
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