Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Local policy for housing development and the residential environment -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Local policy and housing development -- 1.3 The research project -- 1.4 A micro-economic and an institutional perspective -- 1.5 Influencing the residential environment -- 1.6 Putting the pieces together -- 2 Cross-national comparison of housing development processes -- 2.1 An approach to policy analysis -- 2.2 A framework for a cross-national comparison -- 2.3 About the research design -- 2.4 Case study files: chronological overview -- 3 The incidence of costs and revenues -- 3.1 The residual theory of land prices -- 3.2 Case study files: financial analysis -- 3.3 The cost side -- 3.4 The income side -- 3.5 Expenditure on the residential environment -- 4 Actors and activities, roles and relations -- 4.1 An institutional analysis of the development process -- 4.2 Case study files: actors, roles, and activities -- 4.3 Unravelling the housing development process -- 4.4 Power and dependence relations -- 4.5 Case study files: relations of power -- 4.6 Interdependence between the actors -- 5 Decisions about the residential environment -- 5.1 The analysis of decision making -- 5.2 Case study files: interactions and decisions -- 5.3 Realising the residential environment -- 5.4 The development process and the residential environment -- 6 Local policy and housing development: lessons to be learnt -- 6.1 Recapitulation -- 6.2 The value of the analytical framework -- 6.3 Changing the process to change the outcomes -- 6.4 Policy options for the Dutch situation -- 6.5 Where to go from here? -- References -- Documentation of the case studies -- Informants -- Appendix Powers and practices for influencing housing development in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France