Full Description
This book provides critical insight into the experience of multi-owned property, and showcases different cultural responses across the Asia-Pacific region. Escalating demand for properties within global cities has created exuberance around apartment living; however less well understood are the restrictions on individual rights and responsibilities associated with collective living. In contrast to the highly populated and traditional communal housing arrangements of past Asian economies, we see an increasing focus on neo-liberalist, market-based policies associated with the rise of an Asian middle class shaping structural change from communal to individualistic. This edited collection unpacks the rights, restrictions and responsibilities of multi-owned property ownership across the Asia-Pacific region; examining the experiences of developers, strata-managers, owners and residents. In doing so, they highlight how the rights of one party affects the restrictions and responsibilities of others within different policy frameworks. This work will reach an interdisciplinary audience including scholars and practitioners of sociology, public policy, urban studies and planning, economics, property management and architecture.
Contents
PART I - Rights.- 1 Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities in Context; Erika Altmann and Michelle Gabriel.- 2 The Unintended Consequences of Strata Title for Urban Regeneration; Rebecca Leshinsky, Peter Newton, and Stephen Glackin.- 3 Termination Legislation: Property Rights or Wrongs?; Alice Christudason.- 4 Impediments to Effective Strata Governance; Nicole Johnston and Eric Too.- 5 City Transition: A MOP Rights Boom in China; Zhixuan Yang and Abbas Rajabifard.- PART II - Restrictions.- 6 Conflict Between Private and Public Restrictions; Cathy Sherry.- 7 Environmental Restriction in Multi-Owned Property; Erika Altmann, Phillipa Watson, and Michelle Gabriel.- 8 Urban Renewal and Affordable Housing in Taiwan; Chin-Oh Chang and Chien-Wen Peng.- 9 Restrictions on Pet Ownership in Multi-Owned Properties; Emma R. Power.- PART III - Responsibilities.- 10 Collective Responsibility in Strata Apartments; Hazel Easthope and Bill Randolph.- 11 Major Repair Work: Whose Responsibility?; Ngai Ming Yip and Sanford Y. F. Poon.- 12 Addressing Conflict Within an Owners Corporation; Kathy Douglas and Robin Goodman.- 13 Efficacy Beliefs and Homeowner Participation; Yung Yau.- 14 Promoting Owner Participation in Management; Lisa Wei Gao.- 15Improving Governance of High-Rise MOPs in Malaysia; Nor Rima Muhamad Ariff.- 16 Owner Responsibilities in Mumbai; Jeeva Sajan.- 17 Multi-Owned Properties: Bringing It All Together; Erika Altmann and Michelle Gabriel.- Index.
