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A UK building cycle chronology (1785-2005)Long cycles and major cycles; The first industrial revolution (1785-1856); The second industrial revolution (1856-88); The age of electricity (1888-1918); Inter-war turbulence (1918-44); The post-war consumer boom (1944-81); The computer age (1981-2008?); The London building cycle (1714-2005); Middlesex deeds (1714-1900); London house-building (1856-2005); A London building cycle chronology; 6 Case Study: The City of London Office Market; The development of the city economy; City of capital; The City in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

The global economic crisis of 2008 was precipitated by a housing market crash, thus highlighting the destabilizing influence of the property cycle upon the wider economy. This timely book by a world authority explores why cycles occur and how they affect the behaviour of real estate markets. The central argument put forward is that growth and instability are inextricably linked, and that building investment acts both as a key driver of growth and as the source of the most volatile cyclical fluctuations in an economy. The role of building cycles in both economic growth and urban development i.