David Thorns
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Christopher Thorns was a New Zealand sociologist, particularly known for his work on urban and suburban sociology. Early life and family Born in County Durham, England, in 1943, Thorns graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of Sheffield and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Exeter.
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Published Works
- Home, Home Ownership and the Search for Ontological Security (1998) (574)
- Gazing or Performing? (2001) (180)
- Moving House, Creating Home: Exploring Residential Mobility (2002) (152)
- The Transformation of Cities: Urban Theory and Urban Life (2002) (120)
- Beyond the Hype: Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Society/Knowledge Economy (2006) (111)
- Meanings of home for older home owners (1996) (106)
- The Transformation of Cities (2002) (77)
- THE SOCIALIST CITY: SPATIAL STRUCTURE AND URBAN POLICY (1981) (74)
- Presenting and creating home: The influence of popular and building trade print media in the construction of home (2004) (53)
- House and Home and their Interaction with Changes in New Zealand's Urban System, Households and Family Structures (1999) (50)
- A Decade On: Reflections on the Resource Management Act 1991 and the Practice of Urban Planning in New Zealand (2001) (47)
- The implications of differential rates of capital gain from owner occupation for the formation and development of housing classes (1981) (43)
- POLICY REVIEW Housing Policy in the 1990s-New Zealand a Decade of Change (2000) (38)
- Industrial Restructuring and Change in the Labour and Property Markets in Britain (1982) (37)
- Nostalgia, Community and New Housing Developments: A Critique of New Urbanism Incorporating a New Zealand Perspective (2003) (32)
- Home away from home: the primary/second-home relationship. (2006) (32)
- Understanding Aotearoa/New Zealand : historical statistics (1997) (32)
- Gated Communities as Exemplars of ‘Forting Up’ Practices in a Risk Society (2008) (29)
- Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World (2011) (29)
- The Global Meets the Local (1997) (27)
- Owner-Occupation: Its Significance for Wealth Transfer and Class Formation (1981) (26)
- Temporary use and the onto-politics of ‘public’ space (2017) (26)
- Real Estate Advertising and Intraurban Place Meaning: Real Estate Sales Consultants at Work (2008) (25)
- Fragmenting Societies?: A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Urban Development (1992) (23)
- Community, Class, and Kinship—Bases for Collective Action within Localities (1984) (21)
- Eclipse of equality : social stratification in New Zealand (1983) (20)
- Chapter 2 House and home: methodology and methods for exploring meaning and structure (2008) (20)
- Social theory and the Australian city (1985) (19)
- New Solutions to Old Problems: Housing Affordability and Access within Australia and New Zealand (1988) (17)
- New Zealand housing policy: Continuities and changes (1986) (17)
- The knowledge economy/society: the latest example of "Measurement without theory"? (2008) (17)
- The Role of Information Communications Technology in Retrieving Local Community (2007) (16)
- The Challenge of Doing Sociology in a Global World: The Case of Aotearoa/New Zealand (2003) (16)
- The production of homelessness: From individual failure to system inadequacies (1989) (16)
- The quest for community: Social aspects of residential growth (1976) (15)
- The Impact of Homeownership and Capital Gains upon Class and Consumption Sectors (1989) (15)
- THE CHANGING SYSTEM OF RURAL STRATIFICATION (1968) (14)
- New Directions in Sociology (1978) (12)
- Cities unlimited: The sociology of urban development in Australia and New Zealand (1978) (11)
- The Remaking of Housing Policy: The New Zealand Housing Strategy for the 21st Century (2006) (10)
- Mobility of Farm Families (1969) (10)
- The role of housing inheritance in selected owner occupied societies (Britain, New Zealand, Canada) (1994) (9)
- Housing Markets and Sub-Markets: An Analysis of the Role of Financial Institutions in the Allocation of Housing (1980) (9)
- The New Zealand experience of housing allowances (2007) (9)
- Work and its Definition (1971) (8)
- The Creation and Transfer of Housing Wealth: The Experience of Elderly New Zealanders (1994) (8)
- Regional Variations In Housing And Wealth Accumulation In New Zealand (1997) (8)
- Different Forms of Knowledge and New Chinese Skilled Immigrants' Adaptation to New Zealand's Knowledge Society. (2009) (6)
- Cities and Regions (2012) (5)
- A Methodological Quest for Studying Interactions in Advanced Video Conferencing Environments (2008) (5)
- Housing booms and changes to New Zealand housing affordability: the policy challenge (2009) (5)
- Beyond The Hype (2012) (4)
- Creating Sustainable Housing: The challenge of moving beyond environmentalism to new models of social development (2003) (4)
- Being Face to Face: A State of Mind or Technological Design? (2009) (4)
- Exploring the Knowledge Economy/Society (2007) (3)
- Everyday Life in a Globalizing World (2012) (3)
- HOME OWNERSHIP AND CONSUMPTION SECTORS (1992) (3)
- Age Time and Calendar Time: Two Facets of the Residential Mobility Process (1985) (3)
- Houses and Homes (2012) (3)
- Home ownership: Continuing dream or an approaching nightmare (2008) (3)
- A Tale of Two Cities: Marriage and Mobility in New Zealand (1986) (2)
- Crisis in Society: Urban and Regional Implications (1982) (2)
- Suburban Values and the Urban System1 (1975) (1)
- Virtual Places and Spaces (2012) (1)
- First breeding data for Slaty Bristlefront Merulaxis ater, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (2009) (1)
- Urban Social Inequality and Social Exclusion (2002) (1)
- Participation in rural planning. (1970) (1)
- Symposium on Control of the City (1977) (1)
- Rebuilding Housing Policies in Response to the Current Crisis. Is Homeownership the Solution (2011) (1)
- Planning and the Urban Environment (2002) (1)
- National Accounting Frameworks for Measuring Information and Knowledge Economies (2008) (1)
- WHO GETS HOUSED: THE CHANGING NATURE OF HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND ACCESS IN ADVANCED CAPITALIST SOCIETIES (1988) (1)
- Book Reviews (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews : CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT. Urban Studies Yearbook, VoL 2 (1986) (0)
- Everyday Life in the City (2002) (0)
- A Journey in Comparative Historical Sociology (2016) (0)
- ECONOMIC AND EMPLOYMENT CHANGES (1992) (0)
- Conclusion: Urban and Rural Futures (2012) (0)
- Urban Development in Australia Max Neutze, Sydney, Allen and Unwin. 1977. pp. 245, $A9.50 (pb) (1978) (0)
- Sustainable Housing, Communities and Neighbourhoods (2012) (0)
- Consumption and Urban Culture (2002) (0)
- LOCALITY AS A SOCIAL BASE (1992) (0)
- Places of Consumption (2012) (0)
- Creating New Knowledge Space: The Role of Virtual Technologies in Creating New Research practices (2006) (0)
- Creating E-Research Communities: The Aotearoa/New Zealand National Project (2006) (0)
- RESTRUCTURING OF STATE PROVISIONS: Case studies of change (1992) (0)
- Industrial-Modern Cities (2002) (0)
- The Sustainable City (2002) (0)
- Cities Unlimited: Studies in Society. (1981) (0)
- Book Reviews : HIGH TECHNOLOGY, SPACE AND SOCIETY, VOL. 28, URBAN AFFAIRS ANNUAL REVIEW. Edited by M. Castells. Sage, New York 1985. $16.50 (paper) (1987) (0)
- Housing wealth and inheritance: the New Zealand experience (2013) (0)
- REASSESSMENT OF DEBATE AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE (1992) (0)
- Demographic Change and the City (2002) (0)
- THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR: The restructuring and fragmentation of capitalism (1992) (0)
- Housing Booms and Changes to Housing Affordability (2007) (0)
- Book review248 pp. £22.55 The Suburban Squeeze: Land Conversion and Regulation in the San Francisco Bay Area, David E. Dowall, University of California Press, Beverley, Hills, CA (1983) (1985) (0)
- APPENDIX: Treaty of Waitangi (1992) (0)
- Suburban Values and the Urban System (1975) (0)
- Book Reviews (1985) (0)
- The creation of collaborative spaces of knowledge – a social dynamic process (2007) (0)
- Migrations inverses et stratification sociale (1976) (0)
- The Corporatist Thesis and the New Zealand State: A Rejoinder (1988) (0)
- Book Reviews : Community: A Critical Response J. R. Gusfield, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1976, pp. 120, £4.00 (1978) (0)
- Economic geography and island life: A contribution to debate (2012) (0)
- Management problems in further education (1974) (0)
- Book Reviews : AUSTRALIAN SOCIOLOGIES. By D.J. Austin. Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1984. 202 pp (1985) (0)
- Place, Identity and Everyday Life (2012) (0)
- Access Grid, video conferencing, and real life simulation (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews : THE CITY: PATTERNS OF DOMINATION AND CONFLICT, by Brian Elliott and David McCrone. London, Macmillan, 1982. 173 pp. $11.95 (paper) THE AUSTRALIAN CITY: A WELFARE GEOGRAPHY, by R.J. Stimson. Melbourne, Longman Cheshire. 309 pp. $12.95 (paper) (1984) (0)
- Books Reviews (1999) (0)
- REGIONS AND BARGAINING POWER (2003) (0)
- Sustaining the Places in Which We Live (2012) (0)
- Knowledge Workers and the Knowledge Economy (2008) (0)
- Short Communication: Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus : first record for Uganda (2015) (0)
- Access Grid Environments as Spaces of Mixed Spatial Interaction The Third International Conference on e-Social Science (2007) (0)
- Referees 2005 (2005) (0)
- THE NATION STATE (1992) (0)
- Embracing Plurality: Challenges of Research on Social Issues (2002) (0)
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