Local Authority Property Management: Initiatives, Strategies, Re-Oganization and Reform

Academics and practitioners examine the debate that has surfaced in the property profession since the UK's Audit Commission's 1988 reports on local authority property management. They highlight a switch in attention away from technical concerns about the informational basis of asset registers, property valuation, and auditing, and towards the development of communicative structures for the strategic (predominantly financial and commercial) management of assets currently held by local authorities. The editor is affiliated with Napier University. Six of 16 chapters have previously appeared in two themed issues of the journal Property Management . Some chapters were also presented as papers at an October 1996 conference. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)