Handbook Of Housing And The Built Environment In The United States

Author : Elizabeth Huttman
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313248745
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Housing and the Built Environment in the United States written by Elizabeth Huttman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because housing is a multidisciplinary, fragmented field of research, investigators are faced with the difficult task of pulling together information scattered in a wide variety of narrowly focused sources. In this volume, comprehensive, current knowledge encompassing the field as a whole is offered for the first time. Twenty-eight specialists in the major subdisciplines provide up-to-date information on the social, economic, environmental, policy, and architectural dimensions of housing and the built environment, together with extensive bibliographies for each topic. Creating a comprehensive framework for study and research in the field, this handbook will be helpful to planners, architects, developers, and citizens groups in addition to academics in promoting better understanding of the broader issues of housing.

Author : Katrin B. Anacker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317282698
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning written by Katrin B. Anacker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe. In 29 chapters, international scholars discuss aspects pertaining to the right to housing, inequality, homeownership, rental housing, social housing, senior housing, gentrification, cities and suburbs, and the future of housing policies. This book is essential reading for students, policy analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and activists, as well as others interested in housing policy and planning.

Author : Elizabeth Huttman
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Housing and the Built Environment in the United States written by Elizabeth Huttman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-11-21 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because housing is a multidisciplinary, fragmented field of research, investigators are faced with the difficult task of pulling together information scattered in a wide variety of narrowly focused sources. In this volume, comprehensive, current knowledge encompassing the field as a whole is offered for the first time. Twenty-eight specialists in the major subdisciplines provide up-to-date information on the social, economic, environmental, policy, and architectural dimensions of housing and the built environment, together with extensive bibliographies for each topic. Creating a comprehensive framework for study and research in the field, this handbook will be helpful to planners, architects, developers, and citizens groups in addition to academics in promoting better understanding of the broader issues of housing.

Author : Barry Goodchild
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780632041015
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing and the Urban Environment written by Barry Goodchild and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-10-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking ahead to the next decade, this book examines the kinds of dwellings likely to be needed, and considers key housing issues, including quality, design standards, urban-growth management, and a renewal of public housing. It provides a review of theory, research findings and trends for students and practitioners in the fields of housing management, town planning, urban studies and architecture.

Author : Willem Van Vliet
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313254273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Handbook of Housing Policies and Practices written by Willem Van Vliet and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1990-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new source provides greater insight into and awareness of housing experiences in other societies, allowing for a more informed assessment of our own national experiences and priorities. This unique compilation points to the value of cross-national work when dealing with these complex issues. Choice Housing issues and policy problems are both universal in scope and, at the same time, inherently specific to a given time and place. All countries are wrestling with their own housing problems and with the everyday mechanics of housing supply and regulation. Specific problems vary immensely from country to country and the policy instruments and institutions chosen to address those problems vary. As the chapters in this volume make clear, definitions of housing problems and approaches to housing policies are firmly embedded in particular national and cultural contexts. A long-awaited signal publication, this book is an important new source of analyses and information necessary to understand these contexts. It also is a major work of reference that provides the raw materials for undertaking comparative studies of housing issues and policy problems. The contributors are renowned authorities in the field who demonstrate how housing is worldwide an integral component of a nation's financial system, its social structure, and its political and policy making apparatus. Because this book provides greater insight in and awareness of experiences in other societies, it allows for a more informed assessment of our own national experiences and priorities. As the contributors make clear, there are no complete or simple solutions to contemporary housing problems. This unique compilation points to the value of cross-national work when dealing with these complex issues. It will be essential reading for scholars and policymakers alike who are concerned with housing issues.

Author : David Levitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351338102
Total Pages : 835 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Housing Design Handbook written by David Levitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone deserves a decent and affordable home, a truth (almost) universally acknowledged. But housing in the UK has been in a state of crisis for decades, with too few homes built, too often of dubious quality, and costing too much to buy, rent or inhabit. It doesn’t have to be like this. Bringing together a wealth of experience from a wide range of housing experts, this completely revised edition of The Housing Design Handbook provides an authoritative, comprehensive and systematic guide to best practice in what is perhaps the most contentious and complex field of architectural design. This book sets out design principles for all the essential components of successful housing design – including placemaking, typologies and density, internal and external space, privacy, security, tenure, and community engagement – illustrated with case studies of schemes by architecture practices working across the UK and continental Europe. Written by David Levitt and Jo McCafferty – two recognised authorities in the field – and with contributions from more than twenty other leading practitioners, The Housing Design Handbook is an essential reference for professionals and students in architecture and design as well as for government bodies, housing associations and other agencies involved in housing.

Author : Jürgen Friedrichs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110851903
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affordable Housing and the Homeless written by Jürgen Friedrichs and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Cremers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783038630524
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compact Courtyard Houses written by Jan Cremers and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Built Environment for the Elderly and the Handicapped written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library Division and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Holger Koch-Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134276109
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stay Cool written by Holger Koch-Nielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In hot dry or warm humid climates, more than half of the urban peak load of energy consumption is used to satisfy air-conditioning demands alone. Since the urbanization rate in developing countries is extreme, the pressure placed on energy resources to satisfy the future requirements of the built environment will be great, unless new, more cost-effective measures can be introduced. Stay Cool is an essential guide for planning and design using active design principles and passive means to satisfy human comfort requirements specifically in these climate zones, based on examples of traditional and modern constructions. The book demonstrates how a design strategy for urban environments and individual buildings, incorporating naturally occurring resources and specific energy-efficient technologies, can create a location, form and structure that promote significant energy-savings. Such strategies can be applied to low cost housing, or indeed to any other buildings, in order to improve comfort with passive means and low energy budgets. Following an outline of climatic issues, characteristics and thermal comfort requirements, the book details the available techniques and technologies that can be used to shape both built and external environments, the building envelope, material selections and natural ventilation and cooling methods to satisfy both human requirements and the need for energy efficiency. It also includes an active design checklist and summary of available design checking tools, a rehabilitation guide for existing urban, building and external environments, and solar charts. Planners, architects, engineers, technicians and building designers will find Stay Cool an inspirational guide and an essential reference when working with planning and design of the built environment in hot dry and warm humid climate zones. It will also be of benefit to students, academics and researchers with an interest in sustainable and energy-efficient architecture techniques and practice.