Housing Transformations

Author : Bridget Franklin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134306636
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing Transformations written by Bridget Franklin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining, liberating and illuminating. This groundbreaking book deals with topical issues, which are helpfully divided into two parts. The first presents a conceptual framework examining how the built environment derives from a variety of influences: structural, institutional, textual, and action-orientated. Using illustrated case study examples, the second part covers new build schemes, including urban villages, gated communities, foyers, retirement homes and televillages, as well as refurbishment projects, such as mental hospitals and tower blocks. Multidisciplinary in its focus, Housing Transformations will appeal to academics, students and professionals in the fields of housing, planning, architecture and urban design, as well as to social scientists with an interest in housing.

Author : Dorian Lucas
Publisher : Braun Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783037682753
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Becomes New written by Dorian Lucas and published by Braun Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can homes be upgraded to meet today's demands - from living comfort to energy efficiency and digital requirements? How can the fusion of the historic and the new be used as a design element? The use of existing residential buildings scores not only with the charm of what has been handed down, be it a baroque villa, a 19th-century farmhouse, or a post-war bungalow, but actually also always with an excellent ecological balance. The extensive reworking, whether modernization, renovation or extension, is a widespread and thoroughly rewarding task for many architects. Since the initial situation is documented for each of the presented projects, the reader can clearly understand the redesign process.

Author : Bridget Franklin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134306644
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing Transformations written by Bridget Franklin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including illustrated case study examples, this original and groundbreaking book explores a wide range of literature, combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines and explores how and why we build where we do.

Author : Tareef Hayat Khan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319026720
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houses in Transformation written by Tareef Hayat Khan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the reasons of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. Recognizing Housing Transformation as a natural phenomenon, the book focuses on self-built houses in the city of Dhaka. Firstly, it explains the explicit reasons behind spontaneous housing transformations. Then the book carefully unveils the implicit values that are hidden behind those explicit reasons. The entire book is an ethnographic journey, which expresses unique stories behind houses in transformation.

Author : Christien Klaufus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453726
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Residence written by Christien Klaufus and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riobamba and Cuenca, two intermediate cities in Ecuador, have become part of global networks through transnational migration, incoming remittances, tourism, and global economic connections. Their landscape is changing in several significant ways, a reflection of the social and urban transformations occurring in contemporary Ecuadorian society. Exploring the discourses and actions of two contrasting population groups, rarely studied in tandem, within these cities—popular-settlement residents and professionals in the planning and construction sector—this study analyzes how each is involved in house designs and neighborhood consolidation. Ideas, ambitions, and power relations come into play at every stage of the production and use of urban space, and as a result individual decisions about both house designs and the urban layout influence the development of the urban fabric. Knowledge about intermediate cities is crucial in order to understand current trends in the predominantly urban societies of Latin America, and this study is an example of needed interdisciplinary scholarship that contributes to the fields of urban studies, urban anthropology, sociology, and architecture.

Author : Robert J. Chaskin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616439X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Integrating the Inner City written by Robert J. Chaskin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago Housing Authority s Plan for Transformation repudiated the city s large-scale housing projects and the paradigm that produced them. The Plan seeks to normalize public housing and its tenants, eliminating physical, social, and economic barriers among populations that have long been segregated from one another. But is the Plan an ambitious example of urban regeneration or a not-so-veiled effort at gentrification? Is it resulting in integration or displacement? What kinds of communities are emerging from it? Chaskin and Joseph s book is the most thorough examination of the Plan to date. Drawing on five years of field research, in-depth interviews, and data, Chaskin and Joseph examine the actors, strategies, and processes involved in the Plan. Most important, they illuminate the Plan s limitations which has implications for urban regeneration strategies nationwide."

Author : Susan J. Popkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442268832
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Simple Solutions written by Susan J. Popkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sue Popkin tells the story of how an ambitious—and risky—social experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through the worst days of crime, decay, and rampant mismanagement of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), and now had to face losing the only home many of them had known. The stories Popkin tells in this book offer important lessons not only for Chicago, but for the many other American cities still grappling with the legacy of racial segregation and failed federal housing policies, making this book a vital resource for city planners and managers, urban development professionals, and anti-poverty activists.

Author : Tareef Hayat Khan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319007203
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Transformation written by Tareef Hayat Khan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyzes the phenomenon of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. After describing briefly the history of self-built houses and the phenomenon of transformation around the world, it focuses on its context, the city of Dhaka. Firstly it describes the physical patterns of spontaneous transformation. Then it explains the explicit reasons behind those transformations. Finally, it carefully unveils the implicit values that are hidden behind those explicit reasons. The entire book is an ethnographic journey, which not only expresses unique stories of living with transformation, but also captivates the reader throughout with its compelling way of qualitative judgment.

Author : Sten Gromark
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134808739
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways of Residing in Transformation written by Sten Gromark and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfolding diversity of residential architecture and spatially restructured cities. The complexity of urban and societal processes behind these changes requires new research approaches in order to fully grasp the significant changes in citizens lifestyles, their residential preferences, capacities and future opportunities for implementing resilient residential practices. The international case studies in this book examine why ways of residing have changed as well as the meaning and the significance of the social, economic, political, cultural and symbolic contexts. The volume brings together an interdisciplinary range of perspectives to reflect specifically upon the dynamic exchange between evolving ways of residing and professional practices in the fields of architecture and design, planning, policy-making, facilities management, property and market. In doing so, it provides a resourceful basis for further inquiries seeking an understanding of ways of residing in transformation as a reflection of diversifying residential cultures. This book will offer insights of interest to academics, policy-makers and professionals as well as students of urban studies, sociology, architecture, housing, planning, business and economics, engineering and facilities management.

Author : Peter Meusburger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783790814125
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformations in Hungary written by Peter Meusburger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first decade after the turn towards democracy and market economy, Hungary's society experienced profound changes that affected its regions, towns, villages and individual places in different ways. This is documented by thirteen essays that analyse related political, legal, institutional, and socio-economic structures and processes in time and space in order to contribute to a further understanding of Hungary's ongoing transformation processes and its current situation as one of the leading candidates for EU membership. The topics include constitutive elements of a modern market economy such as banking, foreign direct investment, entrepreneurship, knowledge resources, the labour market, and the housing market. Further essays explore education and income structures, the poverty situation, post-communist voting behaviour, regional and urban development as well as Hungary's cross-border co-operations. With regard to European integration processes, the role of Budapest within the European city system and Hungary's economic situation within Europe are discussed. Drawing together comprehensive empirical data and a great variety of viewpoints, this collection of essays offers innovative examples of the application of different theoretical approaches to studies of economy and society in general, and transformation studies in particular.