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What Do We Know about Apartments and Their Markets? [PDF]

This paper examines major themes in apartment market research. The intent is to provide an overview of academic studies of the apartment market and to outline directions for future research.
John D. Benjamin, G. Donald Jud, G. Stacy Sirmans   +2 more
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Urban environment, health, and equity: A population-based study of symptoms and annoyances related to air pollution, traffic noise, and greenness. [PDF]

Environ Epidemiol
Eiffener E, Pyko A, Axelsson Ö, Murekatete R, Merritt AS, Georgelis A, Gruzieva O, Lõhmus M, Andersson N, Eneroth K, Ögren M, Pretto M, Dorbolò L, Ljungman P, Bergström A, Eriksson C.   +15 more
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Relation of dampness to sick building syndrome in Japanese public apartment houses. [PDF]

Environ Health Prev Med, 2009
Saijo Y, Nakagi Y, Ito T, Sugioka Y, Endo H, Yoshida T.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Thoroughfares and Apartment Values [PDF]

While the monocentric urban models were once adequate for predicting the declining rent gradients for North American cities, the advent of a transportation system with major arteries such as turnpikes, thoroughfares and commuter rails has distorted the ...
Forrest E. Huffman, Paul K. Asabere
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Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of the Insulation Regulation for Eco-Friendly Houses on the Unit Thermal Load for Apartment Houses

, 2010
In order to investigate the effects of the insulation regulation for eco-friendly houses on the unit thermal load for apartment houses, we calculated the unit thermal load of two apartment models, abiding by two kinds of insulation regulations of the ...
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COFACTOR-residential: Hourly electricity and heating data from residential buildings in Norway. [PDF]

Data Brief
Sørensen ÅL, Lien SK, Walnum HT.
europepmc   +1 more source

Applications of Geographic Information Systems for the Analysis of Apartment Rents [PDF]

This study is the first to incorporate comprehensive regional factors into the analysis of the variations of apartment rent in a particular metropolitan area.
Douglas S. Bible, Cheng-Ho Hsieh
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Promoting Precarity or Creating Cushions? Examining Canadians' Experiences With Financialization and Insecurity Across the Life Course

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines experiences and perceptions of economic insecurity across individual social trajectories within the context of pervasive financialization in Canada. Drawing on a comprehensive pan‐Canadian survey (n = 7483) and set of interviews (n = 127) collected as part of the Great Canadian Class Study (GCCS), we use a mixed‐methods ...
Michelle Maroto, Guillaume Durou, Samuel Braden, Andrea DeKeseredy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source