Transforming Scotland's public sector housing through community ownership: the reterritorialisation of housing governance? [PDF]
, 2008 In recent decades, UK public-sector housing has increasingly been problematised, with government solutions focusing on modernising the sector by transferring ownership of the housing from the public to the voluntary sector through stock transfer.
Kim McKee, McKee, Kim
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Strategies for In Situ Home Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estates [PDF]
, 2012 Socio-economic and physical change have visibly affected post-socialist cities, yet the state of decay of their inherited large housing estates has only deepened throughout the 1990s, despite the change in tenure through policies of large-scale ...
Soaita, Adriana Mihaela
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Rational fictions and imaginary systems : cynical ideology and the problem figuration and practise of public housing [PDF]
, 2015 This paper aims to show how Van Wel’s theory of problem figuration, Carlen’s concept of imaginary systems and Zizek’s notion of cynical ideology may advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the contemporary construction of housing policy ...
Crawford, Joseph +3 more
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Houses of Experiment:Modern housing and the will to laboratorization [PDF]
, 2013 This paper adds historical and geographical specificity to the link between city building and laboratorization processes. It does so by way of the example of housing in mid-Twentieth Century Britain.
Jacobs, Jane, Strebel, Ignaz
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Rights to housing: reviewing the terrain and exploring a way forward [PDF]
, 2014 Exacerbated by the specificity of housing as a welfare good, debates on housing, citizenship and rights are complex and often confusing. This article attempts to clarify the debate on rights-based approaches in the field of housing, shelter and ...
Beth Watts +7 more
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Sceptical, disorderly and paradoxical subjects : problematizing the ‘will to empower’ in social housing governance [PDF]
, 2011 Research for this work was funded by the British Academy (SG-50318)Drawing on focus group research with social housing tenants this paper illustrates that despite the existence of a political “will to empower” within housing stock transfer policy in ...
McKee, Kim
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CO-RELATIONAL STUDY ON COURTYARD AND SURROUNDING SPACES ITS ACTIVENESS, EXCITEMENT, AND EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AMONG THE OCCUPANTS OF SIVAGANGA – TAMILNADU [PDF]
Proceedings on Engineering Sciences, 2023 Housing evolution has been driven by cultural, economic, and technological advancements. Architecture has a significant role in shaping this evolution, as architects continuously respond to changing needs by using innovative designs and materials.
Komagal Anupama K. , C. V. Subramanian
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China’s Low Income Urban Housing [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, firstly we briefly outline the historical legacies of inner-city housing that are the focus for redevelopment today, and then summarise the legacy of mass housing built by the work-unit or danwei in the Maoist era.
Gu, Chaolin +3 more
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Modern Housing: Heritage and Vitality
Docomomo Journal, 2014 One of the main subjects in contemporary architecture is how to deal with the physical and intellectual requirements of transforming modern housing. Joan Busquets points out in his contribution to this issue, that the special effort made by modern architects and progressive housing politics during the 20th century must be reinterpreted and followed ...
Josep Maria Montaner +1 more
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THE IMPACT OF MODERNITY ON TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS IN BAGHDAD
Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development, 2022 This research traces the study of the development of traditional housing in Baghdad in terms of the internal changes of housing and the impact of modernity on them in AL Adhamiya area in the city of Baghdad.
Shahbaa Ahmed Ali, M. Tayfun Yildirim
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