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Building “with the Systems” vs. Building “in the System” of IMS Open Technology of Prefabricated Construction: Challenges for New “Infill” Industry for Massive Housing Retrofitting [PDF]

open access: yesEnergies, 2018
Post-war industrialized housing between 1955 and 1985 in Belgrade and its special form of integrated prefabrication has been analyzed with a strong interest in transformation capacity of industrialized building model (IBM) on different technical levels ...
Jelena Nikolic
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Building and contesting post-war housing in Dakar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
After the Second World War, European welfare planning was transposed to the African colonies. With regard to housing this meant a true turning point in urban policy. For the first time the colonial state massively invested in the housing of the African urban dwellers. However, the segregationist underground and elite‐focus of the housing schemes at the
Beeckmans, Luce
openaire   +3 more sources

Rethinking Public Housing Through Squatting. The Case of Housing Rights Movements in Rome

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto, 2021
This article analyses the contribution of housing squats and Housing Rights Movements (HRMs) in Rome in envisioning a new model of public estates that could respond to the surge and complexification of the post-2008 housing crisis.
Margherita Grazioli
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Types of housing in the area of the General Urban Plan of Niš [PDF]

open access: yesArhitektura i Urbanizam
The paper analyzes the types of housing in the area of the General Urban Plan of Niš. There are 5 types of housing singled out: city-type family housing, suburban-type family housing, mixed housing zones, multi-family housing from the pre-war and post ...
Maksić-Mulalić Milica   +2 more
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There and Back Again

open access: yesFootprint, 2022
This essay explores the defining role that council housing has played in populist politics in Britain from the post-war era to the present. Central to this was Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy scheme – an archetypal populist policy that became totemic ...
Owen Hopkins
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Life and Debt: Assessing the Impacts of Participatory Housing Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka

open access: yesStability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2016
The Owner Driven Housing Assistance (ODHA) scheme is a donor and government supported initiative to help construct housing for internally displaced persons (IDPs) returning to their original areas of residence after the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War in
Vagisha Gunasekara   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Actor-relational planning in deprived areas : challenges and opportunities in luchtbal Antwerpen, Belgium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this article we report and discuss our experience with actor relational approaches in the regeneration of a post war housing estate in Luchtbal, Antwerp, Belgium.
Boelens, Luuk, Coppens, Tom
core   +1 more source

Post-disaster housing reconstruction in conflict affected Sri Lanka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose This paper is an account of a study to critically analyse the role of housing reconstruction projects in post conflict Sri Lanka and discuss their implications on conflict prevention.
Haigh, Richard   +4 more
core   +1 more source

'Right to Buy':The Development of a Conservative Housing Policy, 1945 – 1980 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The idea of a ‘Right to Buy’ for council house tenants originated after 1945 as part of the Conservative attempt to build a ‘property-owning democracy’; however, it was deemed inappropriate and of doubtful political value by party elites until ...
Davies, Aled R
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The Common Apartment

open access: yesFootprint, 2019
The house, having always been the locus of socio-political struggles of Tehrani citizens, after the Iran-Iraq war gradually came to materialise many more complex issues.
Golnar Abbasi
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