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Addressing housing needs in minimising the problems of post conflict housing reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Depleted human and social capital, displacement of people, destruction of property, weakened institutions and ruined economy are some of the legacies of conflicts.
Seneviratne, K.   +5 more
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Conflict Prevention through Post Conflict Housing Reconstruction: Good Practices and Lessons Learned [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The concept of ‘DRR’ within natural and technological disasters context conform to the concept of ‘conflict prevention and peace building’ within conflicts or wars context.
Seneviratne, Krisanthi   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

The right to comfort in the century of the self

open access: yesDocomomo Journal, 2021
After the war, the world was divided between two main powers, a Western capitalist bloc led by the USA, and an Eastern communist bloc, driven by the USSR.
Zara Ferreira
doaj   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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

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
doaj   +1 more source

Post conflict housing reconstruction: housing needs and expectations of conflict affected communities [PDF]

open access: yes
Post conflict housing reconstruction plays an important role in establishing the country’s development and prospect of peace. Despite this importance, it was identified that there are inconsistencies between the provision of built housing and the needs
Amaratunga, Dilanthi   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Devicology: Expanding fieldwork possibilities for architectural observations in inhabited interiors

open access: yesCidades, Comunidades e Território, 2022
Japanese mass housing from the 1960s has a colloquial nickname — danchi, which can be translated as “common land.” Originally celebrated by the public as a highly desirable living environment, danchi are now becoming a source of problems for the ...
Tatiana Knoroz
doaj  

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
doaj   +1 more source

Post-conflict Aleppo as a Crisis Context: How Micro-Scale Construction Firms Sustain Housing Production Under Extreme Uncertainty

open access: yesProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
Post-conflict contexts pose severe challenges for urban economies, particularly for micro-scale construction firms that play a critical role in housing provision.
Heba Sofie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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