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The right to comfort in the century of the self
Docomomo 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
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Types of housing in the area of the General Urban Plan of Niš [PDF]
Arhitektura i UrbanizamThe 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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Footprint, 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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Stability : 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
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Romanian Suburban Housing : Home Improvement through Owner-building [PDF]
, 2013 The new suburban housing developments in post-socialist cities have been ubiquitous icons of socioeconomic and physical change. This paper examines suburban owner-built housing as a long-term strategy of home improvement in Romania. It analyses residents’
Soaita, Adriana Mihaela
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Footprint, 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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Devicology: Expanding fieldwork possibilities for architectural observations in inhabited interiors
Cidades, 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
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Urban housing experiments in Yugoslavia 1948-1970 [PDF]
Spatium, 2015 In the period from 1948 to 1970 urban housing architecture in Yugoslavia had a distinctly experimental character as it strived intensively towards research and establishment of new architectural patterns and values that would mark the period of ...
Alfirević Đorđe +1 more
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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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Docomomo Journal, 2021 The neighborhood unit (Sector) in Chandigarh was conceived as a self-sufficient, repeated element to create the matrix of the city along with the hierarchical circulation system defined by the 7Vs to disburse traffic in an orderly manner.
Sangeeta Bagga
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