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Japanese Prefabricated Housing Manufacturers
EncyclopediaJapanese prefabricated housing manufacturers have gained international recognition for their innovative approaches to the whole design process, ranging from initial design to innovative cutting-edge technologies, state-of-the-art automated production lines, meticulous workmanship, and mass customisation. In this entry, three manufacturers (Daiwa House,
Hing-Wah Chau +3 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Možnosti uporabe lesa v dodajalnih tehnologijah (3D-tiskanju)
Les, 2017 Additive manufacturing technologies have developed greatly over the last decade in terms of technology and printing materials. Special emphasis is placed on the development of cheaper materials that are derived from natural sources, without the release ...
Mirko Kariž +2 more
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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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Docomomo JournalAfter World War II, Finland and Poland needed swift housing reconstruction. In Finland, the solution was prefabricated, wooden detached houses, which soon were exported globally.
Mia Åkerfelt +3 more
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Modern housing design: prefabricated and modular design in Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture
Pós: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP, 2011 This paper investigates the residential architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, especially the designs which were conceived from an idea of prefabricated, modular, low-cost, and high-scale construction.
Ana Tagliari
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Residential Development in the Coal Mining Districts of the Kuznetsk Basin in 1930–1932
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2020 The article features the problem of residential development that migrant workers had to face in the mining districts of the Kuznetsk Basin during the first five-year plan.
D. P. Sarin
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The public perception of prefabricated housing in the UK
EPiC Series in Built Environment, 2020 The UK has been in a housing crisis for many years and it has missed its house building targets by over 1.3 million houses since 2004. Something needs to change to achieve government target. Prefabricated homes could be a solution to this issue since they could bring overall construction duration down, keep the costs lower and provide higher quality ...
Raj Shah +3 more
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Journal of Prosthodontics, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the inherent and after cyclic loading fracture strength of implant‐supported cantilevered fixed prostheses fabricated from recently introduced additively manufactured (AM) and subtractively manufactured (SM) materials, considering variations in prosthesis height.
Mustafa Borga Dönmez +6 more
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TemaIn the 1940s and 1950s, Finland became a major exporter of wooden prefabricated detached houses. The growth of this industry coincided with a great global demand for housing which followed the Second World War. Different companies and sawmills
Tzafrir Fainholtz, Mia Åkerfelt
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