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The impact of a new light rail system on single-family property values in Charlotte, North Carolina
This paper examines the impact of a new light rail system on single family housing values in Charlotte, North Carolina is evaluated from 1997 to 2008. We use a Hedonic Price Analysis (HPA) to estimate how proximity to light rail, housing characteristics ...
Sisi Yan, Eric Delmelle, Mike Duncan
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Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure has declined due to smoking reductions, expanding workplace and public smoke-free air laws, and smoke-free housing policy promotion.
Shannon M. Farley +6 more
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Co-operative Housing in Lithuania as a Field of Architectural Experimentation (1960s–1980s)
The paper is a study of house-building cooperatives in the Lithuanian SSR as a field of architectural experimentation in planning, design and construction of mass housing during the late Soviet period (1960s–1980s).
Marija Drėmaitė
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Reflections on climate change challenges in family house design [PDF]
Climate change is increasingly influencing how residential spaces are designed and used. While much attention has been given to dense urban environments, single-family homes in suburban and rural areas remain largely absent from mainstream climate ...
Parviz Munaza, Finka Maroš
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Airtightness Assessment of Single Family Houses in Belgium
AbstractAirtight construction lies at the heart of achieving high energy performance in dwellings. But how well does it apply in new construction? This paper presents results from airtightness measurements on 44 randomly selected, standard new built single family houses in Belgium and from 4 case studies including 78 additional measurements. The houses
Laverge, Jelle +3 more
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Energy retrofitting of a single-family house [PDF]
This article shows a real ongoing project called RenoActive, which is financed by company Velux. In cooperation with the company mentioned above an old single-family house was chosen to renovate. Three energy alternatives had been calculated: Standard, Comfort and Deluxe.
Sánka Imrich, Petráš Dušan
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The Integral Living Research (ILR) group advocates for five foundational principles in the urban housing environment: 1) privacy, 2) security, 3) access to healthy nourishment, 4) access to green space, and 5) self-efficacy enhancement through a culture ...
Diana Susan Nicholas +2 more
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Investigation of Reasons for Preferring Small Houses Built in Konya
Today, as a result of the changes in social, cultural and family life with globalization, the demands and needs of people have also changed. Due to reasons such as changes in lifestyle, shrinkage in the family, individualization and single-person living ...
Kerim Çınar, Hatice Çınar
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In soviet Lithuania standard single-family housing projects have been actively developed and constantly improved. It was possible to identify about 40 different standard housing projects in Lithuania’s rural areas in the early eighties.
Aistė Galaunytė
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House prices, housing development costs, and the supply of new single-family housing in German counties and cities [PDF]
This paper employs panel data on 413 German counties and cities from 2004 to 2009 to investigate the supply of new single-family housing in local housing markets.
Lerbs, Oliver W.
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