Hybrid Housing
Author: Sherry Ahrentzen
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780938744771
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Under One Roof
Author: George C. Hemmens
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780791429051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the status of shared housing in the U.S. housing market, establishes a research and policy agenda on shared housing as a contribution to the national effort to improve housing affordability and quality, and argues for changing public policy to support it.
Bioclimatic Housing
Author: Richard Hyde
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1136571140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the search for sustainable architecture, there is growing interest in the relationship between nature and design. In this vital new book, the termbioclimatic relating to the dynamic between climate and living organisms, is applied by the authors in focusing on countries where housing requires cooling for a significant part of the year. In this context, Bioclimatic Housing covers creative, vernacular architecture to present both the theory and practice of innovative, low-energy architecture. The book interweaves the themes of social progress, technological fixes and industry transformation within a discussion of global and country trends, climate types, solutions and technologies. Prepared under the auspices of a 5-year International Energy Agency (IEA) project, and with case studies from Iran, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Italy, this is a truly international and authoritative work, providing an essential primer for building designers, builders, developers and advanced students in architecture and engineering.
Social Housing, Wellbeing and Welfare
Author: James Gregory
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2022-07-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1447348583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and impact. Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose of social housing in today’s welfare state. The closing arguments of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing, designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households, with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the same equality of social status.
The Hybrid House
Author: Catherine Wanek
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1423603168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Hybrid House highlights real people who have used a combination of design strategies to reduce their energy use - sometimes by as much as 90 percent! Author and photographer Catherine Wanek showcases sustainable new and renovated houses that incorporate natural building materials like straw bales, adobe and real wood, with renewable energy systems, that will minimize a modern home's carbon footprint, while ensuring a healthy environment for residents. See inspiring contemporary examples from the United States, Canada and Europe.
Urban Geography
Author: Michael Pacione
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 745
ISBN-13: 0415462010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.
Affordable Housing Governance and Finance
Author: Gerard Van Bortel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1351621777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a large shortage of affordable housing across Europe. In high‐demand urban areas housing shortages lead to unaffordable prices for many target groups. This book explores innovations to support a sufficient supply of affordable and sustainable rental housing. Affordable housing is increasingly developed, financed and managed by a mix of market, state, third sector and community actors. Recent decades in large parts of the Western world have consecutively shown state-dominated, non-profit housing sectors, an increased role for market forces and the private sector, and the rise of initiatives by citizens and local communities. The variety of hybrid governance and finance arrangements is predicted to increase further, leading to new affordable housing delivery and management models. This book explores these innovations, with a focus on developments across Europe, and comparative chapters from the USA and Australia. The book presents new thinking in collaborative housing, co-production and accompanying finance mechanisms in order to support the quantity and the quality of affordable rental housing. Combining academic robustness with practical relevance, chapters are written by renowned housing researchers in collaboration with practitioners from the housing sector. The book not only presents, compares and contrasts affordable housing solutions, but also explores the transferability of innovations to other countries. The book is essential reading for researchers and professionals in housing, social policy, urban planning and finance.
This is Hybrid
Author: Aurora Fernández Per
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9788461464524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is Hybrid is a selection of the articles and projects published in the Hybrids series of the magazine a+t running over four issues, during 2008 and 2009. The prologue, written by Steven Holl specially for this compilation, puts forward the potential of hybrid buildings in the 21st Century.
Home
Author: Alison Blunt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1134319517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginaries of home are central to the construction of people’s identities. An essential guide to studying home and domesticity, this book locates ‘home’ within wider traditions of thought. It analyzes different sources, methods and examples in both historical and contemporary contexts; ranging from homes on the American frontier and imperial domesticity in British India, to Australian suburbs, multicultural London, and South Asian diasporic homes. The core argument of the book has three main parts that cut across each of its chapters: home-making identity and belonging homely and unhomely spaces. Each chapter includes text boxes and exercises and is well illustrated with cartoons, line drawings, and photographs. Outlining the social relations shaping, (and being influenced by) the geographies of home; and the imaginative as well as material importance of home, this book will be a valuable reference for students of geography, sociology, gender studies, and those interested in the home and domesticity.
