This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critica…
"A qualitative approach to diversity and density in housing A concept that unites architectural and urban design A wide range of original drawings of benchmark case studies Diversity and density in housing today Accomodation of diversity and the creation of urban density are a f…
This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critica…
This text provides a comprehensive survey of the implications of population ageing, in countries across the world, relative to a range of specific interrelated issues - social security schemes, employer pensions, educational attainment, wage growth and distribution, retirement a…
The book analyzes housing finance policy in developing countries at a time of unprecedented change in such systems. It brings together and updates journal articles originally written as background papers and sector studies for the World Bank's involvement in these changes. It fo…
The book looks at housing finance policy in developing countries at a time of unprecedented change in such systems. It brings together a wide variety of changes in housing systems in a relatively simple conceptual framework.
Home in the Islands addresses changes in housing in the Pacific, considers how these changes came about, and explores their consequences. Architecture intersects with critical anthropology and geography as contributors examine how social, political, religious, economic, demograp…