"220" Result
Sort By:
Lim Kim San's name is linked inextricably to Singapore's public housing. This is entirely appropriate because he played a crucial role in the success of the Housing Board, which transformed both the country's physical landscape and gave Singaporeans a tangible stake in the futur…
This dissertation examines the development of public apartment complexes built by municipal authorities and the Japan Housing Corporation after World War II. It begins with the dehousing of urban areas in Japan by the United States Army Airforces during 1945 in which wooden domi…
For the past twenty years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has used the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) to measure the performance of local public housing agencies in their implementation of the public housing program. Among the more than 3,500 publi…
Based on nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in al-Zawiya al-Hamra, a neighborhood in northern Cairo, this dissertation argues that the Egyptian "modern" capital is made not only through the discourses and grand plans of the Egyptian state but also through the practices of…
This dissertation studies a set of public housing estates in Porto developed in the period surrounding the Portuguese revolution, part of which have rarely been examined in architectural research. In doing so, it seeks to provide a global reading of this period that may represen…
Across Europe a new generation of practices are transforming social housing. Responding to continued high demand, changing clients and new funding methods, architects are once again addressing how homes are delivered at scale, achieving high standards of design and a new focus o…
"Across Europe a new generation of practices are transforming social housing. Responding to continued high demand, changing clients and new funding methods, architects are once again addressing how homes are delivered at scale, achieving high standards of design and a new focus …
"Across Europe a new generation of practices are transforming social housing. Responding to continued high demand, changing clients and new funding methods, architects are once again addressing how homes are delivered at scale, achieving high standards of design and a new focus …
This is a growing sector undergoing a huge period of change - with local authorities able to build their own housing for the first time in decades. Social Housing: Definitions and Design Exemplars explores how social/affordable housing has been delivered and designed with succes…
"The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960s, studying Los Angeles and its political structure, the contractions in policies around public housing, the impact on Mexican Americans, and the building of Dodg…
"The book offers a history of Chavez Ravine with special attention to the period after World War II to the early 1960s, studying Los Angeles and its political structure, the contractions in policies around public housing, the impact on Mexican Americans, and the building of Dodg…