Housing And The Urban Environment

Author : Barry Goodchild
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0632041013

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Housing and the Urban Environment by Barry Goodchild Pdf

Looking ahead to the next decade, this book examines the kinds of dwellings likely to be needed, and considers key housing issues, including quality, design standards, urban-growth management, and a renewal of public housing. It provides a review of theory, research findings and trends for students and practitioners in the fields of housing management, town planning, urban studies and architecture.

Author : Nicole Gurran,Glen Bramley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137464033

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Urban Planning and the Housing Market by Nicole Gurran,Glen Bramley Pdf

This book re-examines the role of urban policy and planning in relation to the housing market in an era of global uncertainty and change. The relationship between planning and the housing market is a contested problem across research, policy, and practice. Problems with housing supply and affordability in many nations have been linked to planning system constraints, while the global financial crisis has raised new questions about the role of urban planning regulation and processes in responding to housing market trends. With reference to international cases from the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Hong Kong and Australia, the book examines how different systems of urban planning and governance address complex and dynamic housing market trends. It also offers practical guidance on how urban planning can support an efficient supply of appropriate and affordable homes in preferred locations. A detailed study, which explains and decodes the workings of the planning system and housing market, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of human geography and urban planning, as well as housing policy makers and practitioners. To view Nicole Gurran’s related TEDx talk please visit: Housing Crisis? How about housing solutions. TEDx Sydney 2018 (http://bit.ly/2psfpMw)

Author : Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway,Nessa Winston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317433705

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Sustainable Communities and Urban Housing by Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway,Nessa Winston Pdf

Since the start of the twenty-first century, urban communities have faced increasing challenges in housing affordability, with environmental issues causing additional concern. It is clear that changes to urban housing are needed to enhance the resilience of cities and improve the economic, social and physical well-being of residents. This book provides a comparative cross-national perspective on urban housing and sustainability in Europe, exploring the key barriers and drivers associated with sustainable urban development and community regeneration. Country-specific chapters allow for easy comparison, with each summarizing how sustainable housing operates in the country in question, before going on to discuss the key barriers and drivers at play. This book brings a sustainability perspective to the comparative housing literature which frequently fails to integrate the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability. The book outlines many of the changes that professionals and residents will need to make to their practices and cultures in order to enhance housing resilience. Students, researchers and professionals with an interest in sustainable housing creation and regeneration will find this book an invaluable reference.

Author : John Simonds
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0070576203

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Garden Cities 21: Creating a Livable Urban Environment by John Simonds Pdf

A planning roadmap for the 21st-Century American city. Topics include the Urban Dwelling--living space, space expansion, outdoors-in, attached dwellings, clustering, and stacking; the Neighborhood--togetheness, conformation, places, ways, character, neighborhood ties, planned economics, and communities; and the Urban Metropolis. Index. 80 illustrations, 20 in full color.

Author : Graham Towers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136391859

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Introduction to Urban Housing Design by Graham Towers Pdf

This clear and concise guide is the ideal introduction to contemporary housing design for students and professionals of architecture, urban design and planning. With the increasing commitment to sustainable design and with an ever-increasing demand for houses in urban areas, housing design has taken on a new and crucial role in urban planning. This guide introduces the reader to the key aspects of housing design, and outlines the discussion about form and planning of urban housing. Using chapter summaries and with many illustrations, it presents contemporary concerns such as energy efficient design and high density development in a clear and accessible way. It looks at practical design solutions to real urban problems and includes advice on reclamation and re-use of buildings. The guidance it presents is universally relevant. Part two of the book features current case studies that illustrate the best in high density, sustainable housing design providing the reader with design information, and design inspiration, for their own projects.

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134599363

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Urban Problems (Routledge Revivals) by Michael Pacione Pdf

Urban problems and their resolution represent one of the major challenges for planners and decision makers in the modern world. This book, first published in 1990, makes a major contribution to the field, presenting an international and interdisciplinary approach to the challenges presented by the urban environment. The coverage is comprehensive, ranging from the economic and political dimensions of the capitalist system, to the issues of poverty and deprivation and questions about housing equity. This is an essential reference guide to social, economic and environmental problems in urban areas, which is of great value to students of planning, urban studies, geography and sociology.

Author : Jan Tanghe
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483285733

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Living Cities by Jan Tanghe Pdf

This book aims to demonstrate the new awareness concerning the urban environment in Europe. The authors believe that the unlimited outward expansion of our cities must be halted and that we should strive for "inner growth" within urban centres, and for a more human approach to city development. Contact between city dwellers should be encouraged to reduce the isolation of those living in sprawling communities and to remedy the evils resulting from the dispersion of urban functions. To achieve this the book puts forward a number of planning and design criteria which would solve more satisfactorily the problems of housing and living conditions in cities.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : City planning
ISBN : MINN:31951P01152816D

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Housing and the Urban Environment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing Pdf

Author : Terry Moor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134822669

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Reinventing an Urban Vernacular by Terry Moor Pdf

With increasing population and its associated demand on our limited resources, we need to rethink our current strategies for construction of multifamily buildings in urban areas. Reinventing an Urban Vernacular addresses these new demands for smaller and more efficient housing units adapted to local climate. In order to find solutions and to promote better urban communities with an overall environmentally responsible lifestyle, this book examines a wide variety of vernacular building precedents, as they relate to the unique characteristics and demands of six distinctly different regions of the United States. Terry Moor addresses the unique landscape, climate, physical, and social development by analyzing vernacular precedents, and proposing new suggestions for modern needs and expectations. Written for students and architects, planners, and urban designers, Reinventing an Urban Vernacular marries the urban vernacular with ongoing sustainability efforts to produce a unique solution to the housing needs of the changing urban environment.

Author : Dan Soen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483145761

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New Trends in Urban Planning by Dan Soen Pdf

New Trends in Urban Planning: Studies in Housing, Urban Design and Planning presents the trends in urban planning with a wide array of theory and practice in various countries. This book deals with the overall problems facing urban planners in their striving at an enhanced quality of life in human settlements. Organized into seven panels encompassing 29 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the planning aspects of a general nature. This text then highlights some of the important trends in the recent change of focus due to the view that the settlement is a better contemporary definition than urban planning. Other chapters consider that the theory and practice of urban planning is found to be inadequate for the purpose of remedying deficiencies in urban areas. The final chapter deals with the specific developments that are taking place in Israel and elsewhere. This book is a valuable resource for teachers, practitioners, researchers, administrators, and politicians.

Author : Anthony Gar-On Yeh,Mee Kam Ng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429831218

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Planning for a Better Urban Living Environment in Asia by Anthony Gar-On Yeh,Mee Kam Ng Pdf

First published in 2000, this volume explores how Asia has developed very rapidly in the last quarter of the century and will be a main focus of the world in the 21st century. With rapid growth and development, the urban areas in the region are undergoing dramatic changes. An appreciation of the heterogeneous nature of Asian cities and the related planning practices in the first step to understand various urban development problems in the region. This book is a consolidated effort by prominent scholars in Asian planning schools to explore urban development and planning practices in Asia. The book reflects on and examines some of the past and current challenges, and considers future prospects of urban and regional planning, environment, housing, redevelopment and conservation, and planning education in Asia. This book should be useful to students, teachers, researchers, professionals and people who are interested in urban development, planning and environment in Asia.

Author : Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi. Urban Research & Development Centre
Publisher : Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East Region
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9758401416

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Inquiry Into Urban Environment by Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi. Urban Research & Development Centre Pdf

This book brings together texts that cover various dimensions of the city, from urban scale to housing and building scale and accordingly helps to create a comprehensive perception of urban environment. All articles included are revised forms of papers presented by guest speakers of Eastern Mediterranean University, Urban Research and Development Center (URDC / KENT-AG) between the years 2000 to 2005.

Author : Edward Krupat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521319463

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People in Cities by Edward Krupat Pdf

An analysis of current research and theory about the ways in which cities affect people.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
ISBN : LCCN:70614222

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Housing and the Urban Environment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing Pdf

Author : Katy Chey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317279754

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Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities by Katy Chey Pdf

This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied. The case studies presented offer an insight into why a certain housing type flourished in a specific city and the variety span across cities in the world where distinct housing types have prevailed. It also pursues how housing types developed, evolved, and helped define the city, looks into how dwellers inhabited their dwellings, and analyses how the housing typologies correlates in a contemporary context. The typologies studied are back-to-backs in Birmingham; tenements in London; Haussmann Apartment in Paris; tenements in New York; tong lau in Hong Kong; perimeter block, linear block, and block-edge in Berlin; perimeter block and solitaire in Amsterdam; space-enclosing structure in Beijing; micro house in Tokyo, and high-rise in Toronto.