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The Meaning of Dwelling Features

Author : Henny Coolen
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1586039555
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Dwelling Features written by Henny Coolen and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning of Dwelling Features. Conceptual and Methodological Issues relates the research areas of housing preferences and the meaning of a dwelling with each other and with aspects of the means-end approach as applied in marketing research. It results in a conceptual and methodological framework for studying the meaning of preferences for dwelling features. These features are viewed as functional for achieving the goals and values that people pursue. The meaning of dwelling features lies in these functional relationships. The model presented in this study therefore relates preferences for the features of a dwelling to the meaning they have for people. These relationships are called meaning structures. Meaning structures are measured by a semi-structured interviewing technique, which is an adapted version of the laddering technique for measuring means-end chains, and network methods are used for the representation and analysis of these meaning structures.

The Meaning of Activities in the Dwelling and Residential Environment

Author : J. Meesters
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607504332
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Activities in the Dwelling and Residential Environment written by J. Meesters and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dwelling is a central setting in people’s everyday life. People use their dwelling and residential environment for a large variety of activities and purposes. The Meaning of Activities in the Dwelling and Residential Environment systematically relates activities, settings and meanings to improve the insight into people-environment relations which is called a meaning structure approach. Over 600 people, living in either a city centre, suburban or rural type of residential environment were asked about their everyday activities and the meanings thereof. The results show that meanings are important for the way in which people use their dwelling and residential environment. The meaning structure approach allows for a high level of aggregation identifying general meanings of the dwelling, such as a place to be together with family and friends. It also allows for a low level of aggregation, for example, using internet at home has for many people become part of everyday life, providing them with easy access to a wide range of information. This illustrates the usefulness of meaning structures as a tool for investigating people-environment relations.

Cost of Accessible Housing

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Cost of Accessible Housing written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fair Housing Act Design Manual

Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Housing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Fair Housing Act Design Manual written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Housing and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West European Housing Systems in a Comparative Perspective

Author : H. van der Heijden
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614991952
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Book Synopsis West European Housing Systems in a Comparative Perspective by : H. van der Heijden

Download or read book West European Housing Systems in a Comparative Perspective written by H. van der Heijden and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West European Housing Systems in a Comparative Perspective gives an overview of the results of almost 20 years of international comparative housing research, carried out by the author and his colleagues at OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment. The articles give evidence of the transition from descriptive analysis to theoretical exploration and the growing relevance of methodology during these years. The results provide deeper insight into comparative research methodologies and the viability of existing theories as a framework for analysing differences and similarities in the development of housing systems in West European countries. One of the key issues is the practicability of this framework in future policy making. Especially Kemeny’s theory on rental markets appears to offer a valuable framework to evaluate policy strategies. Therefore the book is not only relevant to academics but also to policy-makers.

Economic Analysis of Neighbourhood Quality, Neighbourhood Reputation and the Housing Market

Author : M. Koopman
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614990336
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Book Synopsis Economic Analysis of Neighbourhood Quality, Neighbourhood Reputation and the Housing Market by : M. Koopman

Download or read book Economic Analysis of Neighbourhood Quality, Neighbourhood Reputation and the Housing Market written by M. Koopman and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residents know exactly what their neighbourhood is like. House-hunters, on the other hand, must find out for themselves about the intangible social quality of a neighbourhood. As a simple rule of thumb, neighbourhood reputation can offer them an assessment of neighbourhood quality. In this research, regression analyses are applied to test whether neighbourhood reputations are being used as a proxy measure for neighbourhood quality in residential mobility choices and establishing the price of homes. The empirical results go beyond answering this research question. What price, for instance, do residents place on liveability? Why does urban restructuring so often fail to change the social make-up of an area, despite a marked increase in owner-occupation? Why does gentrification appear to emerge spontaneously, while deliberate attempts to gentrify an area often fail? How does a neighbourhood acquire that ‘golden edge’? This book also provides the answers to the above policy-oriented questions.

The Meaning of the Built Environment

Author : Amos Rapoport
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816511761
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of the Built Environment written by Amos Rapoport and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaning of the Built Environment is a lively illustrated study of the meanings of everyday buildings for their users. Professor Rapoport uses examples and vignettes, drawn from many cultures and historical eras as well as contemporary America, to explicate a new framework for understanding how the built environment comes to have meaning, both for individual people and whole societies.

Dance of the Spirit

Author : Maria Harris
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307419673
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Dance of the Spirit written by Maria Harris and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each woman has a special spiritual destiny, as unique and inalienable as the rhythms that govern her life. Maria Harris teaches women how to dance to the music of their own souls and discover the spiritual steps that can transform their lives.

Dwelling, Place and Environment

Author : David Seamon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401092516
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Dwelling, Place and Environment written by David Seamon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: themes among the essays resurface and resonate. Though our request for essays was broad and open-ended, we found that topics such as seeing, authenticity, interpretation, wholeness, care, and dwelling ran as undercur rents throughout. Our major hope is that each essay plays a part in revealing a larger whole of meaning which says much about a more humane relation ship with places, environments and the earth as our home. Part I. Beginnings and directions At the start, we recognize the tremendous debt this volume owes to philosopher Martin Heidegger (1890-1976), whose ontological excavations into the nature of human existence and meaning provide the philosophical foundations for many of the essays, particularly those in Part I of the volume. Above all else, Heidegger was regarded by his students and colleagues as a master teacher. He not only thought deeply but was also able to show others how to think and to question. Since he, perhaps more than anyone else in this century, provides the instruction for dOing a phenomenology and hermeneutic of humanity's existential situation, he is seminal for phenomenological and hermeneutical research in the environmental disci plines. He presents in his writings what conventional scholarly work, especially the scientific approach, lacks; he helps us to evoke and under stand things through a method that allows them to come forth as they are; he provides a new way to speak about and care for our human nature and environment.

The Meaning of Home

Author : Edwin Heathcote
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 9780711233775
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Home written by Edwin Heathcote and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are so familiar with the features of our homes, the myriad little decorative details, that we have forgotten how to see them. We might look at a church, read a book or watch a film and attempt to understand its symbolism and its references, but we rarely look at our homes in the same light. Yet from the most ordinary apartment to the most extravagant mansion, every home is a deep well of echoes. Windows to wardrobes, fireplaces to door knockers, Edwin Heathcote attempts to fathom the elements of our everyday domestic lives. The Meaning of Home explores how we build our houses on the souls of our ancestors: how ritual and symbolic elements transmute over time into practical features, and how often this symbolic charge ensures that those features last long after their practical uses are forgotten. After reading this scintillating book, home will never look quite the same again.

In Dwelling

Author : Peter King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317118030
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book In Dwelling written by Peter King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'dwelling', or the physical space we call a house, is full of meaning for us. It can be implacable, in that it can work for or against us, depending on how we are able to access and use it. This means that we have to learn to accept dwelling as it is and find some accommodation with our surrounding environment. This book develops a new approach to looking at dwelling and how we use it. It explores the manner in which we use housing to exclude others and so protect our privacy. It also argues we need to exclude others in order to protect and nurture our loved ones. The book combines philosophical analysis and literary and film criticism to put forward an innovative and insightful new approach to looking at housing. It draws on the work of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Derrida, Kierkegaard, Nussbaum and Scruton and the films of Chaplin, Bergman, Lynch, Tarr, Teshigahara and Van Sant to construct a new theoretical approach to housing research.

Code of Federal Regulations

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border: Thier Main Features and Relations

Author : John Veitch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border: Thier Main Features and Relations written by John Veitch and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

Author : Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319314165
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research by : Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi

Download or read book Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research written by Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook presents a broad overview of the current research carried out in environmental psychology which puts into perspective quality of life and relationships with living spaces, and shows how this original analytical framework can be used to understand different environmental and societal issues. Adopting an original approach, this Handbook focuses on the links with other specialties in psychology, especially social and health psychology, together with other disciplines such as geography, architecture, sociology, anthropology, urbanism and engineering. Faced with the problems of society which involve the quality of life of individuals and communities, it is fundamental to consider the relationships an individual has with his different living spaces. This issue of the links between quality of life and environment is becoming increasingly significant with, at a local level, problems resulting from different types of annoyances, such as pollution and noise, while, at a global level, there is the central question of climate change with its harmful consequences for humans and the planet. How can the impact on well-being of environmental nuisances and threats (for example, natural risks, pollution, and noise) be reduced? How can the quality of life within daily living spaces (home, cities, work environments) be improved? Why is it important to understand the psychological issues of our relationship with the global environment (climatic warming, ecological behaviours)? This Handbook is intended not only for students of various disciplines (geography, architecture, psychology, town planning, etc.) but also for social decision-makers and players who will find in it both theoretical and methodological perspectives, so that psychological and environmental dimensions can be better taken into account in their working practices.

Journal of Architectural and Planning Research

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Architectural and Planning Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Housing Decisions for the Elderly

Author : Leon A Pastalan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135907412
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Housing Decisions for the Elderly written by Leon A Pastalan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995-09-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because many elderly wish to age in place, they typically give little thought to the future of their housing options. Housing Decisions for the Elderly articulates the relevant issues regarding the diversity and complexity of housing decisions in terms of moving or not moving. To move or not to move is really part of the aging-in-place debate. In this guidebook, the authors deal with such issues as changes in economic income and stances; changes in household composition and health; and the psychosocial and metaphysical significance of “house.” This treatment of housing decisions regarding aging in place serves to assist professionals and laypersons to help the elderly make more informed choices and to plan better for the future. Housing Decisions for the Elderly reminds those who work with elderly persons--community organization workers; housing counselors and specialists; home health care agencies; and gerontologists--that the proportion of persons living in family settings decreases with age, so that the older the person, the more likely he or she will be living above or with nonrelatives in institutional or quasi-institutional settings. While changes in household composition typically occur at one or more points in the aging process such as death of spouse, incapacitating illness or loss of income, other housing issues to consider are addressed: why socioeconomic determinants of housing decisions of elderly homeowners focuses primarily on housing characteristics (owning vs. renting), length of housing tenure, age, and support from relatives how elderly housing assistance programs affect housing tenure deals with age as the single most important factor factors that influence pre-retiree’s propensity to move at retirement access to health care, freedom from house maintenance, and supportive services as the main determinants of moving to a continuing care retirement community

Open Prison Architecture

Author : L. Vessella
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 178466247X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Open Prison Architecture written by L. Vessella and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a part of the debate on penitentiary architecture, this book proposes a critical interpretation of the conceptual elements and design approaches involved. This proposal, more than others, may “mend” the relationship between theoretical conception and the actual building practice for a prison. The interpretation is developed from the idea that the architectural project, when it materialises in a built structure, is always the material expression of an abstract idea and of a specific vision of the world which manifests itself through the architectural consistency of the building and of the built spaces. The text presented here focuses on the creation of organisational-functional tools for open-regime minimum security structures and on the identification of architectural solutions in which the residential and domestic features of the structures prevail over the typological and distributive layouts typical of traditional penitentiary buildings. The analysis aims at identifying the main essential principles for an efficient design, such as: the location, size, spatial organisation, typology of housing space, and last but not less important, the rationalisation of the internal flows. The key elements identified are summarised into a series of general design criteria aimed at establishing an efficient relationship between the functional model and the typological structure, as well as between the building and the surrounding urban fabric.