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taking place in housing sector in India. The new changes suggest how housing affordability, quality and lifestyles reality is …’ of affordable housing standards - to articulate function of housing as a conceptualization of social reality in modern … and lifestyles are embedded in both discourse and practice in India. The housing ‘dream’ currently being packaged and fed …
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housing has almost doubled. While traditional housing affordability is measured in terms of house prices and incomes, a … risen over the same period, they have not kept pace with rising house prices. In terms of disposable income, the cost of … past. The environmental impact of modern Australian housing is significant. Australians have resisted the need for …
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paper presents a review of some aspects of integrated design for the planning and construction of energy efficient housing … integrated design approach according to existing references. This is then contrasted with normal housing design practice in Chile … houses and housing projects that place specific focus on energy performance are then analysed, with follow-ups and interviews …
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The home is the place where the intimacy of living is manifested and where relationships with the outside world are formed. The truest sense of domestic space is expressed in the opposition between the interior dimension and collective aspirations. A society's needs and aspirations are reflected...
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Mass customisation involves the provision of product variants that fulfil clients' specific requirements seeking to increase product values. The configuration process involves a chain of decisions, which needs to be undertaken to create product variants that meet each client specific...
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Housing is perhaps the most common component of a community’s manufactured capital wealth stocks damaged or destroyed … by natural disasters. Consequently the restoration of housing in the recovery process takes on a paramount significance …. This significance is magnified by the complexity of housing restoration and the varying and specialised skill sets required …
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housing demand. In the absence of significant interventions from the public sector, the private sector has become responsible …. Future plans for post-disaster reconstruction of housing in Dhaka must address issues of growing demand, limitations of risk …-free land for development, ownership of land and housing, and limitations of resources.  …
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It is a well-known fact that global warming is the extraordinary threat facing the world. The main reasons of these are human activities. Human beings have been contributing to the global warming in different ways for many years. Right material and product selection are some of the most...
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has shifted its approach to housing development from the provision of housing to a sustainable human settlements approach …
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health sector. Housing care and other non-medical support is continuing to lag behind. Lack of proper housing is one of the …. This paper focuses on creating an understanding of why housing care and support for HIV and AIDS affected is lagging behind … reforms, the paper reviews the following: 1. The national housing policy's implications on the care and support for people …
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