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Single-family detached home
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Frihet, sikkerhet, forstaden: Brev fra Amerika
Why have countries formerly leading public policies of housing – Norway, the U.K., France, etc. – shifted towards privatizing accommodation from the late 1970s? Have these States merely let go of housing and handed it over to private interests in the name ...
2024Bed for One: A Queer Interpretation of the Rooming House
Understanding the historical and overlapping complexities related to the queer subject, the single bed, and the emergence of the rooming house, helps frame larger theoretical questions about the neglected, yet contradicting by nature, category of queer dom ...
2023From State-led to Aided Self-help: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey
This paper aims to analyze the transnational discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the aided self-help model by the introduction of the ...
2022Towards sustainability through housing functions: a systems perspective for the study of Swiss tenants' residential mobility
Problem. Housing is a major contributor to Switzerland's carbon footprint and energy consumption, but it is also a basic need. Research on climate change mitigation strategies has so far paid insufficient attention to households' preferences and their cont ...
EPFL2022How the Labour Self-Build: Marshall Plan and Workers’ Housing Cooperatives in Turkey
This presentation aims to discuss the transnational activity and discourse behind the programmatic shift in spatial production and layout of workers’ housing in Turkey from the state-financed model of the interwar period to the assisted self-help model by ...
2021Obstacles and opportunities for reducing dwelling size to shrink the environmental footprint of housing: Tenants' residential preferences and housing choice
Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Claudine Bettina Karlen
The environmental footprint of housing is greatly influenced by the size of a dwelling. Housing size is the result of households' dwelling selections; accordingly, it is critical to consider residential preferences and choices to inform efforts towards hou ...
SPRINGER2021Modelling historical masonry aggregates using the Equivalent Frame approach
Katrin Beyer, Francesco Vanin, Igor Tomic
Many historical centres in Europe, including the city centre of Zagreb, feature masonry building aggregates, which developed as the building layout of the city was densified. Adjacent buildings in aggregates often share a structural wall and the building t ...
2021Towards sustainable housing in Switzerland: housing size as a link between tenants' residential decisions and environmental impact
Housing size is a key variable in determining the environmental footprint of residential buildings. Besides the environmental aspect, housing size is the result of residential decisions made by households, which are influenced by the interplay of factors o ...
2020Energy transition challenges in under-occupied homes: Assessment of two peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses
Current planning policies aim at putting a stop to urban sprawl by favouring densification processes. In this context, future developments are more likely to happen in strategic urban areas than in existing peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses ...
2020Towards sustainable transitions of peri-urban neighborhoods of detached houses
Peri-urban neighborhoods of detached houses are facing countless challenges related to the building stock’s low energy efficiency, to the current demographic transition reducing household size and increasing the proportion of elderlies, to their distant lo ...
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