Download or read book Living Downtown written by Paul E. Groth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.
Download or read book Residential Housing and Interior Design written by Clois E. Kicklighter and published by Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Reviews the basic building materials and structural components of a home in an easy-to-understand manner. - Discusses the principles of good design.
Download or read book Housing by Lifestyle written by James W. Wentling and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised, paperback edition of a popular & successful McGraw-Hill book on housing design will reflect the subtle & dramatic changes that have affected the housing industry between the affluent 1980's. New case studies from the author, an architect with a growing reputation for quality housing design, will show the evolving demands coming from ever more diverse clients-from single-parent households to work-at-home professionals to people living with elderly parents at home. Improved graphics & photographs will help better illustrate some of today's more innovative solutions to kitchen design, family "home theater" rooms, basement workshops, & much more.
Download or read book A Survey of Homeowner Experience with New Residential Housing Construction written by Richard Lawrence Kaluzny and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Census of Residential Housing 1990 Residential Finance written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 975 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing Washington written by Richard W. Longstreth and published by Center for American Places. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington has harbored numerous private-sector initiatives to develop model housing projects, and it has also been a proving ground for federal policies crafted to improve living conditions for households of middle and moderate income. In addition, the large, middle-class African American population has left a distinct imprint on the metropolitan area’s domestic landscape, developing its own options for housing in city and suburb alike. Profusely illustrated, with thirteen chapters by fourteen esteemed authors, Housing Washington examines the storied legacy of residential development in our nation’s capital, from the early nineteenth century to the present. By focusing on a wide variety of mainstream patterns and interweaving the threads of convention and change as well as those of race and class, this book offers a fresh perspective on metropolitan dwelling places and breaks new ground in urban studies and architectural and planning history.
Download or read book Brave New Home written by Diana Lind and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better. Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s. In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.
Download or read book Missing Middle Housing written by Daniel G. Parolek and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.
Download or read book Density is Home written by Aurora Fernández Per and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conté: Aires Mateus : Housing for the Elderly, Alcácer do Sal ; Alberola, Díaz-Mauriño, Martorell : Vara de Rey, Madrid ; Arch. Workshop : Klarheit, Tokyo ; B612: Dolez, Brussels ; Batlle i Roig : Vilamarina Housing and Shopping Centre, Viladecans ; BIG : 8 House, Copenhagen ; Bogdan & Van Broeck/VBM : The Maltery, Leuven ; Brendeland & Kristoffersen : Svalbard Housing, Longyearbyen ; Chiba Manabu : Stitch, Tokyo ; Colomès Nomdedeu : Student Housing, Troyes ; Diener & Diener/MCBAD/Paillard : Zac Seguin Housing, Boulogne Billancourt ; Druot, Lacaton & Vassal : Tour Bois le Pretre, Paris ; Edouard François : Coming Out, Grenoble ; EE/ECDM/MG/PG/MVRDV : Le Monolithe, Lyon ; EM2N : Rosenberg Conversion, Winterthur ; Guidotti : Rosa Housing, Monte Carasso ; Hamonic + Masson : Docks Dombasles, Le Havre ; Jordi Garcés : Non-Conventional Housing, Barcelona ; Kempe Thill : Atriumtower Hiphouse, Zwolle ; Kempe Thill : Urban Renewal Europarei, Uithoorn ; Lion, Lapierre, Gap, Berim : Square des Sports, Gonesse ; Marlies Rohmer : Neighbourhood Factory, Amsterdam ; MGM : Monte Hacho Housing, Ceuta ; Moriko Kira : IJburg Block 65b, Amsterdam ; Moussafir/Katz/Tachon : Emile Chaîne Area Regeneration, Paris ; Nicolas Michelin : Grand Large-Neptune, Dunkirk ; Pampols : 19 Youth Housing, Lleida ; Rueda Pizarro : 64 social Housing Units, Madrid ; S333 : Arch Street, London ; S333: Block 3, Tarling East, London ; Serrat, Egea, García : Can Travi Elderly Housing, Barcelona ; TOA : Housing, Sports Hall and Community Gardens, Paris ; VA Studio : MD housing, Vila Nova de Gaia ; Victor López Cotelo : Caramoniña Housing, Santiago de Compostela ; Wiel Arets : 4 Towers Osdorp, Amsterdam ; X-TU : Duploye Housing, Paris ; ZigZag : Vivazz, Mieres.
Download or read book Small Houses written by Nicolas Pople and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small houses are no longer synonymous with cheap houses and lack of privilege. Instead, they symbolize a range of culturally coded values: compactness, efficiency, discrimination, discreteness, minimalism. Opening with a detailed exploration of the social and historical background behind compact housing in the twentieth century, this book goes on to feature 37 illustrated case studies that represent some of the best examples of small houses built worldwide within the past decade. Plan areas range from 7 to 150 square metres (75 to 1615 square feet) and each project embodies a particular design approach towards compact accommodation. The case studies are organized into three chapters - Rural Retreats; Urban and Suburban Bases; and Small Clusters and Multiples - and include work by such architects as Toyo Ito, Lacaton & Vassal, LOT/EK and Kazuyo Sejima.
Download or read book In Defense of Housing written by Peter Marcuse and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.
Download or read book Hybrid Housing written by Sherry Ahrentzen and published by University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. This book was released on 1991 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time Saver Standards for Housing and Residential Development written by Joseph DeChiara and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of Time-saver Standards for Residential Development (1984). A hefty volume which comprises a master file of data on design standards and criteria that lead to livable environments. Coverage includes neighborhood organization, site considerations, subdivisions and land planning, community facilities, elements of the dwelling unit, types of single-family houses, and of apartments and apartment buildings, mobile homes and parks, rehabilitation and historic preservation, and safety and security. Abundantly illustrated with drawings and plans. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Housing for Humans written by ileana schinder and published by Panoma Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book navigates the design process of new housing, like additional dwelling units, and explores ideas that can be implemented from the suburbs to cities. Through the history of urban design, zoning regulation, and with an emphasis on the human side of housing, this architect highlights the role that the home plays in society today.
Download or read book Residential Real Estate written by Anupam Nanda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential Real Estate introduces readers to the economic fundamentals and emerging issues in housing markets. The book investigates housing market issues within local, regional, national and international contexts in order to provide students with an understanding of the economic principles that underpin residential property markets. Key topics covered include: Location choice in urban areas Housing supply and demand Housing finance and housing as an asset class Demographic shifts and implications for housing Sustainable homes and digitalisation in housing Drawing on market-level information, readers are encouraged to recognise the supply and demand drivers and modelling of dynamic housing markets at various spatial scales and the implications of trends within an urban and regional context, e.g. urbanisation, ageing population, migration, digitalisation. With research-based discussions and coverage of relevant literature, this is an ideal textbook for students of residential real estate, property and related business studies courses at UG and PG levels, as well as a reference book with research topics for researchers. This book will also be of interest to professionals and policymakers.
Download or read book Choosing Homes Choosing Schools written by Annette Lareau and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide where to send their children to school. In theory, the boom in standardized test scores and charter schools will allow parents to evaluate their assigned neighborhood school, or move in search of a better option. But what kind of data do parents actually use while choosing schools? Are there differences among suburban and urban families? How do parents’ choices influence school and residential segregation in America? Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools presents a breakthrough analysis of the new era of school choice, and what it portends for American neighborhoods. The distinguished contributors to Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools investigate the complex relationship between education, neighborhood social networks, and larger patterns of inequality. Paul Jargowsky reviews recent trends in segregation by race and class. His analysis shows that segregation between blacks and whites has declined since 1970, but remains extremely high. Moreover, white families with children are less likely than childless whites to live in neighborhoods with more minority residents. In her chapter, Annette Lareau draws on interviews with parents in three suburban neighborhoods to analyze school-choice decisions. Surprisingly, she finds that middle- and upper-class parents do not rely on active research, such as school tours or test scores. Instead, most simply trust advice from friends and other people in their network. Their decision-making process was largely informal and passive. Eliot Weinginer complements this research when he draws from his data on urban parents. He finds that these families worry endlessly about the selection of a school, and that parents of all backgrounds actively consider alternatives, including charter schools. Middle- and upper-class parents relied more on federally mandated report cards, district websites, and online forums, while working-class parents use network contacts to gain information on school quality. Little previous research has explored what role school concerns play in the preferences of white and minority parents for particular neighborhoods. Featuring innovative work from more than a dozen scholars, Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools adroitly addresses this gap and provides a firmer understanding of how Americans choose where to live and send their children to school.
Download or read book Appraising Residential Properties written by Appraisal Institute (U.S.) and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive handbook on residential valuation which includes coverage of recently revised professional standards, descriptions of current reporting formats, current definitions for industry-specific terms, and more.
