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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Housing Units"”.
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Low cost industrial housing units in India
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1943
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Optimizing the sustainability of single-family housing units
The sustainability of housing units can be improved by optimizing their social, environmental, and economic performances. The integration of green building equipment and systems such as geothermal heat pumps and water-efficient faucets often improves the social and environmental performances of …
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The Design of Post-Disaster Housing Units For The East Boston Community
… damage. FEMA provides temporary post-disaster housing in the form of Manufactured Housing Units (MHUs), often prefabricated off-site and transported to the post-disaster location in need. While these units provide to families basic living necessities for up to 18 months, they can rarely satisfy …
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Predicting Staff Sexual Misconduct In Female Housing Units: Individual Versus Social Climate Factors
… women prisoners from 15 facilities and 80 housing units rated the kinds of inmate and staff problems they felt existed in their housing units, including staff sexual misconduct. Due to the data being nested in housing units, we utilized multilevel regression analyses that regressed staff …
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Standardized structural design for post-disaster modular housing units under clustered environmental loads
… current shortcomings in the post-disaster housing response from a structural engineering perspective, proposing a new methodology to approach a multi-design standardized solution. Known environmental loading taken from building codes is analyzed over the entire United States to create a …
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Predicting Inmate Economic Conflict In Female Housing Units: Individual Factors Versus Social Climate Factors
… for the development of this conflict in female housing facilities. The secondary data analysis study is based on validated survey data from 3499 female inmates housed in fifteen correctional facilities located in seven different states. In addition to conducting descriptive statistical analyses, …
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A housing system: study of modular-box housing units applied to pull-up system.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1973. M.Arch.A.S.
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Land Cover Change Analysis of the Mississippi Gulf Coast from 1975 to 2005 using Landsat MSS and TM Imagery
The population, employment and housing units along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi have been increasing since the 1970s through the 2000s. In this study, an overall increasing trend in land cover was found in developed land area near interstates and highways along all three coastal counties. A strong …
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Dynamic incentives for pro-social cities : an application to affordable housing
… characteristics. In particular, the issue of housing affordability has attracted the attention of many urban decision-makers, as housing plays an important role in urban resilience and social equity, and the rising housing prices in cities has created persistent social and economic pressure. A …
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Bamboo: An Alternative Building Material for Urban Ethiopia
… as an alternative building material for low cost housing units suitable for urban Ethiopia. The rational for the application of bamboo comes from its abundance throughout the country, and its proven physical properties that equate it to other building material like timber, steel and concrete. The …
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Geographic Factors of Residential Burglaries - A Case Study in Nashville, Tennessee
… as Percentages of Minorities, Singles, Vacant Housing Units, Renter Occupied Housing Units, and Persons below Poverty Line. The findings indicate that residential burglaries exhibit clustered patterns by forming various hotspots around the study area, especially in the central city and over …
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The potential carbon dioxide emissions reduction when energy service interventions are applied to the current subsidised housing demand
This dissertation examines the role of subsidised housing in reducing carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in South Africa. Climate change is an occurring event and is largely caused by human activities, such as the production of energy from fossil fuels (NRC, 2010). Buildings are seen as one of the …
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The Washington D.C. 2020 - 2025 Housing Initiative : reviewing the incentives and barriers to real estate developers' creation of affordable housing
… of Columbia in 2019, unveiled a 2020 - 2050 Housing Production Goal popularly tagged "#36000by2025". The Initiative details Washington DC's goal to develop 36,000 new housing units in partnership with developers in the city, including 12,000 affordable housing units between the years 2020 and …
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A building system: an alternative to the urban sprawl in contemporary metropolitan San Juan
… that will be applicable to the typical existing housing units in San Juan, P. R. The system will respond to criteria based on environmental, socio-cultural and architectural concerns.
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Optimizing the privatization of military family housing
… thesis optimizes the privatization of military housing in the Monterey Bay area. We developed two spreadsheet models of the Monterey Bay Military Housing (MBMH) project to revitalize over 2200 military family housing units. We used these models to evaluate several proposed privatization …
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A promoção imobiliária e as vias arteriais: um estudo sobre correlação espacial em Natal/RN
… possible spatial correlations between vertical housing production, in the period from 1990 to 2018, and arterial roads in the city of Natal. For this, an extensive database was used, and, through the QGIS® software, aspects of the spatial distribution of the projects were defined, emphasizing …
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HOUSING ACCESSIBILITY: THE ROLE AND PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPERS IN PHILADELPHIA
… Philadelphia view their responsibility to build housing units that are accessible to people living with disabilities. It relies on data collected by interviewing major developers who build several different types of housing, including high-end condominiums, university residential housing, …
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Analysis of Soil Lead Levels in an Historic District of a South Central Kentucky City
… in children. Several factors including age of housing units, exterior composition, and paint loading may affect the amount of lead present in the soil. The purpose of this study was to analyze soil lead levels on properties located in an historic district and relate those levels to the …
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Influences of watershed urban development on habitat heterogeneity and native fish diversity in a ridge and valley stream in Southeastern Tennessee
… residential) ranged from 1.62 % to 18.97 % and housing density from 49 housing units/km2 to 72 housing units/km2. Natural riparian land cover at the sites ranged from 26.9 % to 53.1 %. A total of22 species offish and 3,686 individuals was found at the seven sites. Native species richness per …
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Creating an asset management model for Massachusetts state-aided public housing : a study of policies and practices to inform the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
Local housing authorities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts currently manage over 50,000 state-aided public housing units on a consolidated, authority-wide level-a style of property management that does not allow for the detailed monitoring or assessment of each property within a local housing …
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