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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Refugee housing"”.
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Refugee housing for Hong Kong
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1962.
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Refugee housing in the United States: improving the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market
… between the US Reception & Placement (USRAP) refugee resettlement program and the health of the US’s refugee-welcoming rental market (RWRM). I focus on USRAP because it plays a unique and vital role in the international protection system for refugees and because the Biden Administration …
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Land use planning innovations in the midst of a 'Migration Crisis' : developing a spatial definition of refugee integration
… to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' 2016 Global Trends Report, global human displacement is at a record high and refugee crises are increasingly urban. Research on forced migration has historically focused on the obligations of the nation state, overshadowing the role of …
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Juha the Whale
… fiction film that explores the isolation a refugee mother and her young daughter face as they await the status of their claimant hearing in Toronto, Canada. Najah (45) and her daughter Noor (8), spend the days leading up to their hearing in cramped refugee housing, awaiting the verdict, …
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How long-term housing demand is being addressed in refugee resettlement
Refugees are individuals who have fled their home country due to a well-founded fear of persecution and are resettled in a new country. The United States provides all refugee with social services, including assistance in applying for food and cash assistance, understanding public transportation, …
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CityScope: An Urban modeling and Simulation Platform
… platform. From collaborative allocation of refugee-housing in Germany, through crowd-sourced mapping of public safety in Guadalajara, to mass-transit co-creation in Boston, CityScope helps to build agency amongst the ‘have-nots’, who traditionally were denied from the urban process. I report …
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Understanding urban housing transformations : a case study of Bhogal, India
… through its transformation. The project is a refugee housing program, undertaken by the Government of India in the early 1950's to cope with the large influx of refugees during the partition between India and Pakistan. Over a period of twenty years, the project like other emergency measures , …
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Exploring commoning as a tool for social integration: Re-use of abandoned buildings and plots for the creation of commons in the Greek context
… fleeing countries facing political turmoil. Refugees in Greece have been admitted to state run camps, segregated and excluded from social life and have been denied their basic human rights. In the meantime the Greek socioeconomic crisis since 2008 has led to high unemployment rates, the …
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Refugee Community Organisations working in partnership: The quest for recognition
… grassroots resolution to the problem of refugee housing, settlement and integration, at a time when large numbers of people were arriving seeking asylum in the UK. Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs) were engaged by the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (hact) to work alongside …
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Elemental shelters for nomads
… -R Buckminster Fuller. Last year, as millions of refugees flowed out of Syria fleeing the civil war, the UN Refugee Agency reached out to the Swedish furniture designer Ikea to develop a shelter for refugees called "The Refugee Housing Unit" (RHU). The stated needs for the shelter were structural …
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Arriving through Infrastructures: Berlin's institutional shelters for refugees 2015-2019
During the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 German chancellor Angela Merkel made the historic decision to welcome over one million refugees into the country. Throughout Germany municipal governments created a diverse range of temporary accommodations to house the arrivals, most notably in cities …