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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"council housing"”.
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Council housing sales in Great Britain : marginalization or cooptation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Conceptualising need and the allocation of council housing: A study of housing need
… to guide the allocation of resources. In the housing arena, local authorities are increasingly expected to assess housing needs as a preliminary step towards ensuring their satisfaction. Problems relating to the quantity, quality, suitability and affordability of housing have ensured a …
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Approaches to council housing management: a study of 'best value' implementation in two London boroughs
… into the implementation of Best Value in council housing. Best value is a nationally determined framework specifying the process which local authorities must use to review and improve the full range of their activities with regard to performance, quality, accountability and cost. The aim …
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Ernesettle Everyday life in ‘a lovely estate’:post-war council housing and cultural incorporation 1950-1980
… through an enormous expansion in public housing. Ernesettle is a product of this boom. One of seven new estates constructed as part of Plymouth’s programme of reconstruction, it follows a conceptual blueprint laid out in The Plan for Plymouth, a document compiled in 1943 by town planner …
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Reconfiguring housing governance in Glasgow post-stock transfer: regulatory and liberatory possibilities
The 2003 Glasgow housing stock transfer was underpinned by the political rationale of community ownership: an ideal that aspired to empower citizens by devolving both ownership and control of council housing from the state to local communities. This ambition was to be achieved through a two-tier …
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Towards a Deregulated Domesticity: The Making of 'Homes for Today and Tomorrow'
… recommendations for both public and private housing provision and it was the last one issued by the government as, the report specifically and space standards generally, were abolished by the Conservative government as an “obstacle to development” along with the privatisation of council …
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Digital timber for affordable housing: An exploration into flexible spaces
… and flexibility, envisioning a future where housing is designed as an unfinished product where residents can develop the spaces they inhabit, and these can be altered throughout a lifetime. The research proposes the apartment as an empty space with fixed services based on the open building. …
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The perception of elderly respondents to the interior features of sheltered housing
… of elderly people’s perceptions toward sheltered housing design. The principal aims are to examine and apply multi-methodologies to improve the effectiveness of data gathered from elderly respondents and to understand their perceptions of the interior environments they inhabit. Moreover, the …
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Tenure in transition : case of the LSM Cooperative Housing Estate, Lublin, Poland
… agendas of the actors in the LSM Cooperative Housing Estate in Lublin, Poland, has resulted in conflicts in tenure claims to land and building. The tenure options that evolve from these conflicts are in effect choices that open up for the community. This thesis recognizes the fact that there …
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Exploring Architectural Implications on Social Sustainability: The case of extended family dwellings in contemporary Bahraini households
… impact on living standards, particularly housing, for a majority of the Gulf region residents. The constantly shifting and transforming social and political climate created significant pressures on the welfare mechanism, which then placed citizens on twenty-years-long waiting lists for …