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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"housing environment"”.
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Public housing renovation : an opportunity for a better housing environment
… is that the current renovation program of public housing projects is based on a predominantly physical perspective. Understanding the administrative and implementation aspects of the public housing system, the neighborhood context of the projects, the program's social context, and can make the …
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On growth and development: Housing environment impacts on children's development and its relevance in interior design solutions
<p>The role of housing quality and housing location in children’s development are of great importance, as these issues may affect their outcomes later in life. Housing and neighborhood conditions include but are not limited to housing costs, residential layout, and neighborhood surroundings. These …
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Post occupancy evaluation of five story walk up dwellings : the case of four mass housing estates in Algiers.
Because of the acute shortage of housing in Algeria, resulting from a high birth rate and the migration of the rural population to the cities, large mass housing programmes have been launched since the late 1970s, providing the urban population with dwellings and housing facilities just outside the …
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Conserving housing form : growth potential of a low density residential neighborhood
… the continued use or reuse of the existing housing stock. the process of increasing unit density in an existing tissue will be called consolidation. Several types and scales of consolidation are projected into a "suburban" block located in Newton, MA, for quantitative and qualitative …
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A pilot study on the effects of sow management practices on piglet immune responsiveness to weaning stress
… of this thesis was to assess the effects of sow housing environment, social stress, and dietary fiber treatments during gestation on the immune and stress responsiveness of their progeny to weaning stress. Piglets were obtained from a larger-scale study of a 180 group-housed gestating sows. …
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Modeling Resident Satisfaction: Comparison of the Francescato and Fishbein-Ajzen TRA Models
A military on-post family housing site is selected as a setting for this study. Since this dissertation is the first study applying the TRA to housing satisfaction studies, it reveals many limitations with a typical housing setting. This study draws statistical and practical superiority of the …
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Resident housing satisfaction in multifamily housing environments in Korea
Housing environments are important in understanding man's relationship to the built environment, since they represent the most fundamental place for living. Residents' housing satisfaction, as a theoretical construct, has been an important criterion in evaluating the performance of not only the …
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The Development of a framework for sustainable housing delivery in Lagos, Nigeria
There is an estimated 16 million housing units shortfall in Nigeria and the government cannot meet the housing needs of Nigerians because of budgetary constraints and other competing needs. It is important to note that the leaders have failed on numerous occasions to tackle the key challenges …
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Examining Community Integration Among Persons With Serious Mental Illnesses Residing In Supported Housing Via the Capabilities Approach
… illnesses (SMI), particularly in supported housing environments. Community integration has been conceptualized as comprising of three dimensions: physical integration, social integration and psychological integration. Drawing from the capabilities approach for integration as proposed by Ware …
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Incremental support structures for housing and urbanisation
… proposal challenges the current approach to housing delivery and the upgrading of informal settlements in urban areas of South Africa. It is positioned within a complex informal housing environment with poor basic infrastructure and high exposure to the risk of fire and flooding in winter. …
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The implications of US senior housing to China
… in those not-for-profit, non-government senior housing centers. This is 0.14% of total population of 144 million people aged over 60 in 2005. If 3% of seniors may choose to live in a senior housing environment, it will create an investment market of RMB90 billion to RMB100 billion. However, in …
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Urban stairs
… high-rising development impaired single family housing environment and drastically changed existing urban landscape and structure. Instead of pursuing coexistence and sharing, it chose to delete all the historical accumulation over time and to be inserted like an urban island in the city. The …
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Factors facilitating pest infestation in two low-income urban areas of Cape Town, South Africa : an urban health observation study
… of qualitative data that examined factors in housing, environment and practices and pest control behaviours of poor urban residents that facilitate pest infestation is presented in this mini-dissertation. The protocol (Part A) describes the study population and the methods used to collect and …
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The Housing Conditions of Township Neighbourhoods: Assessing Housing Performance in Langa, Cape Town
The shortage in the provision of housing is one of the most urgent needs facing the majority of South Africans. The provision of proper housing has shown the stark difference in equality within the postApartheid housing landscape of South Africa. Much of the Apartheid regime had led to racial …
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Mothers' perceptions of housing space : an analysis of 3 married student housing sites: Eastgate, Westgate and Peabody Terrace
What is a good housing environment for nurturing, a place where the physical environment reinforces the lives of both parents and child? This thesis looks at three married student housing sites in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in relation to these qualities, focussing on parents with children under …
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The Significance of Spaciousness: an investigation of spaciousness in the context of the residential yard
… to the present densification of the urban environment in many towns and cities. Research on densification is primarily concerned with the link between urban form and sustainable development. The point of departure of this thesis is to consider what a denser housing environment will mean to …
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Does low-income homeownership work? The effects of titling among beneficiaries in Cape Town and Lusaka
… the subsidized construction of privately-titled housing for poor people in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, and the private titling of public rental housing in Matero, Lusaka. It examines nine hypotheses drawn from theories about the effects of property rights but goes beyond to strengthen this literature …
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Effect of alternative, individual and group housing systems, and management factors in group pens on the well-being of gestating sows
… for human consumption are being housed in modern housing systems has resulted in the passing of referendum that ban gestation stalls for sows, crates for veal calves, and battery cages for laying hens. Currently no scientific information support the current notion that these housing systems …
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An Investigation of Environmental Factors that Affect the Behavior and Welfare of Domestic Cats (Felis sylvestris catus)
… each year, so offering the most appropriate housing environment could lead to improvements to their welfare and possibly in the outcomes of biomedical research, shelter adoptions and veterinary care for cats. Most research on the welfare of confined cats has been aimed at modifications to …
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Analisis keterlibatan konsumen dalam pembelian rumah di Perumahan Araya Malang
… and to know the reasons consumers buy homes in housing Araya-Malang. This study uses survey method with descriptive explanation and analysis of the level and type of quantitative data. Researchers involved 126 respondents. Data collection using questionnaires, data analysis technique used is …
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