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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"housing unit"”.
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Public acceptance and user satisfaction of a prototypic housing unit in Blacksburg, Virginia
The Hillside Fourplex, a structurally innovative housing unit which won a HUD competition “Building Value Into Housing”, was conducted in Blacksburg, VA, in 1982. The purpose of this study was to evaluate public acceptance of the unit as evidenced at open house sessions, to evaluate user …
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Determinants of the spatial dynamics of housing prices in Chengdu, China, 2005-2010
Housing unit prices differ among 75 street blocks per time period in Chengdu, China. Housing unit price's appreciation also moves differently in the 75 street blocks between 2005 and 2010. With solid transaction data acquired from Chengdu Housing Administration Department, two regression models, …
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The central city : why the comeback?
… performance (specified as relative population, housing unit and property value growth) and various independent variables for a representative sample of seventy three metropolitan areas. The study period includes data from 2000 to 2004. The twenty eight independent variables can be categorized …
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Large Language Models and Quantifying the Regulatory Expenses of Affordable Housing: A Thorough Examination Utilizing Generative Assessment
… Model-based methods to extract and quantify housing regulations from municipal zoning codes, making possible the most comprehensive examination of regulatory costs at the municipal level across California to date. A multi-staged extraction framework is devised that delivers 85-95% accuracy in …
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Computerised scheduling and control of residential housing projects
… model for scheduling and control of residential housing projects. The model is designed using an Object-Oriented modeling approach and incorporates 18 classes that are designed to facilitate the scheduling and control of residential housing projects. The model also includes two newly developed …
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Observing the Sedimentation of TiO2 Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution Using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring
… simple VNA and an in house made crystal resonant housing unit allowed us to achieve our goals.
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Shared-space housing: Theoretical background for the potential cost savings associated with the shared consumption of housing
… does exist and show how it can be applied to the housing market. Empirical research will focus on determining whether or not there are savings to be realized by moving toward the shared end of the continuum. This research will be accomplished by developing (on paper) a parcel as a single-family …
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The sites and services approach: a partial solution to South Africa's urban housing shortage
… Africa a severe shortage of urban low-income housing. This thesis evaluates the sites and services approach as a means to reduce the housing shortage. The limited success of the new democratic government's efforts to provide the urban poor with formal low-income housing suggests that sites and …
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Impacts of sustainable streets on housing prices: a hedonic analysis in Chicago
… costs of sustainable streets, this study uses housing transaction data in Chicago to examine the impact of those projects on the sale prices of nearby residential properties. Specifically, I would like to explore the following questions: First, is the sale price of a housing unit affected by …
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Three essays on housing: Housing rent and occupational rank in Beijing and Shenyang, China. Rent controls, housing subsidies and privatization: An international perspective. The urban housing reform in China
Chapter I. Housing rent and occupational rank in Bejjing and Shenyang, China. Under the planned economic system in China, the occupational rank of housing renters has a major effect on the household's rent. The government provides differential housing subsidies to different types of renters of …
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Modernizing the passing joint : a standardized building system to facilitate contemporary bamboo housing construction in regions of economic constraint
… of economic constraint in greatest need of housing structures. Can we design a light-frame construction system that allows for the non-standard nature of bamboo members and is inspired by the unique properties of the material? Can we reveal its contemporary uses and therefore allow for its …
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Precarious luxury
… and incentives to integrate low income units into luxury residential developments, this thesis seeks to integrate two allergic constituencies within a single typology type: housing. Among these two parties, varying requirements are necessary, yet within present culture, there is evidence …
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South Boston ex-urban : a new living paradigm for harbor revitalization
… fresh air, the view, and private garden to every housing unit. A single family house symbolizes a success of personal life; however, it compromises urban public space and usually is exclusive to social activities in a shared economic era. This thesis project addresses the issue of livability as …
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Rebuilding Coastal Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis
… little understanding of what actually affects a housing unit or community's ability to recover from a disaster or what determines the rate of recovery in time. This study uses building permits issued in the three coastal counties of Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina to track recovery of the …
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Houses in Heaven are made of steel : understanding change in Ecuadorian amazon Secoya structures
… types, including the Jaihub'e or communitarian longhouse. The thesis focuses on understanding the forces that have influenced the Secoya decision to adopt the Zinc House type, a metallic-roofed individual housing unit. These include change in their economic systems, depletion of the …
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Contingent [re]occupations : residual urban morphologies
… Bay. Using the vehicle of typology as a basis, unit alteration and reprogramming are explored as urban systems. The design implications of introducing these altered forms of domestic morphology into existing urban housing environments are the basis of this thesis. Titled by this proposal as …
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Energy-efficient housing alternatives: a predictive model of factors affecting household perceptions
… attitude on the perceptions of energy-efficient housing alternatives. Perceptions of passive solar, active solar, earth- sheltered, and retrofitted housing were examined. Data used were from the Southern Regional Research Project, S-141, "Housing for Low and Moderate Income Families." Responses …
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Three essays in Japanese housing market
… In Japan, more than one million condominium units remain unable to satisfy earthquake-resistance regulations, while only 211 condominiums had been rebuilt by April 2015. This paper provides empirical evidence (by examining the price differential, as controlling for rent, between condominiums …
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Incorporating environmental elements in property marketing strategy in Kuala Lumpur
… in the cities, and many developers supply the housing unit through condominium complex to fulfil the requirement of accommodation. Every day the number of condominium is increasing in Kuala Lumpur city. The natural green environment is decreasing with destructive impact on physical, mental …
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Forecasting housing demand in Terengganu using multinomial logit
Housing demand is defined as the number of homes needed as residence per household. There are 3 types of housing developed in Terengganu which are low medium cost housing, medium cost housing and high cost housing. According to the NAPIC, during the 2nd quarter of 2016, Terengganu recorded the …
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