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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"incremental housing"”.
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Incremental housing at the receding suburban fringe
… that shook the basic assumptions underlying housing delivery in the United States of America. First, Hurricane Katrina and the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans that followed brought into stark focus the folly of decades of short-sighted land use policy and housing development that largely …
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Analysis of the land administration and housing management systems in view of adequate self-built incremental housing development in Lesotho
… post-reform Land Administration System (LAS) and Housing Management System (HMS) in view of supporting and promoting adequate housing delivery through Self-built Incremental Housing (SBIH) development. SBIH is key to Lesotho's realisation of the Africa Agenda 2063, Sustainable Development Goals …
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An exploration of incremental architecture as an affordable development typology
Incremental approaches to housing construction have long been a typology used around the world. In the context of my work, I define incremental housing as a construction methodology that provides dwellers with the essential elements of a house, allowing the resident to rearrange the fundamental …
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Iraq's housing crisis : upgrading settlements for IDPS (internally displaced persons)
… Many settlements have exhibited user-initiated incremental housing processes. The topic of this thesis is upgrading settlements for IDPs in Baghdad, Iraq through user-initiated methods. Baghdad is facing an overwhelming amount of sub-standard IDP settlements, and while some settlements are …
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From policy to practice: examining the impact and implementation of the rapid land release program in addressing South Africa's housing backlog
… designed to address South Africa's persistent housing backlog. The RLRP, rooted in the principles of incremental housing, aims to provide serviced land to beneficiaries for self-construction, reflecting a shift from traditional, fully built housing approaches. This study evaluates the program's …
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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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Shaky structures on solid foundation : the impact of low-income state-subsidised housing on the realisation of the right to adequate housing in post-apartheid South Africa
… examines the impact of state-subsidised housing on the realisation of the right to adequate housing in South Africa. The incremental housing policy adopted in 1994 has its roots in the work of the Urban Foundation and others, who significantly shaped the discussions in the National …
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"Young Town" growing up : four decades later : self-help housing and upgrading lessons from a squatter neighborhood in Lima
This thesis examines self-help housing policies in Peru by revisiting Independencia, one of Lima's young towns (squatter settlements), forty-five years after its founding. The study was designed to better understand how Independencia's low and moderate income families have been able to access and …
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Architecture After Forced Migration
… transformation with cohesive public spaces and incremental housing prototypes is proposed in this thesis. Through the study of architectural responses to natural disaster, refugee camps and slums design considerations related to the site, the culture and the urban context are established as …
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Deleveraging domesticity : incremental design forays on middle income housing
Housing today has little do with architecture. Design is a currency of services, while housing today is intensively packaged as a consumer good. It is packaged with land as speculative real-estate, and bundled abstractly into mortgage-backed securities for trade in global investment markets. Both …
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From Shelter to Home: Flexibility in Post-Disaster Accommodation
One of the most critical issues in housing families after a disaster is the gap between shortterm needs (emergency or temporary shelter) and long-term needs (permanent housing). In most cases, the process of achieving permanent accommodation takes years for various reasons, such as the removal of …