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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"rural housing"”.
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Ibo rural housing and planning
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1956.
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A MICRO-LEVEL VIEW OF LOW-INCOME RURAL HOUSING IN BANGLADESH
… of the population of the developing world is rural, compared to urban housing there is less emphasis on rural housing in current literature. Bangladesh is a case in point, with its nearly 80% rural population with a low-income majority. Various agencies there attempt to address rural housing …
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Public acceptance of alternative building technologies for rural housing development in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
… ensuring that everyone enjoysa right to adequate housing, social security and appropriate assistance. Since 1994, South African governments have created about two million housing opportunities, mainly benefitting the urban-based poor. In the process, rural housing was not sufficiently addressed …
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The impact of political corruption on service delivery in South Africa: a review of the Mpumalanga Rural Housing Project
… in government institutions. The Mpumalanga Rural Housing Project was solely chosen as a case study primarily because it presented an excellent polemical context of illustration for some of the arguments raised in this study. Most importantly the Mpumalanga Rural Housing Project is used in …
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Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish countryside
… debate on living in the countryside. The Irish rural housing debate is an illustration of wider rural change in a country with a strong tradition of farming on small to medium sized holdings, each owner-occupied. In addition, the media popularisation of the debate, rather than establishing the …
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The resale of local authority dwellings in rural England: a case study of South Northamptonshire
Patterns and processes of migration and housing market restructuring in the English countryside have attracted considerable attention over recent years. In contrast to many earlier studies which have failed to examine the way in which these processes are interrelated, this research focuses upon the …
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Aspects of the built environment of rural south west Lancashire, c.1880 - 1914
The traditional orthodoxy concerning the homes of rural workers in the nineteenth century is that they were of poor construction, badly maintained and with few amenities which could be described as domestic comforts. A sense of social and economic neglect of the rural labourer pervades the …
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A Model Institute: The Mansouria Agricultural Learning Laboratory and Community Center
Inadequate rural housing, poor sanitation, resource scarcity, lack of adequate income and a general substandard level of living, forces a mass migration from rural areas into overtaxed urban centers in Egypt. Unable to sustain their families on increasingly smaller and less productive agricultural …
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Economic Benefits of Agricultural Conservation
… We estimate the economic benefits of EQIP in the rural housing markets of the US. The results suggest that the implementation of agricultural conservation projects increases local housing prices and that the improvement in environmental amenities is mostly capitalized by houses located within 25 …
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The alignment of a manner of architectural practice and its architecture: rural houses in the north of Ireland by McGonigle McGrath architects
… construction and interiority, responses to found rural features, and certain compositional and representational characteristics shared within modern painting and photography.<br/><br/>The research also articulates a manner of practice - patterns of behaviour within a particular social and …
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An Investigation of Climatically Responsive Ultra-Low Energy Housing in Rural Scotland: a Case Study
In rural Scotland there has been a trend over the last 40 years towards mass market housing development which employs standardised housing models and suburban planning layouts. These have little relationship to rural landscape characteristics, regional climatic variations or historic rural …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… transformations in the twentieth-century rural South. Yet, our understanding of how African Americans actively engaged in power struggles over space, and the nature of struggle in the Border South, has been under-analyzed. This dissertation looks at the significance of space and place to …