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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"single family home"”.
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Icon + expectation : exploring the evolution of the American single family home
To propose a new conceptualization of "home", it is necessary to explore the mechanisms that have created this revered icon. Since the industrial revolution, the commercial packaging of the home has continually reinforced its significance as a mass-produced object. From clothing to automobiles, …
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Damn the city, dam the suburbs : redefining the single family home
Today, we no longer realize public perception of home ownership in the United States is primarily shaped by government sponsored programs. In the 1940's, however, it was these programs that created a change in the options for where to buy homes. What was previously the country became a place to …
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Micro-level return and volatility drivers in Boston's single family home market
… and return is critical to investors and homeowners who wish to maximize investment returns and portfolio growth. Moreover, for mortgage lenders who are obligated to invest in a wide spectrum of communities, volatilities in house prices may affect the distribution of their collateral …
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Densifying the suburbs : a single-family home alternative for tropical living in Coral Gables, Florida
… viable, reduced-size typological alternative for single-family housing as a potential vehicle for the densification of the urban suburbs. Through demographic and census data, the need for this kind of densification was first established and then a design project was formulated using site-specific …
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The impact of multifamily development on single family home prices in the Greater Boston Area
The impact of large, multifamily developments on nearby single-family home prices was tested in five towns in the Greater Boston Area. Case studies that had recent multifamily developments built near transit nodes or town centers were chosen. For each town, a conservative impact zone around the …
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On the waterfront : a 25 year study of the relative risk & return of Florida single-family waterfront and inland homes (1977-2002)
… the greater the expected return-to the single-family home market. Treating coastal waterfront property as a unique asset class, its investment performance is measured and compared with that of inland property to determine the potential existence of a "mispricing" in the home market. …
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Evolving the Suburbs
The single family home is a building type synonymous with residential architecture among many in the United States. The notion that the ideal built character of a dwelling is a private structure, built on private land, and owned by a private entity is as old as that ownership equating to power in …
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What drives condo prices : the rental or single family housing market?
… condo prices are influenced by apartment rents, single family home prices, the housing price index (HPI) and the yield on the 10-year U.S. treasury. The results of the analysis tell us that condo prices have followed and acted very much like single family home prices during the last 16 years. The …
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Another Concrete In the Wall
… a concrete wall and evolved into the design of a single-family home.
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This is not my beautiful house : cohousing as an alternative American Dream
… rent or improve the prospects of becoming a homeowner, let alone location of friends or the coalescing of a community. In the past ten to fifteen years the word "cohousing" has been used to describe a strategy that attempts to redress the problems of rising housing costs, work vs. family …
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Adding value : an architect's retaliation against the mortgage industry and a computational investigation into do-it-yourself design-build
… for the design, fabrication, and assembly of the single-family home. Driven by the American mortgage crises of the early-20th Century, the proposal selects for its client-type the foreclosed ex-homeowner and thus the constraint of a mortgage-free homeownership solution. The thesis presents a …
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O! Canada? : a pavilion for the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai
… elements together to stand as a critique of the single family home that is their apotheosis. Also addressed are the ramification of large crowds on the display of objects, the potential for representing national identity without recourse to romanticism or nostalgia and economic and ecological …
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reBURB: Redefining the Suburban Family Unit Under a New Construction Ecology
… was alive.” -William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle Home ownership is a significant driver within American culture. In Florida single-family homes represent one of the largest components of our built surroundings, significantly impacting the environment through material use and energy consumption. …
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A forecast of prices, rents and construction in the Salt Lake City-Ogden Metropolitan Area
… will then use regression analysis to forecast single family home prices, rents of multi-family units, and future construction of both types of housing for the Salt Lake City-Ogden metro area.
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The leasehold as an alternative ownership structure
… in many different types of transactions -- from single-family home purchases to multi-tenant office tower developments. Despite their flexibility, however, leaseholds are rare in the US and are not widely understood by investors and developers. Compared with freeholds, leaseholds involve …
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Potential of cross laminated timber in single family residential construction
… comparison of the cost to construct a CLT home versus a LFW home to quantify the cost difference between both options in the single family home (SFH) market. Based on a realistic floor plan, three different designs were compared based on cost and construction timeline to determine the …
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Neighborhood design for Cambridge
… the traditional solution of the detached single-family home in the suburbs. It then analyzes townhouse and apartment design as appropriate for the site and sets performance criteria. Critical to the success of a neighborhood design is the creation of workable, attractive street network and …
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Changes in single family housing prices due to the planning and construction of Interstate 476 in Pennsylvania
… This thesis examines the capitalization into single-family housing prices of the construction investment for Interstate 476 (I-476), which had faced public opposition for more than two decades. While the majority of previous capitalization studies have been limited to the areas adjacent to …
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Building Insurance
… and building code armor stick-frame American single family home and its aesthetic traditions, this thesis proposes a new building typology entirely: a neighborly cooperative of adjoined homes. Under a single roof, property lines are transformed into sites of mutual stewardship, manifesting …
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This wonderful world of mobile home living
The mobile home, or manufactured home as it is called to day, comprises 25% of all new homes sold today. Although it is such a large portion of the housing market, it is plagued by a social stigma which has undeniably been a part of its history as a building type. Many factors contribute to this …
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