Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis has four main objectives which are as follows 1. To make a detailed study of the environment of a selected low-income group of families on a comparative basis with low-income families of similar characteristics. 2. To relate the knowledge acquired from this study to the analysis and planning of a housing project. 3. To design dwellings for this project with a maximum of livability, structural soundness, pleasing aesthetic quality, and economy. 4. To investigate the financing of this housing project with several types of ownership in order to ascertain their feasibility, and to determine which offers the greater advantage to the group, to be housed.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.S.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Architecture
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Architecture
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1949
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Swackhamer, James Arthur
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
-
- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/10919/118525
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/118525