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Editorial: Changing Paradigms in Affordable Housing, Quality, and Lifestyle Theories
Ashraf M. Salama, Urmi SenguptaAffordable housing has long been an important planning and design concern in large urban areas and around the peripheries of major cities where population growth has led to an…
Trans-Disciplinary Knowledge for Affordable Housing
Ashraf M. SalamaThe aim of this paper is to present an approach for comprehending affordable housing. The approach is based on a new paradigm of research: trans-disciplinarity; a form of inquiry…
The Housing Triangulation: A Discourse on Quality, Affordability and Lifestyles in India
Urmi SenguptaSince 1991 with the advent of globalization and economic liberalisation, basic conceptual and discursive changes are taking place in housing sector in India. The new changes…
Modeling Quality and Housing Preferences for Affordable New Housing Developments
Alina Delgado, Frank De TroyerA fundamental change in the planning and delivery of new housing projects has taken place in the last years, with the focus shifting towards adding value to projects based on a…
The Cost of Housing: More Than Just Dollars
R.J. Fuller, U.M. de JongAustralians were recently awarded the dubious honour of building the largest homes in the world. Our new homes are now seven percent larger than those in the United States and…
Affordable Housing in Turkey: User Satisfaction in Tokİ Houses
Miray Gür, Neslihan DostoğluAffordable housing policies in Turkey have reached a new stage over the last decade in the context of the TOKİ model advocated by the government. Housing developed by TOKİ (the…
Minimum Energy - Maximum Space: Higher-Density Attached Family Housing
N. K. Burford, J. Thurrot, A.D. PearsonIn 2016 all new houses in England and Wales must be zero carbon. To date most work in zero carbon housing has been carried out on detached family housing typologies. Practice has…
Lifestyle and Affordability Choices in Traditional Housing of Old Dhaka
Iftekhar AhmedAffordability and lifestyle choices in housing are critical to meet basic human needs for shelter, security and wellbeing. The meaning of a house for a particular group of people…
Towards Affordability: Maximising Use Value in Low-Income Housing
Dina Shehayeb, Peter KellettMuch research into housing concentrates on the dwelling as a place of shelter for the household, as a unit to accommodate basic domestic activities or as an asset to secure and…
Which is Better, Social Houses or Gecekondus? An Empirical Study on Izmir's Residents
Ebru CubukcuThis study applied Salama's (2006, 2007) framework for affordable housing research and compared house and neighborhood satisfaction and future house aspirations of low income…
Challenges and Prospects for Affordable and Sustainable Housing: The Case of Yola, Nigeria
Jallaludeen Muazu, Derya OktayThis paper aims to determine the challenges and prospects for affordable housing within the context of sustainability by investigating the socio-economic and environmental impacts…
Squatter Housing as a Model for Affordable Housing in Developing Countries
Elmira Gür, Yurdanur Dülgeroğlu YükselAn affordability challenge for the governments is the trade-off between cost and quality. The housing gap is a reality for developing countries, and most frequently the gap is met…
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0168-2601e-ISSN:
2633-9838Online date, start – end:
2005Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr. Chaham Alalouch
- Prof. Yonca Hurol