De ontwikkeling van een woningmarktmodel en zijn toepassing op Italië. The building of a housing-market model and its application to Italy
The Italian housing market has been described and analysed using a housing-market model. The social problems in this Italian housing market have been confronted with theories on housing markets. - (AGD)
Foreigners on the housing market of a large city. The example of Cologne
Cologne ; Foreigner ; Germany ; Housebuilding ; Housing ; Housing market ; Large town
Against the background of the considerable growth in demand for living space and the decrease in new building activity in recent years, the supply of accomodation and the opportunities to move home are worse for German citizens, many of whom also
Building societies and credit rationing : an empirical examination of redlining
Redlining in the housing market occurs when building societies explicity delineate sections of cities where they will not usually grant mortgages. It is considered as part of the broader question of credit rationing, and derives a number
of alternative passible explanations of the spatial distribution of mortgage finance. These are considered using data on house sales, and surveys of building society managers and house buyers in Glasgow.
Planning settlements for upland arid regions: an overview of environmental and building considerations in New trends in urban planning. Studies in housing, urban design and planning.
Promoting the use of local building materials in Nigerian housing construction: the problems and the prospects
These two articles (cf. FARID (S. M.), Public enterprises in Nigeria), are useful to a geographer studying economic conditions in developing Nigeria. Public enterprises are not so far successful| local building materials should be substituted
Attitudes of the South African building and construction industry towards weather
Attitude ; Behaviour ; Building construction ; South Africa ; Survey ; Urban housing ; Weather type
A quantitative survey of the impact of the weather on the activities of the building and construction industry in South Africa is presented. The industry has no sophisticated response to varying weather conditions and recommendations are made
causes for establishing this new field of research are the demands on housebuilding and urban development, which require a connection of a quantitative increase in housing construction with the safeguarding of urban development qualities.―(l'A.).
The model projects of the field of research are supposed to help reviewing the possible measures for planning and building new residential areas in terms of environmental consciousness, all within the framework of accelerated procedures. The current
Paper gives a detailed analysis of the history, the geographical location and other quantitative characteristics (number of buildings, dwellings etc.) of housing estates in Hungary. Recent development of the housing estates are also analysed
, and author come to the conclusion that due to the negative effect of out-migration housing estates at a serious risk of becoming ghettos in the housing market in the future. - (ZK)
Housing the elderly in South Africa : a Free State case study
Elderly people ; Facilities ; Free State ; Housebuilding ; Housing ; Housing market ; Institution ; South Africa
South Africa has less than 7.5 percent of the population aged 60 and over, although 16 percent of whites but only 6.2 percent of blacks were aged over 60. Although in the 1980s housing the elderly was a joint pulic - private partnership, since 2000
state funded homes have been phased out. The paper examines housing and housing needs for the aged in the Free State, and the contribution of the non-state sector. - (AJC)531441.
American adobes : rural houses of northern New Mexico.
Many small towns in Northern New Mexico have a Spanish colonial heritage. Houses were built with adobe bricks, but construction was also influenced by American building styles. - (DWG)
Atlas ; Housebuilding ; Housing ; Living conditions ; Poland ; Population census ; Urban population ; Warsaw
This atlas is a cartographical presentation data from NPC in categories: ownership of buildings, age of buildings, number of rooms in houses and technical infrastructure of houses, supplemented by two coefficients: average area of house and average
area of house by inhabitant. Maps of all city represent division on 245 analytical units and more detailed maps of districts - on 1305 basic census units. - (DG)
Correlation ; Housing ; Settlement ; Slovenia ; Social geography ; Way of life
, ecological and cultural awareness and social standing. Type of housing was defined on the basis of the following elements : size of the building, purpose of the surroundings and auxiliary buildings, type of building ornaments and form of the building
This article intends to explain connections between lifestyle and types of housing, that is between habitus and habitat. Four types of lifestyles were defined on the basis of the following characteristics : economic situation of the household
. At least 10 types of houses that corresponds to defined lifestyles were found. - (IKR)