Critical geography ; Daily life ; Historical geography ; Home ; Household ; Human geography ; Participation
This paper reviews the diverse literatures on negative experiences of home at the domestic scale and sets out an agenda to further critical geographies of home. Tying into broader debates in critical geography on the delineations between the mapping
of exclusionary landscapes versus the doing of something to transform them, the paper finds that the line between these two modes should not always be dichotomously drawn. Now is the time that the burgeoning interest in, and catalogue of research on, home
The main theme is the role of the broad-based home-ownership research. The idea of home-ownership is widely shared not only among middle- and high-income households, but most Western countries are committed to a home-ownership housing policy.
New trends in the dynamism of second homes expansion into not attractive areas from tourist point of view
Objects of individual recreation are distributed in attractive and non attractive areas from tourist point of view. Proportion of second homes on the housing fund of settlements is demonstrated in the Osoblaha frontier region in Silesia
Sharing the risk of home-ownership : a portfolio approach
The paper examines the relationships among the desirability of home-ownership, price risks and the return of housing investment. It argues that price risks may undermine the desirability of ownership. It shows that larger price risks and higher
Not a house but a home : the Centennial car camp for the homeless
Study of a temporary car camp for the homeless in Eugene, Oregon. Author used photographs, cognitive maps and a questionnaire to evaluate if the homeless there experienced a sense of home. Most residents did feel at home, basing their perceptions
The scope for poverty alleviation among elderly home-owners in the United States through reverse mortgages
A reverse mortgage is a loan secured against the home equity owned by the borrower. The elderly borrower is allowed to use the home as a principal residence for as long as he wishes. The A. computes the monthly payments by simulating the tenure plan
Of nomads and vagrants : single homelessness and narratives of home as place
The A. examines understandings of home as place articulated by single homeless men living in night shelter and hostel accommodation in a large town of the south coast of England. Drawing upon a reconstructive life-history approach, the A. sets
the understandings of each respondent within the context of the mobility which has characterised that respondent's homeless career. Four countrasting narratives of home as place are outlined, relating to the experiences of the displaced, the homesick, those whose
A minimal representation for dead-reckoning navigation : updating the homing vector
Généralités sur la géographie ; Homing ; Linéarisation ; Modèle ; Navigation ; Origine-destination ; Système d'équations ; Trajectoire
Ce modèle de navigation à l'estime établit que l'observateur utilise les informations sur ses propres déplacements sous une forme discrète et qu'il modifie sa trajectoire de manière à l'adapter continuellement au homing vector . Une représentation
Changing countrysides, changing villages : second homes in Rhodes, South Africa
Economic impact ; Landscape ; Leisure ; Rural area ; Second home ; South Africa
The paper concludes that coinciding with the post-productivist changes in the Rhodes countryside, second home ownership has contributed to employment creation and has had a varied tourism and regional impact which has added much needed support