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Editorial
Diane DiaconFor twenty years the World Habitat Award competition organised by the Building and Social Housing Foundation has identified innovative and long-lasting solutions to housing…
Building for A Healthy Habitat in Bolivia: Experience in Eradicating the Chagas Disease, 1993-2005
Oscar Lijerón EstívarezThe chagas disease is a parasitic illness affecting the rural poor in the high Andes of Latin America. There are no known vaccines or medicines and it is one of Bolivia's most…
Brazil: Celso Garcia, 787 Building Restoration for Social Housing Purposes
Marcelo Kehdi Gomes Rodrigues, Adelcke Rossetto NettoCelso Garcia, 787, one of the many derelict buildings in the centre of São Paulo, was converted into housing for 84 low-income families. Members of the ULC popular housing…
Quayside Village Co-Housing, North Vancouver, Canada
Elizabeth MacKenzieThe co-housing concept originated in Denmark in the late 1960s as an alternative to traditional housing models. There are four characteristics common to most co-housing projects…
The Architect in the Community Programme, Cuba
Diane DiaconEstablished as a pilot programme in 1994, the Architect in the Community Programme now covers the whole of Cuba, providing affordable technical support to households who are…
A Visionary Urban Ecology Project in Hedebygade - 12 Sub-Projects
Kurt Kjærgard ChristensenThe renovation of the Hedebygade urban block started in 1994. With a total of 150 apartments, this project was the largest environmentally sustainable urban renovation project in…
El Salvador: Post Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Programme
Edin MartinezFUNDASAL's housing reconstruction programme demonstrates how successful community development can result from rebuilding after a devastating earthquake. Appropriate earthquake…
Gandhi-Nu-Gam: Ludiya, Kutchchh Rebuilding Rural Kutchchh through Community Participation
Yatin PandyaGandhi-Nu-Gam:Ludiya is a typical traditional village in the Kutchchh region of Gujarat, India which was devastated by an earthquake in 2001. Its holistic rehabilitation by the…
From the Orbit of Poverty to the Spiral of Growth Experiences in Community Based Habitat Development in Rural Orissa, India
Joe MadiathBy reinforcing the concept of community, a unique development process has been set off in villages of Orissa, one of the poorest states in India. The fundamentals of the programme…
Fukasawa Symbiotic Housing Complex - A Model Social Housing Project, Tokyo, Japan Rebuilding for a Sustainable Future
Kazuo IwamuraThis rebuilding of a social housing complex in Tokyo was carried out as the first model practice of Japan's national policy drive entitled “Environmentally Symbiotic Housing”…
The Ucisv-Ver Popular Housing Programme, Mexico
Cristina AlmazánThis incremental housing programme combines resources from participating families with traditional joint savings schemes and micro-credit to help those who have no access to…
Strengthening Community Initiatives, Building Partnerships Opp-Rti Sanitation and Housing Programme, Pakistan
Perween RahmanThe Orangi Pilot Project-Research and Training Institute's (OPP-RTI) work is based on the observation that poor people everywhere when faced by problems do not sit idle, but take…
Kaantabay Sa Kauswagan: Empowering the Urban Poor in Naga City, Philippines
Wilfredo PrillesInitiated in 1989, the KsK programme (literally Partners in Development) shows how a tri-partite approach of pooling resources and capabilities of private landowners, city and…
Equalising Housing Opportunities in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Judith HermansonFaced with a dearth of affordable housing opportunities, even after the end of Apartheid, residents from Motherwell, South Africa, turned to CHF International for help. CHF…
The Fairfield Estate- People's Sustainable Development
Howard LiddellThe Fairfield Estate in Perth, Scotland has shifted in one generation from being an ‘estate from hell’ to a model settlement. In 1989 there was a waiting list of 200 people trying…
The Eldonian Village, Liverpool
George EvansThe Eldonian Village is the result of people taking control of their own lives. In 1978, when the Eldonians were faced with their homes being demolished and their community broken…
Integer Intelligent and Green Housing Project Lyttleton Street, West Bromwich, United Kingdom
Nicholas C. ThompsonThe Lyttleton Street scheme was a pilot project, applying INTEGER's Intelligent and Green design ideas, processes and technologies at the first stage of the redevelopment of the…
The Prince George - More Than Just A Home
Rosanne Haggerty, Ellen GoetzCommon Ground's vision of supportive housing, as exemplified by The Prince George, is comprehensive, cost-effective, aesthetically pleasing and community-minded. Along with its…
Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Development in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Clayton PrestonEast Lake Commons is a 67 home mixed-use, mixed-income in-fill community in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The community planning process began in 1997, and construction was substantially…
ISSN:
0168-2601e-ISSN:
2633-9838Online date, start – end:
2005Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr. Chaham Alalouch
- Prof. Yonca Hurol