Open House International: Volume 32 Issue 1

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Table of contents

Editorial

Nicholas Wilkinson

2006 was our 30th year of publication - quite a feat considering that our financial muscle is dependent on a relatively small group of subscribers and seven institutional…

Farming in Suburbia

Avi Friedman

Once considered the ‘last frontier’, post World War II perception of a limitless North American landscape directed development into country lands. Even an apparently boundless…

City Fragments and Displaced Plans in War Torn Mozambique

Lisa Bornstein

This article explores why a massive effort to promote peace, democratic governance, economic recovery, and poverty-reduction in Mozambique produced social, economic and spatial…

A Highrise Urban Village: Tectonic Mutation in a Design Studio

Jin-Ho Park

This paper presents the design exploration of a studio conducted at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The study began with the premise that high-rise housing in Honolulu is not a…

Mass Housing: Residents Satisfaction with their Housing and Environment

Lale Berköz, Ömer Lütfi Kellekçi

It is often necessary to assess the satisfaction of the house users with the house environment, in other words the compliance of the environment with their expectations, needs and…

The Destruction of American Historic Housing Projects

Paola Somma

In 1993, US Congress launched the Urban Revitalization Demonstration program, later to become known as HOPE VI, a national plan whose declared aim was to transform public housing…

Social Housing Transformation Practices in Constantine: Lessons from Ali Mendjeli

Tahar Bellal, Ouafa Saighi

This study is addressing the widespread transformation activities made to government-built housing intended for low income urban households. These unauthorised self-help…

Urbanization As A Parameter of Change for Meanings of Homes

Ipek Yürekli, Arda Inceoglu

This study suggests that although there are no apparent clues in the built environment of informal housing settlements developed by immigrants from rural areas, urbanization…

The Otherness of Cyberspace, Virtual Reality, and Hypertext Vis-À-Vis "The Traditional"

Tugrul Ilter

This article engages with the question of the otherness of cyberspace, VR, and hypertext, and how they are distinguished as "new" from "the traditional." It begins by noting how…

Book Reviews

Yonca Hürol, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Keith Hilton

THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS

MANAGING URBAN DISASTERS

HOMEWORKS - A NEW AMERICAN TOWNHOUSE

Cover of Open House International

ISSN:

0168-2601

e-ISSN:

2633-9838

Online date, start – end:

2005

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr. Chaham Alalouch
  • Prof. Yonca Hurol