Open House International: Volume 36 Issue 3

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Editorial: Changing Paradigms in Affordable Housing, Quality, and Lifestyle Theories

Ashraf M. Salama, Urmi Sengupta

Affordable 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. Salama

The 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 Sengupta

Since 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 Troyer

A 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 Jong

Australians 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 Dostoğlu

Affordable 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. Pearson

In 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 Ahmed

Affordability 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 Kellett

Much 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 Cubukcu

This 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 Oktay

This 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 Yüksel

An 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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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