Forced Relocation vs. Voluntary Mobility: The Effects of Dispersal Programmes on Households

The deconcentration of poverty in the US has involved both voluntary mobility programmes for low-income households and involuntary relocation of families through government action. This paper examines the effects on families of these two different strategies. Using data on over 600 families in the Twin Cities region of Minneapolis/Saint Paul, the study reveals only sporadic support for the hypothesis that voluntary or involuntary participants in the deconcentration effort will report improvements in their living conditions, or report better conditions than a control group of public housing and Section 8 residents. Several possible explanations for the lack of programme effects are offered.     

公共租赁房建设的“重庆模式”

文章介绍了在近年来各地保障性住房建设如火如荼的大背景下,公共租赁房＂重庆模式＂的特点与已有的建设成绩,重点分析了重庆公租房在项目规模、用地选址和建筑设计方面存在的问题和挑战,提出相应的解决策略。     

浅论保障性住房的城市精神 宁波市鄞州区人才公寓设计

文章从设计的城市精神入手,介绍了作为保障性住房的宁波鄞州区人才公寓的设计策略,重点阐述了项目定位的特殊性和由此带来的设计针对性,探讨了一种能够在较大程度上反映居住的城市精神的新型住区设计的可能。     

居者乐其屋 上海世博会浦江镇定向安置基地规划设计

上海世博会浦江镇定向安置基地在规划设计中体现了城市,让生活更美好的上海世博会主题,为动迁居民创造多样化的生活环境,强调和谐、紧凑、功能混合、适宜步行并充满活力的居住空间,房型不大功能全,体现以人为本的设计理念。     

浙江省小城镇商住一体居住模式及其规划案例研讨

该文通过对上世纪80年代在浙江城镇出现并盛行的一类居住模式的观察,提出商住一体居住建筑的概念,并且通过对它和其他几种城镇居住建筑类型的比较,讨论了这类居住建筑模式的特征和存在的问题,最后结合一个规划设计案例的讨论提出了相应的规划设计措施.     

Investigation of different approaches to reduce allergens in asthmatic children's homes--the Breath of Fresh Air Project, Cornwall, United Kingdom

During 2001 to 2004, a study was conducted to assess the indoor environmental and health impact of installing allergen-reducing interventions in the homes of asthmatic children. Based on the results of a pilot study, to determine an intervention that would provide improved symptom scores and a reduction in house dust mite allergen (Der p 1), mechanical ventilation and heat recovery (MVHR) systems were installed in 16 homes. Environmental and respiratory health assessments were conducted before and after the installation of the MVHR systems. The results indicated that the installation of MVHR systems reduced Der p 1 concentrations in living room carpets and mattresses. There were significant reductions in symptom scores for breathlessness during exercise, wheezing, and coughing during the day and night. Although, there was not a parallel control group for the main study, the lack of change in the pilot study control group (who did not receive an intervention), indicated that the changes in symptom scores were in part to do with the intervention. Larger scale trials are needed to determine the efficacy of MVHR systems in homes to improve indoor air quality and reduce asthma symptoms.     

从皇城到投资者的城市—北京城的扩展与建设

北京具有2000多年的城市历史,留下许多层面的城市结构和建筑类型,目前,北京城的心脏依然是故宫,而且老城的几何秩序似乎仍然主宰着整个大都市,作为13亿人民的政治和文化中心的北京,正寻找着能够充分体现现代化成就和中国特色的建筑风格,北京也同样必须作出巨大的努力,来解决实现了房屋,基本设施和环境问题,最后,北京需要一个区域性发展的新概念,来控制城市的动态扩张。     

传统民居与未来居住建筑的取向

中国的传统民居在21世纪应成为富有生命力的居住形式。传统民居得以存在下去的出路是将其变成有机体 ,它能像世间万物一样为适应环境的变化而进化、改变 ,并在城市和乡村寻找到可以存在的空间     

走实验之路探竹楼更新--版纳傣族新民居实验研究札记

论述了西双版纳傣族竹楼近十几年的演变以及农村自建民居的状况 ,介绍了版纳傣族新民居实验研究的情况及其对传统更新的体会     

Private Enterprise in Eclipse? A Reassessment of British Housing Policy in the 1940s

Conventional analyses of housing policy in most European countries treat the 1940s as a decade when private enterprise was eclipsed by social housing programmes. As a result, private enterprise is also eclipsed in most accounts of housing and housing policy in the early post-war period. This paper draws on the British experience to show that if the policy narrative is traced from wartime plans rather than from post-war action, and if the question of who actually built post-war social housing is raised, then a different picture emerges. From the middle of 1942 British civil servants and ministers were engaged in detailed planning for post-war housing, in both the short and long term. Private enterprise was assumed to have a major role to play in the long term, and a supporting role in the transitional period. In practice the post-war Labour Government relied on local authorities as housing developers, who themselves relied on private contractors to build the houses. The eclipse of private enterprise was, therefore, more apparent than real.