Landscaping Attributes and Property Buyers' Profiles: Their Joint Effect on House Prices

This paper investigates the effect of environmental features on house values while focusing on the interactions between landscaping attributes and home buyers' profile. The originality of this study rests on the assumption that, while neighbourhood characteristics translate into distinct sub-markets and primarily set the structure of house prices, individual home buyers' preferences, under specific market conditions, also affect values. The study benefits from two distinct, although related data sets on the single-family segment of Quebec City's housing market: while landscaping features were obtained via an extensive field survey of houses sold between 1993 and 2000, a detailed phone survey of related homeowners' family status, age and income profiles is being conducted since 2000. Findings suggest that household profile and structure do shape landscaping preferences and that utility patterns of homeowners may be best understood by looking at interactions between the two sets of variables. Considering that population aging is a major issue for economic and social planners, such a conclusion should be accounted for in housing policy design.     

Equilibrium between interest payments and income in the housing market

The literature on housing markets suggests that house prices in almost all western economies can be explained by short-run demand-oriented variables and a long-run term. The basic principles of the theory are that the short-run fluctuations, which are based on recent price developments (shocks), occur due to market imperfection, while over the long term, causality with such fundamentals as income will recover. Nonetheless, many of the interesting questions in housing economics concern adjustments toward equilibrium. This paper seeks to identify a long-run equilibrium between interest payments and household income (interest-to-income ratio) instead of between house prices and income (price-to-income ratio).

汉口里分研究之九：辅义里·丰寿里

该文回顾了辅义里和丰寿里的开发和建设的背景,分析了这两个里分的规划布局形态和建筑装饰特征,研究了1920年代初形成的汉口“模范区”住宅区内里分的个性与共性,并揭示了穿插其中的吉庆街对今日里分中居民生活形态的影响。     

房子里的聚落

当白色的几何空间带给我们清新的一瞥,你也许认为这是建筑师在模仿极简主义的形式手法,而当你身陷其中,空间的张力和干净的线脚带来广大和精微的双重感受,洁净的东方气质被白色混凝土浇筑出来,让我们忍不住猜想建筑师在表面的极简背后,定要表达更丰富的意义。这就是王昀,从近十年的世界聚落研究走回中国的建筑师。     

城市生态居住社区环境研究

城市生态居住社区是城市生态建设的重要组成部分,其环境建设对社会可持续发展具有重要意义。论文阐述了城市生态居住社区的内涵和建设目标,提出了当前我国城市生态居住社区物质环境建设中的规划设计和住宅设计策略,并对城市生态居住社区的发展进行了展望。     

城市集约化政策与住宅价格——1991-2004年墨尔本案例研究

本文通过回顾墨尔本1991—2004年期间在混合住宅建设和住宅价格方面的变化,探讨了在战略性发展政策、城市集约化政策和住宅价格之间的关系。作者认为可以将城市集约化政策视为增加土地供给的一种来源（这也许可以降低住宅价格,并有助于实现地方的政策目标）,同时它也刺激了土地需求（开发商会以高价竞拍那些预期能够建设更多住宅的地块）。本文在大都市和次区域的尺度进行了相关性分析,研究表明数据相关程度很低,并推断在城市集约化政策与住宅价格变化之间并不存在关联。     

浅析艾德瓦尔多·苏托·德·莫拉的克拉斯特大街住宅

艾德瓦尔多·苏托·德·莫拉从现实出发,创造出基于葡萄牙乡村语境的理性形式,该文选取其建筑作品中的一个典型实例进行分析,从场地与建筑,功能与空间,形式与建构三个方面的关系来讨论他设计中的理性思维过程以及简洁形式背后蕴含的复杂性。     

从化吕田地区围屋平面布局研究

该文以从化吕田地区现存广府围屋和客家围屋田野调查所取得的资料为基础,归纳总结了此两类型围屋的平面布局特征,并初步分析了其流变过程。     

汉地传统住宅要论

该文提出中国古代宇宙模式的形成曾与汉地原始住宅有密切关系，汉地传统住宅本身就含有宇宙模式的意义，并成为人与主帝沟通的依凭和安身立命的根据。并认为汉地传统居住的过程在古代社会中应该是人的实现过程。传统住宅的营造，布局，形态等。归根到底，都是围绕这一过程展开的。     

西藏民居与太阳能

该文对西藏的环境及藏式民居的特点作了分析，针对这些特点提出了可行的设计对策，强调吸收旧式藏民居的合理内核，建设太阳能新民居的观点，介绍了被动式太阳房和特隆布蓄热墙的具体运用。