德国滨水集合住宅设计初探

本文试图从德国滨水住宅设计的案例中寻找滨水住宅设计的方法与特点,为我国的城市滨水住宅设计提供参考。     

浅论高层住宅建筑的质量管理

随着土地资源的日益紧张和城市化进程的发展,高层住宅建筑正在成为城市建设中的主体。由于高层住宅建筑的施工周期长,混凝土浇筑量大,工程质量等方面有其自身规律和特殊性,文中从加强工程施工质量的角度出发．结合实际工作总结出有价值的经验。     

Enhancement of condominium management based on the effect of quality attributes on satisfaction improvement

Condominium management (CM) businesses rely on continuous improvements to service quality (SQ) to increase consumer satisfaction (CS) and thereby improve operations. Lacking knowledge of SQ and CS results in poor efficiency. To develop cost-effective strategies for improvements, the relationship between SQ and CS must be investigated. This work proposes novel procedures to explore the relationship between identified SQ attributes and CS in the CM business. First, we conduct exploratory factor analysis to cluster intrinsically similar attributes into three constructs and identify significant attributes for subsequent assessment. Furthermore, resident satisfaction scores (RSSs) are computed to assess the relative importance rate (RIR) of investigated attributes by applying an adapted multivariate method to regress the RSSs on the performance of SQ attributes. To facilitate the decision-making process, the service-quality model evolved from the integration of an improved Kano’s approach and importance-performance analysis (IPA) is utilized to develop a prioritized strategy for satisfaction improvements in the CM business.     

Privatization,democratic reforms,and micro-governance change in a transition economy: Condominium homeowner associations in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam

This article addresses a dearth in the literature on condominium apartment CIDs in transition economies, focusing on change in grassroots urban governance both at the apartment building level and the neighborhood. The authors attempt to explain why apartment building CIDs, a long established phenomenon in many developed and developing countries, is emerging for the first time in Vietnam. The authors use a relational perspective, emphasizing the evolutionary and contextual factors determining the realization of Webster’s characterization of homeowner associations as ‘collective consumption clubs’, which manages micro attributes at a specific residential scale. The paper argues that the development and spread of condominium apartment CIDs in Vietnam resulted from the major policy shifts of housing privatization and democratization at the grassroots. These broad policy changes are important constitutive elements for institutional functionality of condominium CIDs to become viable and effective. Further, they describe how the private collective (i.e. homeowner association) in charge of apartment building management co-exists and complements neighborhood governance under the local government, creating differentiated grassroots governance, which is a radical shift from a pure state administration at both the neighborhood and apartment building levels, dominant during the pre-Doi Moi era. These issues are illuminated and analyzed through the use of both qualitative and quantitative primary data and review of public documents, and empirically described through the use of a case study of a condominium apartment CID in Ho Chi Minh City.     

Condominium self-governance? Issues,external interests,and the limits of statutory reform

Abstract

Condominiums are assumed in enabling statutes, related regulations, and statutory reforms to resemble ‘self-governing communities’ of owners whom collectively undertake numerous governance responsibilities to manage and sustain their buildings and living arrangements. Drawing from intensive interviews with condo owners and condo industry representatives in Ontario and New York State and a large qualitative survey of condo owners from Ontario, we outline five overlapping and longstanding governance issues that challenge the notion of self-governance and reveal it to be more illusion than reality. This disjuncture stems not only from common dilemmas of collective governance, but also from the growing influence of external and mostly commercial interests in condominiums broadly consistent with neo-liberalization. We also consider more recent reform attempts by Ontario and New York State and discuss statutory limitations in addressing these issues. We express doubt that condo statutory reform alone can successfully remedy the governance problems facing condo housing and proffer remedies including moving beyond the perception of condominiums as autonomous, self-governing realms.     

Property Owning Democracies? Home Owner Corporations in Hong Kong

Home ownership comes in a variety of forms. Owners of single-family dwellings generally enjoy a high degree of control and autonomy. Many home owners, however, are in circumstances which involve greater collective interest, medium and high-rise environments and significant state involvement and regulation. In such situations, tensions and conflicts can arise among residents and others stakeholders in relation to a range of management and maintenance issues and between owners and the wider public interest. This involves constraints on individual freedom and the necessity for co-operation. This paper discusses these and related issues with a particular focus on owners' corporations in Hong Kong. In the Hong Kong context, home owners are most typically in large scale, high rise and often technically complex environments. The particular form of the owner corporation is explored in relation to its history of development, its significance in the home ownership sector and its legal structure. Owner corporations raise a number of issues of participation and democracy. These include the anti-democratic organisational arrangement of owners' corporations which tends to limit rather than enhance participation of ordinary owners, the impact of owners' corporations in reinforcing class and income gaps as well as debates on individualism/collectivism and public/private dimensions. In policy terms there are important questions of regulation and the nature of urban management in high rise and high density environments.     

Slovenia: a new generation

During the Soviet era, Slovenia was renowned as an architectural oasis for experimentation on the western borders of eastern European greyness. Miha Desman describes how this small but significant nation has maintained its taste for design innovation, despite the shifting economic and political conditions of the past two decades. He outlines what present-day Slovenia has to offer a greater Europe and the special qualities of its contemporary architecture. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Supply of condominiums in central district of Okayama City and Kyoto City

Most of the local cities of Japan are suffering from the depopulation in central district (C.D.). In Okayama city, the government had induced some strategies such as supply more condominiums for local revitalization since 2000. From the Basic Resident Register of Okayama, the population in C.D. Okayama has increased recently. This study has the goal to clarify the situation of condominium supply in this district by an investigation. Compared with the result of a same survey in C.D. Kyoto, the following findings are confirmed: population recovery is happening in the central district in both of the 2 cities. The dimension of the condominiums in Okayama is larger than that in Kyoto. The average dimension of the condominiums in Okayama is 14 stories building with 61 units of 110 m². Contrastingly, that in Kyoto is 11 storied building with 59 units of 82 m². Most of the condominiums in C.D. Kyoto are located closely to the railway or subway station, while those in C.D. Okayama are randomly located, because of the high dependence of automobile traffic. The previous usages of the sites of condominiums in Okayama are parking, housing and financial institute, and in Kyoto they are parking, shop or business building.