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Interior Design In The Realm Of Social Services: Housing The Homeless, Amanda Kaserman Leininger
Interior Design In The Realm Of Social Services: Housing The Homeless, Amanda Kaserman Leininger
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
The present study plans to investigate the social issues of homelessness and the strategies for creating positive living environments that aim to enable inhabitants to re-enter society. Supported by statistical evidence, homelessness has been recognized as a growing issue in the United States that deserves serious attention and proper solutions. There are a wide range of reasons why people succumb to the undesirable status of homelessness. By exploring the circumstances, we will be able to gain a better understanding of the issues, which in turn can help formulate supportive programs and inform environmental design solutions to accommodate their needs. Currently …
A Place Of Dwelling For Graduate Students, Garth H. Schwellenbach
A Place Of Dwelling For Graduate Students, Garth H. Schwellenbach
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
The lives of graduate students are often insular and focused, with high workloads and resultant stresses. Beyond the unifying demands of academia, graduate students have a diverse set of individual challenges. Some students have families, some are visiting the US and learning to live in a new culture, and some are fresh out of undergraduate studies and living on their own for the first time. In addition to these challenges the graduate student body is a diverse and disparate group, representing varied cultures, experiences and generations. Due to these demands and circumstances the students have little time and energy to …