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Full-Text Articles in Urban Studies and Planning
New Beginnings Homeless Transition Village, Community Design Center
New Beginnings Homeless Transition Village, Community Design Center
Project Reports
More than three million Americans experience homelessness annually. Emergency shelter capacity is limited while local governments are unable to provide even temporary housing. Informal housing involving interim self-help solutions are now popular adaptive actions for obtaining shelter despite nonconformance with city codes. Unfortunately, most informal solutions have resulted in objectionable tent cities and squatter campgrounds where the local response has simply been to move the problem around. Our homeless transition village plan prototypes a shelter-first solution using a kit-of-parts that can be replicated in other communities. Village design reconciles key gaps between informal building practices and formal sector regulations, creating …
Preserving Low Income Housing In Maine - An Inventory Of Assisted Housing, Elizabeth H. Mitchell
Preserving Low Income Housing In Maine - An Inventory Of Assisted Housing, Elizabeth H. Mitchell
Maine Collection
Preserving Low Income Housing In Maine - An Inventory of Assisted Housing
Maine State Housing Authority, Augusta , Maine, 1988.
Sociological Perspectives On Urban Housing, Madiha Al Safty
Sociological Perspectives On Urban Housing, Madiha Al Safty
Faculty Book Chapters
This work on urban research strategies in Egypt is the product of several factors. First of all is the challenge, excitement, diversity and stimulation of living in Egyptian cities, Cairo above all. Not only are Egyptian cities rooted in deep antiquity, but they have the richly stratified layers of a host of great civilizations. Modern urban Egypt is immeasurably complex in its own right, but its quite astounding past only adds to its wonderment. Thus, the chief inspiration for this publication is the wealthy cultural and historical context in which these scholars were assembled and where they sought to interpret …
Urban Welfare And Administration: Discussion, Richard Lobban
Urban Welfare And Administration: Discussion, Richard Lobban
Faculty Book Chapters
This work on urban research strategies in Egypt is the product of several factors. First of all is the challenge, excitement, diversity and stimulation of living in Egyptian cities, Cairo above all. Not only are Egyptian cities rooted in deep antiquity, but they have the richly stratified layers of a host of great civilizations. Modern urban Egypt is immeasurably complex in its own right, but its quite astounding past only adds to its wonderment. Thus, the chief inspiration for this publication is the wealthy cultural and historical context in which these scholars were assembled and where they sought to interpret …
Should Cairo Be Governed?, Earl L.(Tim) Sullivan
Should Cairo Be Governed?, Earl L.(Tim) Sullivan
Faculty Book Chapters
This work on urban research strategies in Egypt is the product of several factors. First of all is the challenge, excitement, diversity and stimulation of living in Egyptian cities, Cairo above all. Not only are Egyptian cities rooted in deep antiquity, but they have the richly stratified layers of a host of great civilizations. Modern urban Egypt is immeasurably complex in its own right, but its quite astounding past only adds to its wonderment. Thus, the chief inspiration for this publication is the wealthy cultural and historical context in which these scholars were assembled and where they sought to interpret …