1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004352330403321

Autore

Blum, Léon

Titolo

A l'echelle humaine / Leon Blum ; preface de René Remond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Gallimard, 1971

Descrizione fisica

182 p. ; 17 cm

Collana

Collection idees ; 236

Disciplina

194

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

194 BLU 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453507603321

Autore

Tipple Graham

Titolo

Extending Themselves [[electronic resource] ] : User Initiated Transformations of Government-built Housing in Developing Countries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-78138-650-1

1-84631-309-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Disciplina

363.585091724

Soggetti

Housing rehabilitation

Public housing

Real Estate, Housing & Land Use

Business & Economics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The housing squeeze; 3. More than just a dwelling; 4. The financial element: transformation as an investment; 5. Sustainability issues; 6. The transformation process; 7. The case for transformations; 8. Policies for enabling transformations; Appendix 1. Transformations in Bangladesh; Appendix 2. Transformations in Egypt; Appendix 3. Transformations in Ghana; Appendix 4. Transformations in Zimbabwe; Appendix 5. An assessment of the decision to transform; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Many countries have large stocks of government-built housing which, for various reasons, are in poor physical conditions and/or do not conform to the expectations of occupants. The occupants of such housing frequently make unauthorised but quite considerable changes and extensions (transformations) to their dwellings. This book examines user-initiated transformations to government-built housing in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana and Zimbabwe, surveyed in a research programme sponsored by the UK Department for International Development. The 1600 dwellings surveyed show how relatively low-income househ