Improvement of Post-war Housing Estates
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 1985
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Housing, Building and Planning
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Housing subsidies
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Author : International Federation for Housing and Planning
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Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1987
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Author : John R. Miron
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1988-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0773561412
The size of Canadian households has been declining since at least the 1880s. Miron compares this trend to patterns of household size in England and the United States and argues that postwar changes in household formation in Canada were the result of several forces including the postwar baby boom, increased longevity, changes in marriage pattern, rising incidence of divorce, increased household affluence, and new forms of government assistance to housing. While aggregate growth in population, families, and households helps to explain why more housing was necessary, it does not explain changes in the kind of houses desired. Miron discusses changes in available housing stock as well as changes in structural type such as the great apartment boom of the late 1960s and the re-emergence of owner occupancy in the late 1970s. The types of data available for measuring change in the stock and sources of error in housing data are also analyzed. One of the books most important contributions is an annotated synthesis of national trends in household formation and housing demand, derived from Statistics Canada census data, and accompanied by an insightful analysis of the relation of these trends to housing stock evolution. This is the only available detailed study of these topics in the Canadian context.
Author : United States. National Housing Agency. Division of Urban Development
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 1942
Category : City planning
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Author : International Federation for Housing and Planning. International Congress
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Housing
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Housing policy
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Author : International Federation for Housing and Planning
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 1987
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Author : Andrew Michael Shanken
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0816653658
During the Second World War, American architecture was in a state of crisis. The rationing of building materials and restrictions on nonmilitary construction continued the privations that the profession had endured during the Great Depression. At the same time, the dramatic events of the 1930s and 1940s led many architects to believe that their profession--and society itself--would undergo a profound shift once the war ended, with private commissions giving way to centrally planned projects. The magazine Architectural Forum coined the term "194X" to encapsulate this wartime vision of postwar architecture and urbanism. In a major study of American architecture during World War II, Andrew M. Shanken focuses on the culture of anticipation that arose in this period, as out-of-work architects turned their energies from the built to the unbuilt, redefining themselves as planners and creating original designs to excite the public about postwar architecture. Shanken recasts the wartime era as a crucible for the intermingling of modernist architecture and consumer culture. Challenging the pervasive idea that corporate capitalism corrupted the idealism of modernist architecture in the postwar era, 194X shows instead that architecture's wartime partnership with corporate American was founded on shared anxieties and ideals. Business and architecture were brought together in innovative ways, as shown by Shanken's persuasive reading of magazine advertisements for Revere Copper and Brass, U.S. Gypsum, General Electric, and other companies that prominently featured the work of leading progressive architects, including Louis I. Kahn, Eero Saarinen, and Walter Gropius. Although the unexpected prosperity of the postwar era made the architecture of 194X obsolete before it could be built and led to its exclusion from the story of twentieth-century American architecture, Shanken makes clear that its anticipatory rhetoric and designs played a crucial role in the widespread acceptance
Author : Fédération internationale pour l'habitation, l'urbanisme et l'aménagement des territoires. Congrès international
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File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 1987
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