Affordable housing for smart villages / Hemanta Doloi and Sally Donovan.

By: Doloi, Hemanta Kumar [author.]Contributor(s): Donovan, Sally, 1953- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429575853; 0429575858; 9780429577963; 0429577966; 9780429573743; 042957374X; 9780429200250; 0429200250Subject(s): Smart cities | Dwellings -- Design and construction -- Cost effectiveness | Housing -- Planning | Community development | Rural development | ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning | ARCHITECTURE / Project ManagementDDC classification: 333.33/8091734 LOC classification: TD159.4Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement
Contents:
Housing in rural settings -- The nature-culture determinants of rural housing -- Affordable houses -- Housing affordability -- Materials and resources in construction of affordable houses -- Global practices in rural development -- Vulnerability in rural community -- Resilience in rural community -- Sustained growth and development.
Summary: "This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rural livelihoods at both personal and community level. Developed around four intersecting themes: explaining houses and housing in rural settings; exploring affordability in the context of aspirations and vulnerability; rural development agendas involving housing and communities; and construction for resilience in rural communities, the book provides an overview of some of the little understood and sometimes counter-intuitive best practices on rural affordability and affordable housing that have emerged in developing economies over the last thirty years. Drawing on practice-based evidence this book presents innovative ideas for harnessing rural potential, and empowering rural communities with added affordability and progressive development in the context of housing and improved living standards"-- Provided by publisher.
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Housing in rural settings -- The nature-culture determinants of rural housing -- Affordable houses -- Housing affordability -- Materials and resources in construction of affordable houses -- Global practices in rural development -- Vulnerability in rural community -- Resilience in rural community -- Sustained growth and development.

"This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rural livelihoods at both personal and community level. Developed around four intersecting themes: explaining houses and housing in rural settings; exploring affordability in the context of aspirations and vulnerability; rural development agendas involving housing and communities; and construction for resilience in rural communities, the book provides an overview of some of the little understood and sometimes counter-intuitive best practices on rural affordability and affordable housing that have emerged in developing economies over the last thirty years. Drawing on practice-based evidence this book presents innovative ideas for harnessing rural potential, and empowering rural communities with added affordability and progressive development in the context of housing and improved living standards"-- Provided by publisher.

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