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This article advocates the implementation of dual-purpose individual shelters in urban areas; they should help the homeless in the cold season and also serve as temporary emergency shelters in crisis situations such as earthquakes, floods, or others.
This chapter reports on the application of urban transition frameworks and processes in the development and implementation of a new planning model for regenerating and re-urbanising Australia’s low-density, car-dependent greyfield suburbs: the established, ageing, but well-located middle-ring suburbs built in the post-war era on larger lots.
Optimal participation in essential daily activities has been shown to improve health outcomes and support independent living, but there is limited research that identifies activity performance priorities among people experiencing homelessness living in transitional housing.
Drawing on research from a project on Māori conceptions of home and wellbeing, this article explores Indigenous experiences of home and place, which highlights Māori resistance to colonising narratives that associate place and home with economic wealth and power.
This study explores the potential of Light Gauge Steel Frame (LGSF) modular housing to address both the housing crisis and carbon reduction goals.
Trauma-informed design is an inventive architectural methodology that integrates trauma responsiveness into the design of shelters and supportive accommodations for children and youths.
This study examines urban policymakers’ perceptions about causal relationships in the urban system as revealed in urban planning reports.
This paper discusses co-housing and its role as sustainable architecture to support various aspects of the life of communities and the environment. This research is important because the potential of co-housing settlements to improve the social and mental well-being of their residents has not been widely discussed.