This study estimates and interprets the effects of macroeconomic and local housing market conditions on rents and occupancies in different segments of the multifamily rental housing market. The research uses longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of apartments drawn from the American Housing Survey to determine whether apartments of different quality grades are differentially...

For several decades,Iranian cities are experiencing major and fast urban growth. At the top of them is Tehran, Iran’s capital city, with doubled population in 30years from approximately 6 to 12.5 million in 2016. Undoubtedly such a magnificent raise in population has increasedthe need for settlements and the city has to respond to it. Today, Tehran,is the center for such exogenous development w...

This paper proposes a Smartphone-Assisted Localization Algorithm (SALA) for the localization of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are placed in indoor environments (e.g., smart home, smart office, smart mall, and smart factory). This SALA allows a smartphone to visually display the positions of IoT devices in indoor environments for the easy management of IoT devices, such as remote-control...

The authors evaluate indoor air quality in apartments built according to the South Korean Clean-Healthy House construction standard. The evaluation includes three types of residential units with differing gross floor areas. Indoor air was analyzed for formaldehyde (observed range 52.0–99.2 ug/m), acetaldehyde (14.6–61.0 ug/m), benzene (0.6–1.3 ug/m), toluene (161.8–371.0 ug/m) ethylbenzene (6.5...

In modern times, when climate change is getting more and more drastic and issues like CO2 emission and energy efficiency are becoming more and more important, it is necessary to find possible energy savings in every area. To achieve these possible savings also in the residential area it is essential to establish Intelligent Building Automation in residential buildings. Therefore, within the fra...

This paper presents a user study of Video Mediated Communication (VMC) involving six persons with mild intellectual disabilities. It took place at the “comHOME”, a full-scale model of an “apartment of the future”, showing innovative architectural and technical design with regard to the integration of VMC into the domestic environment. The design concept of the apartment is based on the creation...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Coal exploitation technology could have affected the deformation of ground under a housing estate in the Upper Silesia agglomeration. The 10-storey apartment building began to deviate from the vertical. These factors affected the housing conditions of inhabitants in the block of flats. From 1991-2001, coal-mine surveyors monitored the vertical deviation. The inhabita...

According to the Art. 47 of Constitution Ukraine, everyone is guaranteed right housing, which can be realized by building, owning or renting it. In addition, at constitutional level, Ukraine undertook assist citizens in need social protection purchasing housing. particular, such may provided housing state local self-government bodies free charge for a fee that affordable this category persons a...

The article focuses on the study of image house in novel by Natalia Hurnytska “Coffee Melody Cardamom Tone”. central theme taboo love acts as a catalyst for work's spatial content, and house's motive becomes tool analyzing inner world main heroine. movement character illustrates her worldview transformation, while mode housing serves reflection nature owners. In novel, heroine is constantly mot...