As a mental health worker who has been watching the working out of the Mental Deficiency Acts for some years now, I would allow myself some honest criticism in the hope that it may be constructive. I often wonder, allowing for the still serious lack of institutional accommodation in most areas, whether it is really necessary to make such provision for some of the high grade patients who are at ...

Aiming to study the temperature field changes, the House VI project was checked. This house is located in Vila37, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a dead-end small street with only one inlet/outlet. In the houses of Vila37, the indoor ventilation is restricted to the facade windows. Giving the impossibility of introducing cross-ventilation in a traditional way, a short wind-catch was previously added wi...

Canada’s efforts in healthy housing are based mainly in various low energy house programs. Since the early 1980s, Natural Resources Canada has launched two major programs to promote the construction of energy efficient or low energy houses (Mayo and Sinha 1996, Sinha 1996). The first one is the R-2000 program that was established in 1982. The performance target for R2000 houses was based on a 5...

From our experiences in the past, we have seen that the growth of cities is very much dependent on the transportation networks. In mega cities, transportation networks determine to a significant extent as to where the people will move and houses will be built. Hence, transportation network data is crucial to an urban growth prediction system. Existing works have used manually derived distance b...

no trace of the wild talk to which some of his followers have accustomed us. To demand " millions of houses " in the twinkling of an eye is to cry for the moon. If thousands of millions of money were available for the purpose to-morrow the thing could not be done. Men are as essential as money, and men at present are not forthcoming. It is true that the'Prime Minister is sanguine of being able,...

In the wake of the housing market crash in the United States in the late 2000s, images of abandoned homes on the urban periphery of American cities dominated international media coverage. This narrative of peri-urban over-extension was used by media documenting the housing crisis in Mexico, despite the profound differences in context, namely the role of the government in housing finance. This p...

This study focuses on the performance of micro finance institutions (MFIs) in sustainable housing poverty reduction for the majority urban poor in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. The paper assesses the impact, challenges and prospects of MFIs in transforming the urban poor residents’ livelihoods through the provision of Housing Microfinance (HMF) loan product. From available data, Ad...

in the architecture of iranian traditional houses, the ornamentations available in the inscriptions of houses entrance portal express the identity of architects and personality of houses owners and are rooted in their religious and national beliefs and faiths. the main hypothesis of this research is changing the physique and application of religious contents in compliance with the thoughts and ...