This study aims to propose design strategies for low environmental impact (low-EI) housing in the tropics while incorporating user needs to increase its acceptance in the market. The Fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) is adopted initially to draw the user needs for contemporary housing, after which the crucial design factors are identified. The analytic network process (ANP) and house of quality (HOQ) a...

Sharon M. Kelgher, Ph.D., A.C.S. W., is associate professor ofSocial Weffare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She previously taught at the University of Michigan and received her degree from the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, In 1985. Her policy analyses of home-care services from a feminist perspective include coauthorship ofWages for Caring: Compensat...

While sustainability has been under heated debate in the past 20 years, practical issues such as housing sustainability have been overlooked. This research introduces a two-tier analytical framework based on the environmental, economic and social dimensions of housing sustainability. This provides a market-oriented understanding on the issue of housing sustainability. The findings suggest that ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to determine the type and priority needs of people with multiple sclerosis in khuzestan using persian version of the southampton needs assessment questionnaire (snaq) and their relationship to age, gender, and physical disability scale, respectively. methods: in this cross-sectional study, the priority needs of 100 patients with multiple sclerosis (aged bel...

purpose: in recent years, rural housing has gone through huge changes. this paper will attempt to investigate the effect of social changes in the lives of villagers on rural housing patterns. methodology: this study is an applied research and it used descriptive - analytic method for analysis, the major part of data collection was based on field studies and sampling (cochran). the population fr...

 Following the growing urbanization, choosing and providing housing has become one of the mos t important issues for planners as well as people. Developing a comprehensive program of housing needs complete identification and deep analysis of widespread dimensions of housing and factors affecting them. In the meantime, addressing housing indices, as the key planning tool forming its main thrus t...