Globalisation alongside with the wider utilization of modern and mobile technology is changing the relationship with time, place and space by enabling and maintaining connections despite the physical location. In consequence people are less than ever tied to one particular place and they are basically free to choose the location and time where to spend time, dwell or work. This development tren...

nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. the nigerian government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

BACKGROUND In malaria-endemic areas, residents of modern houses have less malaria than those living in traditional houses. This study will determine if modern housing provides incremental protection against clinical malaria over the current best practice of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and prompt treatment in The Gambia, determine the incremental cost-effectiveness of the intervention...

used to write and make speeches about all the ways in which our society was messing itself up, and how it could all be improved, and in his case the things that he talked about were fairly obvious and straightforward, and his conclusions were equally--what shall we say--visionary and utopian as mine. I don’t want any of you to think that I really believe that it is politically likely that we ar...

like other economic markets, housing market is comprised of supply and demand dimensions and equality of supply and demand makes the housing market balanced. the aim of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of housing market of tehran city and some deficiencies of this market with fundamental – applied methodology. the variable studied here is the saleable residential unit with minim...

there is a consensus among housing experts and policy makers that there are not enough resources for government alone to address growing urban housing challenges in many developing countries. consequently, a paradigm shift from government provision to partnerships between the public and private sectors is advocated. this study examined the prospects and challenges of public-private partnerships...

p olicy makers in housing sector seeks to use instruments by which they can control volatility of housing price and prevent high disturbances of the bubble and price shocks, or at least, reduce them. in the portfolio and speculation theories, it is emphasized that speculative demand for housing is the main cause of shocks and price volatilities in the sector. the theory of housing price bubble ...