Browsing by Subject "housing"
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Affordable and Sustainable Design for Rural Houses in Cambodia
(2014-04-04)This thesis investigates a new prototype for housing in rural Kampot, Cambodia with a focus on the health and safety of the inhabitants. This study came about because traditional Cambodian houses are rapidly disappearing ... -
Collective Housing: Linking Ecological and Social Sustainability
(2011-12-14)A constellation of challenges, including changing family types and shrinking household size, housing affordability, and ecological impact, can be addressed through a different approach to private dwelling. These are ... -
The Domestic Public: Territoriality in Shared Space
(2024-08-14)Shared housing in North America is largely inadequate, because ideas of collective ownership are incompatible with contemporary views on private property. The thrust of the thesis is to investigate more fundamentally what ... -
From Real Estate to Dream Houses: Aspirations and Experiences of Homeownership in Two Maritime Provinces
(2020-08-17)Housing research in Canada tends to concentrate on the largest cities and to focus on market forces at large rather than the experiences of people seeking homes. This thesis utilizes ethnographic research with prospective, ... -
Professional Undermining: Homelessness and Service as Method
(2023-04-12)The present thesis investigates homelessness and architectural practice. This thesis argues that homelessness defies deterministic solutions to housing and underscores the importance of non-market-based solutions for housing ... -
Structural Barriers to Finding Home: Poverty Governance in a Housing and Homelessness 'Crisis'
(2024-04-10)This thesis examines the political changes and processes that impact people experiencing homelessness in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) in Nova Scotia. I use the theoretical lens of poverty governance to argue ...