scholarly journals Evaluation on the Internal Public Space Quality in Affordable Housing Based on Multi-Source Data and IPA Analysis

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1000
Author(s):  
Jie Zhao ◽  
Zhenghong Peng ◽  
Lingbo Liu ◽  
Yang Yu ◽  
Yan Yu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Source Data

Much affordable housing has poor accessibility to external urban public space facilities because of its suburb location, which makes the residents’ daily life and social activities mainly depend on the internal public space of the community. Such affordable housing needs urgent upgrading of the internal public space based on the thorough understanding of the low-income residents’ demand ranking. The internal spaces’ transformation will significantly improve the living environment and the quality of residents’ life, and it also provides a way to promote social equity and sustainable urban development. By using the multi-source data and the two-step floating catchment area method, this paper selects typical affordable housing, which has poor accessibility to external urban public space, as our case study. After establishing the evaluation index system, IPA (Importance and Performance Analysis) is used to calculate the quadrant value of each index so as to clarify the upgrading urgency indexes from the residents’ demand for internal public space of affordable housing. Studies have shown that tables, chairs and pavilions, pedestrian systems, retail commercial facilities, medical and health facilities, and recreational space have the strongest urgency for upgrading; fitness facilities, exercise space, barrier-free access, guidance signs and parking lot design are the next most urgent indexes; Recreational facilities, entrances/exits of the residential area, green space in front of t residential buildings, and cultural facilities all have general urgency for upgrading.

scholarly journals A Multi-Level Path Analysis of the Relationships between the Momentary Experience Characteristics, Satisfaction with Urban Public Spaces, and Momentary- and Long-Term Subjective Wellbeing

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weijs-Perrée ◽  
Dane ◽  
van den Berg ◽  
van Dorst
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Contextual Characteristics ◽  
Multi Level

Previous research has shown that the urban environment could influence people's behavior and wellbeing. However, little is still known about how the objective and subjective measures of the momentary experience of urban public spaces could contribute to the satisfaction with the urban environment of cities, which eventually could influence the momentary and long-term subjective wellbeing (SWB) of citizens. Therefore, the aim of this research is to gain insight into how momentary experience and satisfaction with the urban public space could contribute to the SWB of citizens, and thereby control for personal, contextual characteristics. Relationships were simultaneously analyzed using a multi-level path analysis approach based on a sample of 1056 momentary experiences of urban public spaces reported by 161 citizens of the urban area Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The results showed that personality and personal characteristics are highly important for explaining long-term SWB and subsequently long-term SWB positively influences momentary SWB (the degree of feeling secure, comfortable, happy and annoyed) together with the momentary satisfaction of urban public space characteristics. In addition, contextual characteristics, such as time/day and distance to facilities are important for explaining people’s momentary SWB. Policy makers and urban planners can use these results when developing policy and designing a healthy, attractive, livable and safe living environment for citizens.

scholarly journals The Significance of Community Training Centers in Building Affordable Housing and Developing Settlements

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Bredenoord ◽  
Joon Park ◽  
Kyohee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

This paper examines the visions and the roles of community training centers (CTCs) in community development and housing provision in developing countries from the perspective of assisted self-help housing. It reviews a Korean community center that contributed to community-led self-help housing for low-income groups in the 1970s. It also reviews a few notable CTCs from India, Uganda, Nepal, and three countries in Central America to examine the functions and contributions of the CTCs. It was found that CTCs play a central role in community empowerment and the production of affordable building materials receiving technical or financial assistance from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governments. The paper makes a compelling case for CTCs by drawing on these exemplary cases to provide a development model that has the potential to facilitate the improvement of the living environment in developing countries.

scholarly journals Criteria and Factors Affecting Sustainable Housing Design in Iran

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davood Baradaran Tavakoli ◽  
Maryam Tafrishi ◽  
Ehsan Abbaspour
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Cultural Origins

Since the beginning of human life, housing problems are the most important matters of his life and with the expansion of urban life, importance in terms of the needs of mental, psychological and physical users has been doubled. The housing subject has been always interest to architects from various aspects and attempts made to improve affordable housing, attempts to improve relations or social housing, or seek to identify and develop the cultural origins, economics, management and other macro policies. On the other hand due to the growing population and consequently expand need to housing, and also identifying of residential needs of people in different dimensions necessity of this research is doubled. This study assuming more than half of the land in our cities is devoted to residential use and also lack of attention to sustainable development in the Residential Buildings the purpose of this study sustainable urban development and the achievement of sustainable affordable housin pattern.This study focuse on descriptive- analytical and based on library research seeks to answer this question: What are the criteria for designing sustainable housing in Iran? Thus, after the introduction, do analysis and commentary related content. Conclusion suggest that in addition to aspects of sustainability (economic, social and environmental), factors such as social, cultural and attention to the flexibility according to Iranian households, design sustainable housing should be considered.

Sustainable Low-Income Urban Housing in Vietnam: Context and Strategies

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-65
Author(s):  
Iftekhar Ahmed ◽  
Jalel Sager ◽  
Le Vu Cuong
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Urban Slums ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Low Income Housing

This paper presents concepts important for understanding the potential of sustainable low-income housing in Vietnam, with a focus on key environmental, socio-economic, and cultural dimensions that bear on its housing sector. It examines challenges for sustainable urban development in Hanoi and HCMC, Vietnam's two main cities. Recognising the current challenges in balancing affordability and sustainability, the study explores Vietnam's lack of adequate and affordable housing and the problem of its urban slums. Synergistic strategies suitable for the Vietnamese context are then suggested for sustainable low-income housing in these two cities.

scholarly journals A novel social distancing analysis in urban public space: A new online spatio-temporal trajectory approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 102765
Author(s):  
Jie Su ◽  
Xiaohai He ◽  
Linbo Qing ◽  
Tong Niu ◽  
Yongqiang Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Trajectory Approach ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Temporal Trajectory

scholarly journals Affordable Housing for Low-Income Communities: Between Residental and Investment

2021 ◽  
Vol 738 (1) ◽  
pp. 012059
Author(s):  
S Sunarti ◽  
N Yuliastuti ◽  
W Prananingtyas ◽  
L A Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income

scholarly journals A Pharmacist-Led Medication Coaching Program Serving Senior Residents of Low-Income Housing

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 761-762
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bacci ◽  
Joshua Akers ◽  
Katie Mahan ◽  
Geoffrey Meer ◽  
Jeffrey Kinter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Service Process ◽  
Process Outcomes

Abstract In 2015, one independent community pharmacy partnered with the local Area Agency on Aging to provide medication coaching to low-income, culturally diverse, older adults living in 6 affordable housing buildings in the Seattle area. A pilot was conducted during the 2015-2016 fiscal year to determine the need for and feasibility of the service. Process outcomes, including patient and service demographics, medication-related problems, and pharmacist interventions, were captured via the pharmacists’ patient care documentation. Pharmacists had 34 total visits with 17 unique residents who were taking an average of 8.1 medications. Pharmacists identified 97 medication-related problems, averaging 5.7 problems per resident, and performed 88 interventions, averaging 5.2 interventions per resident. The findings of this pilot demonstrated the needs and feasibility of implementing pharmacists’ services within a housing organization structure and has resulted in the continuation and growth of the program.

scholarly journals Free access to Thorax for low income countries

Thorax ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 668-668
Author(s):  
A WILLIAMSON ◽  
A KNOX ◽  
J BRITTON
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Free Access

Investing in Gentrification: The Eligibility of Gentrifying Neighborhoods for Federal Place-Based Economic Investment in U.S. Cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742110326
Author(s):  
Noli Brazil ◽  
Amanda Portier
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Economic Improvement

Place-based policies commonly target disadvantaged neighborhoods for economic improvement, typically in the form of job opportunities, business development or affordable housing. To ensure that investment is channeled to truly distressed areas, place-based programs narrow the pool of eligible neighborhoods based on a set of socioeconomic criteria. The criteria, however, may not be targeting the places most in need. In this study, we examine the relationship between neighborhood gentrification status and 2018 eligibility for the New Markets Tax Credits, Opportunity Zones, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and the Community Development Financial Institutions Program. We find that large percentages of gentrifying neighborhoods are eligible for each of the four programs, with many neighborhoods eligible for multiple programs. The Opportunity Zone program stands out, with the probability of eligibility nearly twice as high for gentrifying tracts than not-gentrifying tracts. We also found that the probability of eligibility increases with a greater percentage of adjacent neighborhoods experiencing gentrification.

scholarly journals Urban soundscape maps modelled with geo-referenced data

Noise Mapping ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Lavandier ◽  
Pierre Aumond ◽  
Saul Gomez ◽  
Catherine Dominguès
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Sound Quality ◽  
Acoustic Measurements ◽  
Propagation Models ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Eu Directive ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe noise maps that are currently proposed as part of the EU Directive are based on the calculation of the Lday, Levening and Lnight. These levels are calculated from emission and propagation models that are expensive in time. These noise maps are criticized for being distant from the perception of city users. Thus, calculation models of sound quality have been proposed, for being closer to city users’ perception. They are either based on perceptual variables, or on acoustic measurements, or on georeferenced data, the latter being often already integrated into the Geographic Information Systems of most French metropolises. Considering 89 Parisian situations, this article proposes to compare the sound quality really perceived, with those from models using geo-referenced data. It also looks at the modeling of perceptual variables that influence the sound quality, such as perceived loudness, the perceived time ratio of traffic, voices and birds. To do this, such geo-referenced data as road traffic, the presence of gardens, food shops, restaurants, bars, schools, markets, are transformed into core densities. Being quick and easy to calculate, these densities predict effectively sound quality in the urban public space. Visualization of urban soundscape maps are proposed in this paper.

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