scholarly journals Exploit the Ocean for Extra Housing Supply: A Comparison between the Floating House and Houseboat

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Housing Shortage ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Home Prices ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Alternative Solutions

The rapid development of coastal areas often leads to housing shortage, subsequently resulting in poor living quality and unaffordable home prices. People thus start to set their sights on the sea. The floating house and houseboat are unique alternative solutions to the said housing crisis in major coastal cities. This article reviews and compares the characteristics of the floating house and houseboat and recommended a few directions for preliminary works that should be completed before launching these kinds of housing projects in coastal waters.

Exploit the Ocean for Extra Housing Supply: A Comparison between the Floating House and Houseboat

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Housing Shortage ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Home Prices ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Alternative Solutions

The rapid development of coastal areas often leads to housing shortage, subsequently resulting in poor living quality and unaffordable home prices. People thus start to set their sights on the sea. The floating house and houseboat are unique alternative solutions to the said housing crisis in major coastal cities. This article reviews and compares the characteristics of the floating house and houseboat and recommended a few directions for preliminary works that should be completed before launching these kinds of housing projects in coastal waters.

scholarly journals Use of Timber Prefab System for Ensuring Sustainable Residential Housing Supply in New Zealand

10.29007/9l6k ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Ansari ◽  
Temitope Egbelakin ◽  
Jasper Mbachu
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Housing Shortage ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
Residential Housing ◽  
Acceptable Risks ◽  
Increasing Demand

New Zealand housing shortage requires effective approaches to address the increasing demand over the next twenty years. Given the current situation of the New Zealand’s housing crisis, it is almost impossible to meet that demand by using the traditional methods of construction. Offsite manufacturing system can help improve housing supply capability in New Zealand. With timber being a very sustainable resource and abundant in New Zealand, timber prefab system offers the most economically and environmentally feasible solution to the housing supply challenges in New Zealand. This research aims to investigate a method that New Zealand construction industry can adopt in the offsite manufacturing system at a national scale to improve the residential housing crisis. Ten interviews and ten questionnaires were conducted with clients, designers, prefabricators, and suppliers to identify the risks and required actions in order to achieve successful application of the system. The impacts of several factors on the system such as barriers, enablers and sustainability aspects of using the timber prefab system were studied as part the research objectives. The results reveal the most sustainable method of residential housing supply in the New Zealand within the acceptable risks, productivity and having a secure government investment support.

WAVE CLIMATE OF THE BLACK SEA’S COASTAL WATERS DURING THE LAST THREE DECADES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fedor Gippius ◽  
Fedor Gippius ◽  
Stanislav Myslenkov ◽  
Stanislav Myslenkov ◽  
Elena Stoliarova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Cell Size ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Wind Wave ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Wave Model ◽  
Wave Climate ◽  
Computational Grid ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Wave Parameters

This study is focused on the alterations and typical features of the wind wave climate of the Black Sea’s coastal waters since 1979 till nowadays. Wind wave parameters were calculated by means of the 3rd-generation numerical spectral wind wave model SWAN, which is widely used on various spatial scales – both coastal waters and open seas. Data on wind speed and direction from the NCEP CFSR reanalysis were used as forcing. The computations were performed on an unstructured computational grid with cell size depending on the distance from the shoreline. Modeling results were applied to evaluate the main characteristics of the wind wave in various coastal areas of the sea.

scholarly journals BEACH PLANFORM EQUILIBRIUM, APPLICATION AND METHODOLOGIES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCY CONSIDERATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Mohamed Dabees
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Equilibrium Conditions ◽  
Long Term Stability ◽  
Open Coast ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Water Elevations ◽  
Added Uncertainty ◽  
Evaluation Parameters

Climate change and sea level rise (SLR) present a challenge and added uncertainty for managing coastal areas. Many coastal cities and developed coastal areas are assessing future vulnerabilities to SLR and developing adaptation plans for improved resiliency. Equilibrium conditions for beach planform can be critical to the long-term stability of beaches and dunes fronting coastal cities. In many cases, resiliency and adaptation programs for beachfront areas are based on assumptions of evaluating scenarios of higher water elevations and hydrodynamic forcing under present time topographic and bathymetric conditions. These evaluation parameters suggest that the coastline and existing morphological features are near equilibrium condition and are expected to remain near similar equilibrium over the SLR scenarios under consideration. Such assumptions may be limited to open coast conditions where the beach and the developed coastal planform follows theoretical open coast conditions or constant equilibrium planform. This paper discusses factors influencing beach planform along the Florida Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines and proposes conceptual methodologies in various applications.Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/gWsbmi6VIo0

scholarly journals Delivering Social Housing: An Overview of the Housing Crisis in Dublin

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valesca Lima
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Family Homelessness ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Direct Construction ◽  
The Social

This paper explores the responses to the housing crisis in Dublin, Ireland, by analysing recent housing policies promoted to prevent family homelessness. I argue that private rental market subsides have played an increasing role in the provision of social housing in Ireland. Instead of policies that facilitate the construction of affordable housing or the direct construction of social housing, current housing policies have addressed the social housing crisis by encouraging and relying excessively on the private market to deliver housing. The housing crisis has challenged governments to increase the social housing supply, but the implementation of a larger plan to deliver social housing has not been effective, as is evidenced by the rapid decline of both private and social housing supply and the increasing number of homeless people in Dublin.

Transmedia Journalism and the City

2018 ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Renira Rampazzo Gambarato
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The City ◽  
Alternative Solutions

This chapter discusses the participatory flair of transmedia journalism within the concreteness of urban spaces by examining The Great British Property Scandal (TGBPS), a transmedia experience designed to inform and engage the public and offer alternative solutions to the long-standing housing crisis in the United Kingdom. The theoretical framework is centered on transmedia storytelling applied to journalism in the scope of urban spaces and participatory culture. The methodological approach of the case study is based on Gambarato's (2013) transmedia analytical model and applied to TGBPS to depict how transmedia strategies within urban spaces collaborated to influence social change. TGBPS is a pertinent example of transmedia journalism within the liquid society, integrating mobile technologies into daily processes with the potential for enhanced localness, customization, and mobility within the urban fabric.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Mediterranean Sea Water in Vicinity of Tangier Region, North of Morocco

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (20) ◽  
pp. 1291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imane Bourouhou ◽  
Farida Salmoun ◽  
Yusuf Gedik
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Bacteriological Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Seawater Quality ◽  
The Mediterranean

Coastal areas play a crucial role in maintaining the ecological balance of ecosystems and developing the social and economic wellbeing of the countries bordering it. However, the pressure on both terrestrial and marine resources, the use of oceans as a wastes deposit, the growth of population and the increasing of urbanization and human activities in coastal areas are all causes for marine and coastal degradation. The present situation constitutes a significant danger in many places. As an example, the pollution of the coastal waters in the Mediterranean has increased in recent years. Industrialization, tourism and ports activities along the coastline of the Mediterranean are the main sources of many pollutants that have effects on human’s health and environment. So that, it is very important to examine seawater quality in order to protect the marine and coastal areas from degradation. Hence, comes the need to consider a physicochemical and bacteriological study to evaluate the quality of Tangier coastal seawater using the Water Quality Index (WQI). A campaign of 25 sampling points was conducted and the results of the WQI calculation have highlighted the Tangier water was between medium and bad.

scholarly journals Assessing coastal vulnerability index of tourism site: the case of Mataram Coast

2020 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Aninda W. Rudiastuti ◽  
Ati Rahadiati ◽  
Ratna S. Dewi ◽  
Dewayany Soetrisno ◽  
Erwin Maulana
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Coastal Vulnerability ◽  
Coastal Vulnerability Index ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Tourism Destinations

Many coastal areas and infrastructure suffered from unprecedented hazards such as storms, flooding, and erosion. Thus, it is increasing the vulnerability of urban coastal areas aggravated with the absence of coastal green infrastructure. Given the state of coastal environments, there is a genuine need to appraise the vulnerability of coastal cities on the basis of the latest projected climate scenarios and existing condition. Hence, to asses, the vulnerability level of Mataram coastal, the Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) accompanied by pre-assessment of readiness to climate disruption. The CVI used to map coastal into five classes of using GIS. As a case study, this approach applied to Mataram City: one of the tourism destinations in Lombok. Two of sub-districts in Mataram City, Ampenan and Sekarbela, laying in the shorelines have undergone coastal flooding and erosion. One of them, Ampenan sub-district, experienced flooding due to river-discharge and became the most severe location during inundation. Results indicated that along ±9000 meters of Mataram coast possess vulnerability level in moderate to very high-risk level. The assessment also showed that sea-level rise is not the only critical issue but also geomorphology and shoreline changes, the existence of green infrastructure, also human activity parameters took important part to be assessed.

A global approach to hierarchical classification of coastal waters at different spatial scales: the NEA case

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Juanes ◽  
Araceli Puente ◽  
Elvira Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Global Approach ◽  
Ne Atlantic ◽  
Wide Range

Ecological classification of coastal waters has become increasingly important as one of the basic issues in the biology of conservation. Management and protection of coastal areas take place at different spatial scales. Thus, proper classification schemes should integrate equivalent information at various levels of definition in order to show its feasibility as a useful tool for assessment of coastal environments at the required scales. In this work, a global approach applied to the classification of the NE Atlantic coast is analysed in order to discuss pros and cons regarding different conceptual and technical issues for effective implementation of such a management tool. Using the hierarchical system applied at three different geographic scales: Biogeographic (NE Atlantic coast), Regional (Bay of Biscay) and Local (Cantabria region), five different topics were considered for debating strengths and weaknesses of the methodological alternatives at those spatial scales, using for validation the rocky shore macroalgae as a representative biological element of benthic communities. These included: (i) the spatial scales; (ii) the physical variables and indicators; (iii) the classification methodologies; (iv) the biological information; and (v) the validation procedure. Based on that analysis, the hierarchical support system summarized in this paper provides a management framework for classification of coastal systems at the most appropriate resolution, applicable to a wide range of coastal areas. Further applications of the physical classification for management of biodiversity in different environmental scenarios are also analysed.

The housing crisis

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Nick Gallent
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Housing Cost ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter begins by detailing the outward characteristics of the housing crisis including income to housing cost ratios. It then looks at different ‘framings’ of that crisis, as a product of inadequate supply or a refunctioning of housing’s purpose, manifest in new patterns of consumption. The chapter then goes on to explore the nature of housing supply – a combination of new homes and second hand housing - and the relationship between planning regulation and market processes. The wider political economy of housing is then explored ahead of a more detailed account of housing inequalities and the onward structure of the book.

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