Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing

2007  | 232 pages | PDF | 2,9 MB

Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is a guide for housing developers, advocates, public agency staff, and the financial community that offers specific guidance on incorporating green building strategies into the design, construction, and operation of affordable housing developments. A completely revised and expanded second edition of the groundbreaking 1999 publication, this new book focuses on topics of specific relevance to affordable housing including:

how green building adds value to affordable housing

the integrated design process

best practices in green design for affordable housing

green operations and maintenance

innovative funding and finance

emerging programs, partnerships, and policies

Edited by national green affordable housing expert Walker Wells and featuring a foreword by Matt Petersen, president and chief executive officer of Global Green USA, the book presents 12 case studies of model developments and projects, including rental, home ownership, special needs, senior, self-help, and co-housing from around the United States. Each case study describes the unique green features of the development, discusses how they were successfully incorporated, considers the project's financing and savings associated with the green measures, and outlines lessons learned.

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Courtyard Housing : Past, Present, Future

Courtyard Housing : Past, Present, Future.

 248 pages | PDF | 10 Mb

Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe where the model has been reinterpreted. This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that she courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past

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Innovative Public Housing

Innovative Public Housing

217 pages | PDF | 128.80 mb

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DENSITY IS HOME

DENSITY IS HOME

HOUSING BY a+t RESEARCH GROUP

 English/Español

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Multi-Family Housing: The Art of Sharing

Multi-Family Housing: The Art of Sharing

Michael J. Crosbie

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Courtyard Housing: Past, Present, Future

Courtyard Housing: Past, Present, Future

By Brian Edwards

Spon Press | 2005-11-14 | 248 pages | PDF | 10 Mb

Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe where the model has been reinterpreted. This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that she courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past 

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The Cohousing Handbook

The Cohousing Handbook

by Chris ScottHanson , Kelly ScottHanson

Cohousing offers an end to the isolation of the single-family suburban home. Balancing community and personal privacy, cohousing is a chance to create a modern village in an urban or rural setting. Residents own their own homes and can gather in common areas to share meals and socialize. An increasingly popular form of housing in both Europe and North America, cohousing addresses and alleviates many of the demands and pressures of modern life-everything from day care to aging at home is easier with the help of your neighbors.

As pioneers in the development of cohousing in North America, Chris and Kelly ScottHanson offer individuals and new groups a wealth of information and practical hints on how the process works. The Cohousing Handbook covers every element that goes into the creation of a cohousing project, including group processes, land acquisition, finance and budgets, construction, development professionals, design considerations, permits, approvals and membership. This revised and updated edition includes an expanded marketing chapter, as well as a foreword by Gifford Pinchot.

A source of comfort and inspiration for those who want to create their ideal community, The Cohousing Handbook is a groundbreaking and practical guide to building a better society one neighborhood at a time-a must-have for the growing number of people who want to create a cohousing community.

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Row Houses - A Housing Typology

Row Houses - A Housing Typology

Gunter  Pfeifer  and  Per  Brauneck

This book is devoted to the various types of row house, a particularly widespread form of residential structure. A general discussion of the row as organizing principlethe row as urban building block, linear space, ways of handling cornersis followed by the systematic presentation of the different types.

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