Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Bibliography: leaf 135. / M.Arch.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: p. 163-165. / Although social conflicts in corridor housing have long been acknowledged, few useful alternatives have been developed. The corridor remains a standard of apartment design. As a catalyst to the development of new alternatives, this thesis examines the corridor in detail, and determines some basic principles for the design of more socially coherent access space in apartment housing. The first section of the thesis isolates twelve major problems of corridor living. It then discusses their effect on the social and spatial qualities of the apartment environment. And in response to these problems, it derives principles for the redesign of this environment through an examination of other forms of housing in which access from the street to the front door is more direct and more coherent. In the second section, these principles are applied to the analysis and redesign of one of the few existing alternatives to the internal corridor in apartment housing: the outside access gallery. In this analysis, a group of the more important gallery access projects is examined to determine how well they each fulfill the twelve principles isolated in the first section. Where these principles remain unfulfilled, alternatives are proposed and illustrated. Together, these principles sketch out a larger design project which attempts to fulfill all of the proposed principles. / by John D.T. Graham. / M.Arch.

Thesis (M.E.F.E.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). "April 2007." "Fire engineering research report." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-179). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M. S.)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. / Mark Cottle, Committee Member ; Richard Dagenhart, Committee Member ; Michael A. Dobbins, Committee Chair. Includes bibliographical references.

The Vancouver apartment market in the analysis period of 1960 to 1970 has been evolutionary and characterized by fundamental and massive change. The mix of housing starts has moved away from single family predominance to multi-family predominance. Land costs have increased at an accelerated pace as compared to the general economy or as compared to the total cost of housing. Rents have increased at a rate in excess of the cost of living. Tenants have formed organization fronts to oppose landlords. Interest rates have increased rapidly, thus upsetting a balance between yield and debt costs. Housing preferences have changed. Government regulations and federal taxes have altered and thus changed the rules of the game and the net returns to investors. The landlord and tenant act has weakened the position of the landlord, and government intervention, either direct or indirect, has become a very real and increasing influence on the housing market The result has been reflected in changes in the attitudes of investors first towards the increasingly speculative and sometimes irrational bull market that peaked in 1970 and lately to an equally massive and corrective bear market that has yet to run its full course. This study is an analysis of 69 properties located in the lower mainland area. The sample is comprised of both concrete and frame structures ranging in age from one year to sixty years and in size from 11 suites and a $15,000 annual income to 311 suites and a $615,000 annual income. The period under analysis is primarily the years 1960 to 1970 and the area analysed is essentially Vancouver, Burnaby and Mew Westminster. The purpose of the study is to analyse a representative sampling of properties with respect to their operational costs over a period of time and with respect to the yields that investors have obtained on these properties. The study is useful in that data of this magnitude have not been collated outside of the assessors' offices of various municipalities and such data that have been available to the assessors have not been analysed in this manner. The results of the study have shown that a number of rules-of-thumb currently in use in the analysis of apartment properties are misconceptions that often lead to erroneous conclusions. It has also been shown that the entrance of many unsophisticated investors into the market for the primary purpose of tax avoidance ha resulted in a very great bull market that was corrected and is still being corrected by the combination of four basic factors; the economic slowdown, the White Paper, high interest rates, and the change in the types of alternative housing available to the tenant, The study also gives insights into formative factors, such as indirect and direct government intervention into housing, that will shape the apartment market of the 1970's, A limiting factor in the study is the fact that the information required is of a personal and highly secretive nature and thus difficult to obtain. The result has been that the sample is not large enough and it has been drawn from sources which were co-operative and does not necessarily represent a random sample of the existing apartment property stock.¹ However, any bias does not invalidate the general conclusions obtained but only results in overrepresentation in some areas. In general, the information obtained was taken directly from audited operating statements thus alleviating most inconsistencies that may result from a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts. ¹37 of the 69 properties in this study are owned by doctors. The remaining properties are owned by contractors, financial institutions, owner-managers, full time property investors, individuals or corporations who derive a substantial proportion of their income from property, and other professionals such as lawyers. The basic conclusions arrived at are that those individual investors who purchase property on a sound economic basis and operate on a sound basis will make money while those investors who purchase on the sole basis of tax shelter and who operate haphazardly often suffer heavy capital losses. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

The growth in numbers of large apartment buildings adjacent to the urban core in the period 1955 - 1965 provides striking evidence of a recent change in urban residential structure. Several hypotheses have been advanced in this thesis and tested in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia. The research indicates a close correlation between recent high-rise construction and the increasing numbers of persons, in both relative and absolute terms, who form small household units and have few family responsibilities. Such persons are either young adults or elderly retired individuals. In either case the common requirements of a small dwelling unit and available out-of-home activities are noted. The adjacent location of the Central Business District appears critical to the siting of a concentration of high-rise apartment buildings. Both reasons given by West End apartment dwellers for their residence within the West End and their recorded activity patterns indicate the strong drawing force of the Central Business District employment, shopping, entertainment and recreation services. Indeed, daily activity patterns of the West End apartment dweller indicate few connections outside the West End - Central Business area. Thesis research indicates that periods of apartment growth appear closely related to government legislation, new techniques in construction and to available capital. Three theories proposed in previous investigations of central residential areas are negated by thesis research: 1). Public redevelopment schemes have not initiated West End apartment construction. Private developers have seen the market for middle-income residences adjacent to the core and have exploited it without public redevelopment capital being necessary. 2). High-rise construction does not necessarily involve an increase in population density adjacent to the core. Within the limited area of the West End different regional demographic patterns are noted. Regions of previously existing high-density converted buildings have not experienced major increments in the total population as apartments replace earlier multi-family dwellings. The only areas to show appreciable gains were those in which apartments replaced earlier single family homes. Clearly population growth is related to past land use rather than to only recent apartment construction. 3). Apartment residents were noted to be persons who had lived, at least for the previous fifteen years, in central city locations. Few were returnees from suburbia, as indicated by previous authors. Data for this thesis was drawn from three sources: existing literature on urban residential locations, questionnaire study of West End apartment residents, and from apartment developers. Based upon this study of inner-city residences, several inferences have been drawn that relate both to future West End development and to urban residential theory. Within the West End, apartments locate adjacent to the maximum number of amenities. The lack of views and adjacent park areas in the central region of the West End have discouraged private high-rise investment. Some alternate land use, possibly town-house or senior citizen projects, could be instituted to revitalize the central area. Two models of inner-city residences are presented. One defines the characteristics of the inner-city high-rise dweller, the other, the sequent occupance of the area. Three stages of inner-city residential growth are noted: a period of upper and middle-income single family home settlement; conversion of single family homes into multi-family dwellings for all income levels; private redevelopment of the area for middle-income oriented apartments. The forces influencing this change were urban core location and expansion, transportation changes, available land, available capital, and the period of settlement. During the past fifteen years the construction of middle-income high-rise apartments adjacent to the urban core has been noted in Vancouver, as in other North American cities. The initial demand for this form of accommodation and its continued expansion are related to the expanding segment of the population who desire residences adjacent to urban core activity. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

When entering and settling into adulthood in a less than ideal developing world, youth with minimal resources continuously need to manoeuvre between opportunities and their living situation. This research project explores the phenomenon of youth residing in the inner city of Pretoria to understand their housing situation through the lens of homelessness and personal development. A qualitative field study, embedded in the research paradigm ethnomethodology, was conducted through interviews and observations with low-income, young males. The research has shown that respondents do not see themselves as ‘homeless’, even though the essence of what a ‘home’ means to them does not resonate with their perception of the inner city. Still, the various housing typologies and channels of socio-economic support that are accessed provide enough reason and resources to retain their position in the inner city. The impact of these negotiations on the identity and overall development of the respondents need further investigation - beyond what the research has suggested.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität des Saarlendes Saarbrücken, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

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