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State - Market - Family Triangle Revisited: Visualizing and Expanding a Housing Studies Theoretical Tool

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Tsachageas D. P., Stephens M.

Critical Housing Analysis

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2014

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vol. 1

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issue 2

63-69

EN

This paper revisits and revises the over-used State - Market - Household triangle as a theoretical analytical tool, proposing its repositioning at the centre of Housing and Welfare Studies, and reopening the debate. The goal is to eventually elaborate a dynamic visualization of the State - Market - Family triangle’s spatial and temporal transformations and transitions in housing provision, considering the relations of the actors involved. Towards this goal two conceptual adaptations are proposed. Firstly, it is suggested to add the parameter of time when assessing the triangle’s transformations from one era to another, or when comparing systems with similarities but on different evolutionary phases. Secondly, it is necessary to introduce - by default - an understanding of the triangle as a dynamic configuration, due to inter- and intra-polar shifts. It is argued that, apart from remaining a useful theoretical research tool, such visualization offers the opportunity to communicate various studies’ findings to a wider, often non-specialist audience.

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Homes integrated as an institution (total) in the support system for adults with deep intellectual disability – introduction to consideration

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Gawlik E.

Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej

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2019

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issue 27

PL

The article discusses the subject of housing for people with more severe intellectual disability – as one of the forms of support. The integrated-community flat constitutes an alternative institutional form of support for persons with more severe intellectual disability. The symbolic interactionism theory was extremely helpful in preliminary deliberations and the discussed integrated-community flats were based on the conception of total institutions. Therefore, the following questions were asked: What characteristics of a total institution does the integrated-community flat have? Can the integrated-community flat be described as having characteristics of a total institution? A qualitative case study with participant observation was used for this purpose.

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Rola Towarzystwa Budownictwa Społecznego w zaspokajaniu lokalnych potrzeb mieszkaniowych

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Biniasz-Celka D.

Studia Prawa Publicznego

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2020

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issue 2 (30)

181-201

EN

By the Act of 8 March 1990 on Municipal Self-Government, the legislator imposed a wide range of tasks to be performed by the municipality, including meeting the community’s needs in the area of municipal housing. The aim of the study is to present a legal entity that is autonomous from the commune and managed as a limited liability company, namely the Towarzystwo Budownictwa Społecznego (TBS) [Social Housing Society]. It operates under the Commercial Companies Code of 15 September 2000 within the scope resulting from Article 27(1) and (2) of the Act of 26 October 1995 on Certain Forms of Housing Promotion, thus performing the municipality’s housing tasks. TBS companies have been equipped with a legal personality primarily to become a more effective guarantor of the proper implementation of public tasks. The availability and standard of housing play a key role in meeting the housing needs of households. For those social groups that are unable to finance the purchase of a dwelling at market prices on their own, rental housing is a beneficial solution to meet their housing needs. The operations of the TBS are not subject to the principles of the market economy. The specificity of the company’s activity is that the primary and principal statutory objective cannot be profit-making, i.e. to seek to generate and maximise profits, but that any income must be allocated to statutory objectives. However, nothing stands in the way of such companies performing secondary and accessory activities at the same time, the income from which will support their non-commercial statutory objectives.

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Funkcje administracji świadczącej w demokratycznym państwie prawa na przykładzie mieszkalnictwa

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Legierska U.

Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne

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2018

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vol. 16

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issue 1 (3)

83-92

PL

The aim of this paper is to show the case of providing administration as one of the most important aspects of public administration. The aim of providing administration is to take care of people’s needs connected with education, healthcare, social assistance, culture assistance, municipal infrastructure, sport, tourism, communication and housing. What is often emphasized in the literature, accommodation is a good that is not only very expensive to obtain, but also essential for satisfying basic needs of every person. That is the reason why providing administration should take care of these needs.

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Factors Influencing Tenure Choice in European Countries

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Bazyl M.

Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics

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2009

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issue 4

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MEASURING CONSUMERISM: ATTITUDES TOWARD HOUSING OF LITHUANIAN LARGEST CITIES INHABITANTS

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Segalovicius A.

Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis

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2018

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issue 1

7-14

EN

The paper reveals attitudes of Lithuanian largest cities inhabitants towards housing with respect to consumerism expression. Consumerism is understood as a human desire, intention, and willingness to consume. In the case of consumerism – desire and intention to consume is of crucial importance, because it is based on an assumption that not an actual consumption power and actual consumption in general but an orientation towards consumption constitutes consumerism. Thus all men have a certain degree of consumerism (as consumer culture prevails in modern societies) but humans differ in the intensity / strength of consumerism expression. The expression of consumerism is taken as an analytical instrument to deal with the attitudes towards housing. Consumerism operationalization is based on consumer culture features – materialistic values, symbolism, commodification, power to consume, well-being and good life. The survey carried out in 2011 and repeated in 2016 brings us an empirical evidence that the attitudes towards housing differ with respect to the expression of consumerism. The fact that features of consumer culture exist in Lithuania enables us to make an assumption that consumerism is recognized in other social contexts in Lithuania.

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Residential Characteristics of Armed-Forces Personnel and the Urban Economy: Evidence from a Medium Sized City in Greece

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Skouras D., Arvanitidis P., Kollias C.

South East European Journal of Economics and Business

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2012

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vol. 7

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issue 1

81-91

EN

The paper explores the locational and residential decisions of Greek military households. To achieve this, primary data were collected by means of a questionnaire survey addressed to military personnel located in Volos, a medium-sized Greek city in the greater area of which a number of major military facilities are located. The study starts by examining the residential distribution of military households to consider whether clustering or dispersion is evident. Then, an attempt is made to explain the observed pattern with reference to conventional urban economics' determinants of location choice or to other factors related to the social or professional characteristics of the group. Such analysis enables us to draw some preliminary conclusions on the potential effects military facilities have on both the urban spatial structure and the housing market.

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The Effects of Housing Prices on Income Inequality in Urban China

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Zhang C., Zhang F.

Critical Housing Analysis

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2015

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vol. 2

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issue 2

11-18

EN

This paper explores the effects of housing prices on income inequality in urban China. The authors use China's interprovincial panel data for the period between 1999 and 2011 and find that there is a significant positive association between housing prices and the Gini coefficient of the income of urban residents, and that there are remarkable regional disparities.

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PROBLEMY MIESZKANIOWE WE FRANCJI W ŚWIETLE RAPORTU FUNDACJI ABBÉ PIERRE’A Z 2011 R.

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Zubrzycka-Czarnecka A.

Polityka Społeczna

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2011

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vol. 38

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issue 10(451)

29-34

EN

In comparison to other European countries, France is experiencing a respectively good housing situation. However still housing problems occur in Seine country with regard to considerable fraction of French society, people with low or medium incomes in particular. The article covers housing problems touching people with low or medium earnings embodied in the 16th report of the Fondation Abbé Pierre on poor housing in France. The limitations of the article allow only to pay attention to the synthesis of the concepts and recommendations for the housing policy in France.

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Survey of housing characteristics using drones: An experiment in the Alto das Pombas slum, Salvador de Bahia/Brazil

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Gomes J. G., Pedrassoli J. C.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2021

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vol. 40

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issue 3

169-182

EN

Since the approval of the Brazilian Federal Technical Assistance Law, whose objective is to guarantee adequate technical assistance to the residents of poor areas to improve their homes, several municipalities have implemented programs, not always successful, to improve housing in slums. Aiming to subsidize these programs implementation workflow, the present paper analyses use of drones as a tool to gather information about the physical characteristics slum households in Salvador de Bahia city, Brazil. As an experiment we flight over a single census sector within the Alto das Pombas slum, and after image processing we extracted and organized the collected data, extracting the possible information that could be applied to identify and quantify the most precarious houses that could be prioritized from a health improvement perspective. We conclude that many of the necessary data needed, on the urbanistic scale in Brazilian slums, can benefit from drone photogrammetry at low cost and fast execution.

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Ewolucja polityki mieszkaniowej w Galicji na przełomie XIX i XX wieku (zarys problematyki)

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Broński K.

Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie

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2011

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issue 870

71-88

EN

The author has attempted to outline the issue of housing and the evolution of housing policy in Galicia at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. Such factors as considerable demographical development in this part of Polish lands in the second half of 19th century and the need to improve the living conditions of the indigent forced the state authorities and autonomous Galician authorities to address the matter. In the Habsburg Monarchy, of which Galicia was a crown land, the public authorities became aware of the housing problem only after the beginning of 20th century. Recognising the need to improve housing conditions, the Austrian government implemented housing reform in a few ways, e.g. they introduced tax allowances and proper legal regulations. Beyond legislative activity, both authorities also took the step of building houses with cheap apartments for their own officials (of different categories) and employees. Municipalities supported the cheap housing associations that had emerged – either by concessions while giving up their own properties, or by joining these organisations as a member. Despite increased activity on the part of state authorities in housing policy and considerable involvement in different public institutions, the housing issue in Galicia remained unsolved. However, the housing conditions changed for the better, especially in bigger cities.

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Ocena petycji w przedmiocie zmiany ustawy o spółdzielniach mieszkaniowych, ustawy o petycjach, ustawy o cmentarzach i chowaniu zmarłych, ustawy o radiofonii i telewizji

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Sobieraj K.

Zeszyty Prawnicze BAS

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2022

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issue 3(75)

213-226

EN

The petition comprises five separate proposals, including a petition for the establishment of a tenant supervision institution, for the introduction into the Act of Petitions of a provision obliging the legislator to consider any petition that meets formal requirements. The author is critical of the proposals for unrelated legislative changes postulated in the petition. They are difficult to implement, unfounded, inconsistent with the current legal order and sometimes also unconstitutional. They harm media freedom, the right to petition and the freedom of churches and religious associations to manage cemeteries.

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An Analysis of Chosen Aspects of Regional Potentials of Housing Economy with Particular Focus on Social and Economic Dimension

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Mach Ł.

Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i prognozy

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2016

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issue 4(46)

31-38

EN

This article presents factors which influence creation of regional housing economy potential. Such factors, according to public statistics, include heat engineering, housing benefits, renovations and modernizations, quantity and quality of web devices and status of housing resources. The author has chosen some factors, from those mentioned above, taking into consideration sustainable regional development with particular focus on social and economic dimension. In the calculative part, the author used multidimensional comparative analysis allowing for parametrization and analysis of the examined areas. Application of multidimensional comparative analysis showed potential of housing economy development in the chosen areas related to housing resources. The use of multi-criteria approach allows the simultaneous consideration of several dimensions of regional development, which allows the calculation of an integral multidimensional development index.

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W artykule przedstawiono czynniki wpływające na tworzenie potencjałów regionalnych gospodarki mieszkaniowej. Do czynników tych według statystyk publicznych zalicza się ciepłownictwo, dodatki mieszkaniowe, ubytki w mieszkaniach, remonty i modernizacje, ilość i jakość urządzeń sieciowych oraz stan zasobu mieszkaniowego. Wymienione czynniki wykorzystano do analizy gospodarki mieszkaniowej województw, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem wymiaru społecznego i gospodarczego. W artykule w części obliczeniowej wykorzystano wielowymiarową analizę porównawczą, pozwalającą na parametryzację i analizę badanych województw. Uwzględnienie analizy wielowymiarowej w badaniu rozwoju regionalnego, daje m.in. możliwość obliczenia integralnego wskaźnika rozwoju.

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Housing Demand in the Polish Peoples’ Republic

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Jarmuż M., Jarosz D.

Studia Historiae Oeconomicae

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2013

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vol. 31

57-68

EN

Although historians and social scientists devoted considerable attention to issues related to housing in the Polish Peoples’ Republic era, many problems still need further research. The crucial problem of the paper is to find an answer to the question: what did Poles have to do in the period between 1944/45 and 1989 in order to obtain housing? The answer given is the effect of several years of primary source research which encompassed archival material of assorted types and origins.

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Popyt mieszkaniowy a przestrzeń miejska – przegląd literatury

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Głuszak M., Marona B.

Ekonomia - Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wroclawiu

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2013

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issue 3 (24)

119-133

EN

The article discusses housing demand. We focus on disequilibrium of a urban housing market and location derived segmentation. Based on literature review, we identify reasons behind housing mobility and housing location choice at household level. In the second part of the article we focus on the interaction between housing demand of urban development patterns (especially spatial aspects of it). The main objective of this paper is to show the relationship between two major dimensions of individual housing demand: (i) mobility choice and (ii) location choice and spatial transformations within the metropolitan area. The article is a critical analysis of the literature. We attempt to identify the main factors affecting the demand for housing in a specific metropolitan area. Previous studies point to a number of factors affecting the residential mobility of households. The most important are: the life cycle, relative deprivation, social capital, gender and economic situation. Studies show that these factors are correlated and are subject to mutual interactions. Reflections on diversity and segmentation of metropolitan housing markets lead to the conclusion that the local housing market can be seen as a nested structure. Each metropolitan housing market is divided into submarkets − based on location and housing services quality. The housing search is therefore sequential and hierarchical in nature. Among the most important factors determining the household choice of location within the local housing market are: economic capital, social status, spatial relationships, lifestyle, racial segregation and the quality of schools. The synthesis of the results leads to the conclusion that the demand for housing is related to certain spatial phenomena occurring in metropolitan areas. We highlight four aspects in particular:– – communication system (mass transit, road system, parking in the city center), – spatial order, – access to schools and public services (excessive density of housing and inadequate social infrastructure), – urban sprawl. Due to the information asymmetry and inelastic supply in housing market subsegments it can cause persistent imbalances and emergence of deprived areas within the urban structure.

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The “Ignored Challenge”, Urban Sprawl and its Negative Impacts in Poland: A Comparison between the EU and U.S.

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Ponce J.

Studia Iuridica

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2016

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vol. 63

161-174

EN

Nieład urbanizacyjny to ważki problem w Polsce i Unii Europejskiej, a także w USA. Niniejszy artykuł analizuje koncepcje nieładu urbanizacyjnego, jego motywy i negatywne efekty środowiskowe, socjalne i ekonomiczne w kontekście UE, posługując się jako studium przypadkiem Polski. Badania dotyczą możliwych sposobów kontroli nieładu urbanizacyjnego i promowania niewielkich miast przez właściwe interwencje publiczne, ochronę dobrze rozumianego interesu publicznego, biorąc także pod uwagę doświadczenia amerykańskie takie jak Nowa Urbanistyka i Inteligentny Rozwój oraz niektóre doświadczenia europejskie.

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Incremental change in housing regimes : some theoretical propositions with empirical illustrations

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Kohl S., Bengtsson B.

Critical Housing Analysis

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2020

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vol. 7

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issue 1

15-24

EN

The durable structures of housing and housing institutions are often subject to long-term processes of incremental change. Nevertheless, housing studies have largely focused either on static snapshots of policies or, more recently, on the inertia of institutional path dependence, while processes of incremental change have been almost entirely neglected. Political scientists (Streeck/Thelen/Mahoney) have proposed a typology of patterns of incremental institutional change, and this paper explores the applicability of this typology to housing structures and housing institutions. We draw on empirical illustrations from the housing literature to show how five types of change – layering, conversion, displacement, drift, exhaustion – apply to housing structures and institutions. We conclude with some general observations on how the typology can be used in further studies of developments in national housing regimes.

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Svépomocné bydlení v době pozdního státního socialismu: responsibilizace, ideologie a beton

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Hoření Samec T., Balgová I., Vacková B.

Studia Ethnologica Pragensia

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2020

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vol. 1

58-77

EN

Self-help housing has been proposed as a solution to provide qualitatively adequate and affordable housing not only nowadays, but also during the late state socialism in the 1970s and 1980s in the former Czechoslovakia. In this article, we focus on how the self-help housing provision was during that era linked with the responsibilisation of households, a technique of governance usually associated with neoliberal regimes. On the case of self-help housing construction in town Myjava, which was supported by local authorities and initiated by local company eager to attract workers, we show then eventually main burden for management and risks steaming from the construction was carried by the individuals and their (extended) families. Seemingly the ideological contradiction of this individualistic solution was resolved through rigorous standardization of construction projects, which enabled to maintain a self-help housing as one of the regime’s tools for solving the housing question. We argue that in this respect, in the shift of responsibility from the formal institutions to the individuals, the housing system displays continuity between the late socialist and capitalist regimes, thus contributing to emerging body of literature which problematise the strict dichotomy between the socialist and capitalist eras.

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Orange or Pink? Colours, Houses and Modernity in Rural Romania

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Iancău M.

International Review of Social Research

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2011

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vol. 1

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issue 2

85-98

EN

The saturated flashy colors used in exterior paintings of houses in the Romanian rural environment represent a discussion topic for on-lookers, whether they are local inhabitants, tourists or specialists interested in urban planning. The same colors are perceived differently and express different significances, denoting more than mere chromatic nuances. What are these significances and what role do they play in inter-human relationships? I have tried to answer this question by analyzing the interviews gathered in the summers of 2008 and 2009 in two touristic areas, Gheţari Plateau (Apuseni Mountains) and Apuseni Mountains (Bukovina). The results point to identity-defining elements shown by the owners of these houses in terms of aspirations towards modernity and the spectacular. They wish to escape the label of ‘provincial’ and to be connected to the ‘global world’. Alternatively, many tourists are disappointed by the widespread usage of these colors in almost all the regions of the country and consider that as a process of homogenization, which erases local specific traits that one would expect to see in these areas.

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Designing Life after the Storm: Improvisations in Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction as Socio-Moral Practice

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Cajilig P. G.

Avant

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2017

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issue 8

EN

If there is any endeavor so demanding of human creativity, it is the remaking of lives and property after disaster. However, post-disaster recovery is considered the greatest failure in disaster management, and within this field, post-disaster housing reconstruction is the most insufficiently investigated practice. Furthermore, studies of disaster management attribute failure to top-down and technocratic approaches that often overlook the agency, capacities, and moral priorities of those directly affected. In contrast, this paper attends to those displaced by disaster as creative and moral agents who manage to carry on with life despite their socio-economic and political vulnerabilities by drawing from theory in anthropology, disaster studies, and cognitive psychology. Through examining how inhabitants of a post-Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) resettlement site transform their housing to negotiate multiple and vague rules and regulations, I entangle myself with literature that assumes that the creativity of design lies in the capacity of individuals to improvise according to their values and in response to those of others, within a world that is continually unfolding. I also assume that improvisation is contingent upon processes of cognitive innovation in which social relations operate as indispensable intellectual resources for grasping and mobilizing knowledge that would give inhabitants of resettlement housing the best possible chance of attaining their hopes, dreams, and ambitions. Consequently, I propose that viewing creativity as an improvisational process highlights the agentic potential of design in even the bleakest and most quotidian of settings. My own hope is to extend the possibilities for correspondence between built environment practitioners and those who, because of their subaltern positionalities, tend to be overlooked by the field of post-disaster housing reconstruction and yet must live through the consequences of its practice.

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