Title: Domicology: Human Structural Abandonment Author: Hafsa Khan Abstract: Many Midwestern cities have suffered decline, resulting in widespread residential, commercial, and industrial property abandonment. In Muskegon County, 3,312 housing units are either unoccupied, not for sale, not for rent, or are not in seasonal or occasional use. The current system of private property ownership encour...

When it comes to conserving electricity, it is crucial for users to understand how much electricity is used by single appliances. However, the rather technical feedback in pure numbers and intangible units of existing energy feedback systems is not appropriate for most users. To improve this situation, we present PowerPedia, a system that aims at providing action guiding feedback beyond pure co...

This article explores new methods for gathering and analyzing spatially rich demographic data using mobile phones. It describes a pilot study (the Human Mobility Project) in which volunteers around the world were successfully recruited to share GPS and cellular tower information on their trajectories and respond to dynamic, location-based surveys using an open-source Android application. The pi...

Rent control is an economic abomination. It diverts investments away from residential rent units, it leads to their deterioration, it is responsible for urban decay such as in the South Bronx, it does not help poor tenants, it is a horrendous means of income redistribution. Yet this economic regulation is beloved of intellectuals (hot beds of pro rent control sentiment are Berkeley, Ann Arbor a...

Population censuses are commonly aggregated and mapped as uniformly distributed areal units. This leads to generalization of geographical patterns where occupied land is indistinguishable from unoccupied land. Many applications, including demographic profiling, calculation of vulnerable populations requiring access to healthcare, and electoral districting can be measured more precisely if carto...

Changes in the structural characteristics of population, such as age structure, household size, and number households indicate shifts population moving from younger towards older populations result reduction size. Former extended families have turned into a nuclear even one-person household. Shifts status, both composition, size lead to formation new housing typology. It can affect type, number...

decreasing qualitative aspects of residential environments is a real problem in recent public housing of kerman. this article is concentrated on surveying the impact of in-between spaces on residential environments quality (req), to evaluate different kinds of it and to determine interrelation of two main components: residents individual characteristics and characteristics of in-between spaces....