Energy vulnerability is a growing concern in many OECD countries post-millennium. An increasing number of residents go without heating or cooling necessities to manage the financial strains energy costs, low wage growth, and rising housing costs. Housing design quality contributes significantly dwelling's use resident's potential with good orientation enabling passive climate control or, altern...

This paper discusses the attribution of an anonymous and unbuilt 1859 plan for a four-storey apartment building with commercial spaces on ground floor, located site old town walls in Trogir. It proposes Josip Slade as architect plan, interpreting Slade’s architectural language development his approach to heritage. An analysis project historical socio-political spatial context, moreover, support...

The quality of data obtainable by questionnaire from residents of a common lodging house was explored by comparing the answers received by questioning such men on two or three occasions six months apart. Consistency between the answers obtained on different occasions was good for men who already knew the interviewer well as their medical officer but poor otherwise.

The morphological, structural and content elements that form an invariant model of innovative multifunctional typology “house-yard” are considered. continuity this in relation to the historical urban neighborhood development as a prototype is established. possibility creating new typology, focused on modern methods construction actualization characteristics sustainable environment substantiated

This paper introduces a first outline of a typology of distributed knowledge co-creation in virtual communities based on Porter‘s typology of virtual communities. The typology is based on empirical results from the analyses of social media, and a discussion of case study results from India proves the adaptability as well as usefulness of the typology. At the same time, the case study serves as ...