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Christine E. Stauber, Dajun Dai, Sydney R. Chan, Jeremy E. Diem, Scott R. Weaver and Richard Rothenberg
While DeKalb County, Georgia, offers free radon screening for all eligible residents, portions of the county remain relatively under-sampled. This pilot study focused on 10% of the census tracts in the county with the lowest proportion of radon testing; ...
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Hicham Mharzi Alaoui, Hassan Radoine, Jérôme Chenal, Hassan Yakubu and Salwa Bajja
With the rapid urbanization occurring across African cities, the emergence of a middle class is exerting its influence on the urban form and structure. Matching their social status and drawing on global influences, the housing characteristics of this cla...
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Mohammad Ramin Amiryar and Junichiro Asano
This study examines the transformation in housing typology from low-rise to apartment buildings in the formal neighborhood of Kabul city. These formal neighborhoods were developed according to plans from 1978. The majority of these neighborhoods were des...
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Liujia Chen, Xiaojing Yao, Yalan Liu, Yujiao Zhu, Wei Chen, Xizhi Zhao and Tianhe Chi
Diverse urban environmental elements provide health and amenity value for residents. People are willing to pay a premium for a better environment. Thus, it is essential to assess the benefits and values of these environmental elements. However, limited b...
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Xiaohong Deng, Lei Gong, Yanfang Gao, Xiaoqing Cui and Ke Xu
Population mobility and attendant issues, especially housing issues, have a major impact on sustainable urban development. In the urbanization process, a number of micro-communities with various social characteristics have come to compose the rural migra...
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Zhan Peng and Ryo Inoue
Interest in studying the urban real estate market, especially in investigating the relationship between house prices and related housing characteristics, is rapidly growing. However, this increasing attention is handicapped by a limited consideration of ...
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Hugo Castro Noblejas, Jesús Vías Martínez and Matías F. Mérida Rodríguez
The landscape is a factor considered when choosing to purchase a dwelling, and, therefore, it influences the price of the real estate market. However, it is difficult to measure and assess its role, since it has a series of features that work in an integ...
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Gwan-Hee Son, Beom-Soo Kim, Seung-Je Cho and Young-Jun Park
As the demand for agricultural electric vehicles increases, it is becoming important to conduct noise reduction in consideration of the characteristics of an electric powertrain. This study was conducted to optimize the shape design of gearbox housing fo...
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Amanda Howell, Kristina Currans, Steven Gehrke, Gregory Norton, Kelly Clifton
Planning for affordable housing is challenged by development policies that assess transportation impacts based on methodologies that often do not distinguish between the travel patterns of residents of market-rate housing and those living in affordable u...
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Babatunde E. Jaiyeoba, Abimbola O Asojo, Bayo Amole
Pág. 101 - 118
Low-income housing is often studied in a top down approach by experts and researchers. The Ogbere case study in the outskirts of Ibadan represents housing built by low-income people and therefore a context to understand how the poor provides housing. It ...
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Bartolomé Deyà-Tortella, Celso Garcia, William Nilsson, Dolores Tirado
Pág. 1 - 14
This study analyses water prices and residential water consumption using micro data for three different housing typologies in Calvia with contrasting household characteristics. We examine the effect of a price reform of the sanitation fee (implemented in...
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Bartolomé Deyà-Tortella, Celso Garcia, William Nilsson and Dolores Tirado
This study analyses water prices and residential water consumption using micro data for three different housing typologies in Calvià with contrasting household characteristics. We examine the effect of a price reform of the sanitation fee (implemented in...
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Victor Bunster and Masa Noguchi
Global increases in the demand for energy are imposing strong pressures over the environment while compromising the capacity of emerging economies to achieve sustainable development. In this context, implementation of effective strategies to reduce consu...
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Chandra, H.P.,Limanto, S.
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Trust is the willingness to rely upon the actions of others, to be dependent upon them, and thus to be vulnerable to their actions. In housing construction, where contract is usually awarded without tender, trust of the developer to the contractor ...
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Denisard Cneio de Oliveira Alves,Joe Akira Yoshino,Paula Carvalho Pereda,Carla Jucá Amrein
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Hedonic modeling has become a benchmark for pricing real assets with several intrinsic characteristics. This work tests also others dimensions for asset pricing: the quality of life in the housing neighborhood and macroeconomic variables. The data is abo...
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Saira Abid, Guoqing Shi, Abid Hussain and Abdul Rauf
The construction of hydropower projects is increasingly prevalent worldwide, particularly in the context of climate change mitigation. Community displacement resulting from the construction of these projects raises significant questions about the post-re...
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Xiaoli Yue, Yang Wang, Yabo Zhao and Hongou Zhang
The traditional methods of estimating housing vacancies rarely use daytime housing exterior images to estimate housing vacancy rates (HVR). In view of this, this study proposed the idea and method of estimating urban housing vacancies based on daytime ho...
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Victoria Basolo, Edith Huarita and Jongho Won
Some housing researchers have criticized the United States housing subsidy scheme referred to as the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program for failing to promote better opportunities for low-income persons. In this study, therefore, we examine th...
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Ya Zhang, Jiping Liu, Yong Wang, Yungang Cao and Youda Bai
With the gradual emergence of the separation and dislocation of urban jobs-housing space, rational planning of urban jobs-housing space has become the core issue of national land-spatial planning. To study the existing relationship between workspaces and...
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Hazem Rashed-Ali
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The integration of cogeneration systems in residential and mixed-use communities has the potential of reducing their energy demand and harmful emissions and can thus play asignificant role in increasing their environmental sustainability. This study inve...
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