Search results for "Housing"

Home and mental ill-health: Twenty dimensions

2017

In the context of psychiatric rehabilitation and care, home is often associated with health. In the context of deinstitutionalization, however, home has increasingly become the primary site of psychiatric suffering. Drawing on a two-year ethnographic research project with a drama group for young adult mental healthcare service users living in supported housing facilities, this paper presents twenty dimensions of home through which mental ill-health can be approached as a bodily experienced, and discursively and medically structured form of being in the world. These dimensions are here offered as a framework for further exploration of the social, spatial, temporal, structural and embodied as…

Autorecupero: una pratica d’innovazione urbana?

2013

La questione abitativa ci sembra rappresentare uno dei campi problematici che più mette in discussione la visione e la concezione delle città, del vivere urbano e dell’abitare, ma anche i rapporti fra la disciplina urbanistica e la politica e le scelte di quest’ultima. L'articolo intende spiegare come l'autorecupero mostri la sua carica di innovazione, tanto dal punto di vista delle realtà urbane quanto per gli studi urbanistici.

Immigrants' Employment Situation, Settlement Modalities and Housing Typologies in Middle and Small Sized Cities in Western Sicily

2010

Migranti in Italia. Questione abitativa e paura dell'altro

2006

Housing Affordability and Income-threshold in Social Housing Policy

2016

Abstract The issue of affordable housing has again become crucial in ensuring a greater social equity, increasing social cohesion and reducing inequalities within metropolitan or regional systems which, in the current climate of severe economic crisis, have to respond to global challenges of development, innovation and sustainability. This study aims at building a system of knowledge about the housing affordability on the territorial scale, by which to identify the local characteristics of housing problems that could be solved through traditional planning tools or new practices of social housing, which involves private stakeholders and/or public administrations. This system of knowledge sho…

Do shippers’ characteristics influence port choice criteria? Capturing heterogeneity by using latent class models

2022

Abstract This paper focuses on the study of Spanish ceramic tile exporters' port choice criteria, an industry that is characterized by a low unit value index. Thus, transport costs highly influence the competitiveness of their products in international markets, representing a relatively high percentage of the value of the shipment. It is therefore critical for this type of industry to have access to efficient door-to-door maritime chains. Determinants of port choice are analysed through a latent class model allowing to link class membership to specific characteristics of the shippers and their shipments such as the size of the company, the value of the shipment, the destination market and t…

DEA-like models for efficiency evaluation of specialized and interdependent units

2001

Abstract The problem of evaluating the efficiency of a set of specialized and interdependent decision making subunits (DMSUs) that make up a larger decision making unit (DMU) is considered. The DMSUs are interdependent, in the sense that part of the output produced by each of them may be used as an input by the other ones. They are also specialized, hence non-homogeneous, as they may have not the same inputs and outputs. For this problem, some efficiency indexes are introduced, and they are shown to satisfy some basic properties.

Polígon de Montbau

2009

Il poligono "modello" di Montbau sorge, all'interno della città di Barcellona, nella zona nord, vicino all'ospedale Vall d'Hebron. L'insediamento abitativo costituisce uno degli esempi di edilizia sociale pubblica edificati nel secondo dopoguerra in Catalunya, per porre rimedio alla cronica mancanza di alloggi nella capitale catalana

Is there a Market Value for Energy Performance in a Local Private Housing Market ? An efficiency analysis approach

2018

This paper aims to find evidence of a “green value” in a local housing market using notarial data on a small urban area in France. We use frontier functions, an original approach that departs from customary hedonistic regressions, to model housing market prices as a production set bordered by an efficiency frontier estimated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The paper tests if difference in prices (i.e. the distance from the frontier) can be explained by energy performance measured as a normalized categorical ascending kWh/m²/year grade (or Energy Performance Certificate -EPC). We show that there is significative evidence for energy performance's market value. The “Green Property Value” i…

Nature et impacts des effets spatiaux sur les valeurs immobilières : le cas de l'espace urbanisé francilien

2013

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