Housing the Rangoon poor : Indians, Burmese, and town planning in colonial Burma

In Rangoon/Yangon, the ex-capital city of Burma/Myanmar, there still remain many old buildings today. Those buildings were constructed in the British colonial period, especially from the 1900s to the 1930s, and formed Rangoon's built environment as something modern. In focusing on the period before and after the inauguration of the Rangoon Development Trust in 1921, this paper describes how the colonial administrative authorities perceived urban problems and how their policy and practice affected urban society. It also suggests the possibility that competition for habitation among the lower strata of Rangoon society was a cause of the serious urban riot in 1930.

Housing

"A journal of housing advance, issued by the National Housing Association"

An appraisal method for measuring the quality of housing: a yardstick for health officers, housing officials and planners ...

"First edition."

Residential investment and sustainable communities

This research examines the scope for more private rented housing as part of securing housing choice and affordability. A comprehensive review covers the current UK planning, housing and investment framework. It examines UK valuation practice and draws lessons from the Netherlands and Canada. UK case studies illustrate how private companies and social organisations are challenging commonly perceived barriers to mixed-use, mixed-tenure and rented housing through imaginative developments and investments. Additionally, the case studies incorporate financial appraisals of actual schemes and illustrate the reasons for different approaches by private and social organisations to assessing financial feasibility, based on their individual objectives. The report provides a practical resource for property professionals, investors and developers as well as an aid to policy makers in understanding property and investment market responses. The research was funded through the Pat Allsop Education Trust.

Habita����o e gest��o ambiental em ��reas de mananciais: o caso do munic��pio de Santo Andr�� (SP)

Este artigo tem como objetivo levantar e discutir as a����es de gest��o ambiental e sua interface com a quest��o habitacional junto �� ��rea administrada pela Subprefeitura de Paranapiacaba e Parque Andreense, Santo Andr��-SP, no bi��nio 2007-2008. O foco do trabalho �� a capacidade pol��tica e institucional do munic��pio criada para tratar de tais quest��es. Os m��todos usados foram pesquisa documental, bibliogr��fica e de campo, com entrevista a gestores do munic��pio. A pesquisa identificou que o munic��pio conta com propostas com grande potencial de contribui����o para a melhoria da qualidade ambiental e habitacional na ��rea de mananciais, principalmente por seu car��ter de integra����o entre planejamentos. O estabelecimento de conselhos com participa����o de v��rias pastas representa um potencial elemento de integra����o nas a����es desses ��rg��os, permitindo o compartilhamento de temas pertinentes ao longo do desenvolvimento das agendas de forma cont��nua. Quanto �� recupera����o urbana e ambiental dos loteamentos irregulares, �� poss��vel afirmar que os par��metros urban��sticos e a defini����o do uso e ocupa����o do solo est��o intimamente relacionados �� qualidade ambiental e precisam ser constru��dos em conjunto por profissionais da ��rea de urbanismo e da ��rea ambiental, e discutidos com a comunidade local. O formato de gest��o na ��rea de mananciais, foco deste estudo de caso no munic��pio de Santo Andr��, representa um significativo passo na constru����o da integra����o entre os sistemas de gerenciamento de recursos h��dricos e de planejamento urbano/metropolitano.

Conservation;

"A proposed conservation program for Chicago (Confidential) [Revision of March 28, 1953]": 7, 4 L. laid in v.1.

Segregaci��n socioespacial en ciudades mineras: el caso de Antofagasta, Chile

La actividad minera ha impulsado la econom��a local en naciones desarrolladas y en v��as de desarrollo, especialmente en el Cono Sur de Am��rica Latina, por atraer capital externo y nuevos actores a las zonas donde se concentra la extracci��n. Sin embargo, este proceso, particularmente en esta regi��n, ha promovido modalidades de desarrollo desigual que afectan tanto a las zonas urbanas como a las rurales, producen transformaciones socioespaciales, y crean barreras f��sicas y sociales. El presente art��culo forma parte de una serie de estudios sobre desarrollo urbano en zonas mineras realizados en Australia y en Chile, en este ��ltimo caso en la ciudad de Antofagasta, en el norte del pa��s. Su prop��sito es ampliar el conocimiento sobre la segregaci��n socioespacial, espec��ficamente de diversas dimensiones del desarrollo urbano (espacial, institucional, socioecon��mica), mediante la aplicaci��n de enfoques te��ricos y anal��ticos que permiten abordar el tema en forma integral.

Management effectiveness: Assessing management of protected areas?

To maximise the potential of protected areas, we need to understand the strengths and weaknesses in their management and the threats and stresses that they face. There is increasing pressure on governments and other bodies responsible for protected areas to monitor their effectiveness. The reasons for assessing management effectiveness include the desire by managers to adapt and improve their management strategies, improve planning and priority setting and the increasing demands for reporting and accountability being placed on managers, both nationally and internationally. Despite these differing purposes for assessment, some common themes and information needs can be identified, allowing assessment systems to meet multiple uses. Protected-area management evaluation has a relatively short history. Over the past 20 years a number of systems have been proposed but few have been adopted by management agencies. In response to a recognition of the need for a globally applicable approach to this issue, the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas developed a framework for assessing management effectiveness of both protected areas and protected area systems. This framework was launched at the World Conservation Congress in Jordan in 2000. The framework provides guidance to managers to develop locally relevant assessment systems while helping to harmonise assessment approaches around the world. The framework is strongly linked to the protected area management process and is adaptable to different types and circumstances of protected areas around the world. Examples from Fraser Island in Australia and the Congo Basin illustrate the use of the framework.

Desafios para a conquista do direito �� moradia digna no assentamento Ilha

This booklet has been prepared from the actions for the university extension project entitled "Housing and Environment: building dialogue on urbanization of the settlement Ilha���. The study was conducted in a community located on the south end of the city of Almirante Tamandar��, among Barigui and Tangu�� rivers. This project was conducted by a group of professors and students of the Federal University of Technology - Paran�� (UTFPR), Campus Curitiba. The main objective was to investigate ways of intervention in housing and urbanization of the settlement Ilha, for the regularization of their properties. However, throughout the project, the group found that regularization of this settlement was not possible, in view of the risk of flooding on site. Therefore, this booklet provides information about the area and the rivers in their surroundings, on the positive aspects of living there, brings the story of some struggles of residents for better living conditions, as well as suggestions of funding sources for facilitating a possible relocation of existing families.

Social housing and land use planning in Medellin during the period 2006-2011. Steps towards socio economic and residential segregation

This paper presents an approach to the relationship between land use planning and socioeconomic residential segregation, from the location of social housing in Medellin, Colombia, during the period 2006-2011. The first part introduces the land use regulations regarding the location of social housing, identifying ambiguities in the current spatial plan. Next, we present the intersection of ��regulatory information and the location of the projects that were under construction during the ��study period, highlighting the need to consider the location as an important characteristic of social housing and residential segregation as a phenomenon that must be recognized and worked on land ��use planning in our cities.

Housing supply and planning controls: the impact of development control processing times on housing supply in England

The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit commissioned Professor Michael Ball of Reading University to undertake empirical research into how long it was taking to obtain planning consent for major housing sites in England. The focus on sites as opposed to planning applications is important because it is sites that generate housing.