1st Edition

Sustainable Collective Housing Policy and Practice for Multi-family Dwellings

By Lee Ann Nicol Copyright 2013
200 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Housing stocks provide much more than just shelter. Energy suppliers, pension fund managers and public transit providers are but a few of the many stakeholders that have a regulated interest in the non-shelter goods and services offered by housing. Such stakeholders and their activities are traditionally addressed on a sectoral basis, yet regulations that are designed to apply to one... Read more
1. Introduction  2. Context  3. The Institutional Regime for the Study of Housing Sustainability  4. Applying the Institutional Regimes Framework to Study Housing Stock Sustainability  5. Case Study Descriptions  6. How Changes in Regime Affect Management Strategies and the Use of Housing Goods and Services  7. The Relationship between Regime and Housing Sustainability  8. Prioritizing Shelter and the Importance of Non-housing Goods and Services  9. Key Fndings and Conclusions

Biography

Lee Ann Nicol is a research associate at ETH CASE – the Centre for Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment at ETH Zurich. With a background in engineering and urban planning, her research interests lie in sustainable urban development, specifically the institutional considerations of sustainability in the housing sector.