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 702-330 Housing Sustainability

Note

This subject is not available to students who have completed the subject Residential Marketing and Management.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Associate Professor Nick Low

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

Up to 3 hours of lectures and seminars per week

Subject Description

This subject will provide students with a basic understanding of the Australian system of housing provision with a focus on the problem of sustainable development. This problem, as it concerns housing provision, is considered from ecological, social, political and economic perspectives. Elements of the housing systems: production, consumption, exchange and management in a market society. Comparison with systems in other countries. Key issues in housing provision: affordability, social polarisation and resource productivity. Solutions to the problem of sustainability in terms of the house, the neighbourhood and the housing system.

Assessment

Assessment to the equivalent of 7500 words: Housing Sustainability exercise (20%), tutorial paper and participation (40%), research essay (40%).

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