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702-335 Housing Diversity | |
Note | This subject is not available to students who have completed the subject Residential Development Design. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 2 |
Coordinator | Associate Professor Leonie Sandercock |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Up to 4 hours of lectures, tutorials, practical exercises and site visits per week |
Subject Description | A review of housing forms and styles in response to changing social, cultural, political, economic and technological conditions. An approach to housing as a process as well as a product, and an understanding of the difference between house and home. The issue of diversity and the importance of acknowledging and providing for diversity in housing policy, design and location. Analysis of three main types of diversity in the housing market: cultural diversity, life-cycle diversity, and diversities of disadvantage. Housing as a multidisciplinary research and policy enterprise and practice. |
Assessment | Assignments to the equivalent of 7500 words: a subject workbook with weekly entries, a research essay, a site evaluation exercise and field trip. |
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