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702-335 Housing Diversity | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 2 |
Coordinator | Associate Professor Leonie Sandercock |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Four 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: group research project and a short test based on readings, a research essay, a site evaluation exercise and field trip. |
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