702-335 Housing Diversity

702-206 Architectural Design 2B or 702-211 Income Property Analysis or 705-289 Urbanisation and Urban Development

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.

On completion of the subject students should have developed skills in research, critical analysis and writing and some experience with group work.

Assignments and class papers to the equivalent of 3000 words, (60%) plus a two-hour examination (40%).