Overview
- Provides a methodological framework for policy makers and architects, helping them grasp how their cultural contexts can improve housing design
- Offers a guide to sustainable public housing design in culturally sensitive communities in line with the United Nations’ sustainable development goals
- Includes tips on how communities’ mainstream values are ingrained and streamlined with housing configurations in urban settings of cultured communities in developing nations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides readers with two major practical insights. Firstly, on the basis of statistical inquiry it identifies the significance of socio-cultural elements that encourage user-instigated transformation. Secondly, it employs layout pattern analysis to distinguish transformation patterns, hence revealing an unbroken cultural link between residents and their roots. The book also sheds new light on the transformation of public housing in the context of culture-sensitive communities in Northern Nigeria.
The research work is directed towards developing culture-responsive public housing design frameworks that are rooted in the current users’ experiences. As a result, a broad portrait of prime design emerges from said experiences. In order to accomplish this goal, the study takes into account both phenomenological and interpretive dimensions. In the process, the cultural factors behind residents’ transformations are uncovered.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Public Housing in Northern Nigeria
Book Subtitle: The Search for Indigeneity and Cultural Practices in Design
Authors: Abubakar Danladi Isah
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40192-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40191-1Published: 22 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82049-1Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40192-8Published: 12 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 161
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 101 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Sustainable Development, Regional and Cultural Studies