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Healthy, family-friendly apartment kitchen design: a study of practice in Melbourne, Australia
This study explored constraints and opportunities in apartment kitchen design for family home cooking and dining. An online audit of 115 two-bedroom...
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Micro-segregation and residential mobility: case study of two athenian apartment blocks
This article considers changes regarding the social physiognomy of apartment blocks in urban housing in the densely built neighbourhoods of Athens...
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Exploring housing quality perception and attitude groups through annoyance on vertical public-housing: online user review: case study—apartment in Bandung City, Indonesia
Housing quality is assessed through housing annoyance but it is generally assessed partially. Identifying some sources of annoyance can lead to...
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Challenges of participatory design in apartment buildings’ renovation projects in Finland
Participatory and user-centered design has taken inspiration from each other, and the classical roles of users, researchers, and designers have...
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Is there an endogeneity problem between health and apartment value? Gender differences and the impact of obesity on property self-evaluation
Background Numerous studies have compared self evaluation and market values of apartments by employing hedonic regressions. Most of these studies...
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Using a choice experiment to explore the public willingness to pay for the impacts of improving energy efficiency of an apartment
It is quite important to improve energy efficiency of an apartment in South Korea since it is the most common residential space. The government needs...
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A Comparative analysis of residents’ satisfaction with apartment building management and maintenance services in South Korea and Taiwan
Competition in global service markets is becoming very intense. Therefore, enhancing customer satisfaction has become a serious undertaking for...
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Standards and the demand for adapting apartments for better accessibility for older adults in Poland
The process of Polish population aging is gaining momentum. In Poland there is a large number of people aging in place, and their physical...
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Motivations and market solutions for flexible housing in Finland
Flexibility is essential for sustainable housing and has been one of the design elements in Finnish architecture. However, between 1990 and 2010,...
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Evaluation of contemporary housing in Tirana using space syntax visibility graphs
During the last decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of newly constructed apartment buildings in Tirana. The new residences...
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The effects of floor plan representations on preferences for apartments
In the real-estate industry, floor plans are commonly used to communicate spatial layouts of housing alternatives to house hunters. Using the method...
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Home and neighborhood environmental correlates of civic participation among community-dwelling older adults in Canada
Productive aging research has thoroughly documented that civic participation is associated with health and psychological well-being among older...
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Toward building a 3D Web-based spatial decision framework for apartment selection
In the last few decades, there has been a growing interest in effectively incorporating the analytic modeling capabilities of decision support...
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Different preferences, but the same approach: the practice of the sales comparison in the Berlin housing rental and sale market
While determining the value of various housing attributes can vary between sales and rental markets, market participants may use the sales comparison...
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Apartment complexes in the Korean housing market: what are the benefits of agglomeration?
The Korean government has codified a unique set of regulations that requires developers to provide certain types and sizes of community and...
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Barriers to implementing adaptable housing: architects’ perceptions in Finland and Denmark
Adaptability is one key aspect in making housing more sustainable. One major approach to adaptability is internal transformability of buildings, i.e....
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Adaptable housing? A quantitative study of contemporary apartment layouts that have been rearranged by end-users
Adaptability, that is, the capacity to accommodate future changes, is described as an intrinsic aspect of sustainable housing. Nevertheless, few...
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Economic effects of air quality on housing prices: evidence from Bei**g, China
Air pollution is a major environmental urban issue, particularly in fast-growing cities in develo** countries. Reducing air pollution is thus a...
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Management and maintenance of multi-family buildings in Croatia: perspective of co-owners’ representatives
The paper deals with maintenance and management problems in multi-family buildings in Zagreb and other Croatian cities from the perspective of...