Affordable housing for smart villages /

• Main Authors: Doloi, Hemanta Kumar, (Author), Donovan, Sally, 1953- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: k, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
• Subjects: Smart cities.; Dwellings > Design and construction > Cost effectiveness.; Housing > Planning.; Community development.; Rural development.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rura...

Table of Contents:

• Housing in rural settings
• The nature-culture determinants of rural housing
• Affordable houses
• Housing affordability
• Materials and resources in construction of affordable houses
• Global practices in rural development
• Vulnerability in rural community
• Resilience in rural community
• Sustained growth and development.