Print Email Facebook Twitter Housing pathology: A new domain or a new name? Title Housing pathology: A new domain or a new name? Author Thomsen, A. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Date 2014-01-08 Abstract The term pathology has its origin in the medical science and is generally defined as the systematic study of diseases with the aim of understanding their causes, symp-toms and treatment. The term has been applied since in many different disciplines; in the context of the built environment being in particular building pathology, social and urban pathology. Though it is the combination and interference of technical, social, spatial and eco-nomical processes that is determining for the health and life cycle of housing stock, they are not interdisciplinary studied in a pathological context. That is to say, the abundance of theoretical and applied knowledge about the different fields of housing management is up to now quite segmented and not combined in a comprehensive pathological domain. The paper defines and explores the field of housing pathology, overlooks the availa-ble knowledge and concludes that, regarding the paradigm shift from new construc-tion to maintenance and improvement of the existing stock, housing pathology should acknowledged and further elaborated as an essential interdisciplinary knowledge domain. Subject housing pathologyhousing qualityhousing managementlife cyclediagnostics To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4d05e282-34ca-4a42-ba4a-0b6c31ac1d13 Publisher Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Embargo date 2014-01-09 Source Working paper 2014-01 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2014 Thomsen, A.OTB - Research for the Built Environment Files PDF OTB_Working_papers_2014-0 ... hology.pdf 965.16 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4d05e282-34ca-4a42-ba4a-0b6c31ac1d13/datastream/OBJ/view