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Conference program and Overview workshops International conference 'Doing, thinking, feeling home: The mental geography of residential environments', Delft, The Netherlands, October 14-15, 2005

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Attaching dwellings to places through the design of intermediary spaces

Ter Veen, M. (author)

Workshop 3. Session 3.1: Privacy and public life Introduction: This paper is part of a PhD-research project ‘Rupture in the Capsular Society’ at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology. The project is focussed on the relation between architecture and users and more specifically on the spatial and physical features of...

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Investigating a theory of housing, ontological security and self-identity: A qualitative analysis of interview data in a multi-cultural Canadian city

Dunn, J.R. (author)

Workshop 1. Session 1.1: Poverty and identity. Abstract: This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study investigating the utility of the theoretical constructs ‘ontological security’ and ‘self-identity’ for understanding the routinized, everyday experience of housing and home. In-depth interviews conducted with 16 households in two inner...

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Spatial identity and geostrategic lifeplanning (draft version)

Metaal, S. (author)

Workshop 2. Session 2.2: Functions and users

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The meaning of distinct architectural and urban design features

Meesters, J. (author)

Workshop 2. Session 2.1: Planning and everyday life

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Reading and (re)writing the city: The use of the habitus concept in urban research and development

Blondeel, P. (author)

Workshop 2. Session 2.1: Planning and everyday life

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Design for living

Poelman, W. (author)

Workshop 4. Session 4.1: Design and modernity Abstract: Within the discipline of industrial design engineering “dfx” is a common abbreviation for “design for x”, in which the “x” refers to several goals like sustainability (dfs), assembly (dfa), disabled (dfd), etcetera. As more industrial design engineers are employed within the Faculty for...

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Residential choice and neighbourhood experiences in a Dutch urban poverty area; draft version

Van der Land, M. (author)

Workshop 1. Session 1.1: Poverty and identity

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The meaning of dwelling from an ecological perspective

Coolen, H. (author)

Workshop 2. Session 2.2: Functions and users Abstract: The meaning of dwelling has been studied from many different perspectives such as psychology, phenomenology, sociology and environment behavior studies. Several authors have argued that a more integrative and interdisciplinary approach is needed in which physical, socio-cultural,...

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The inverse culture of poverty

Noordhoff, F. (author)

Workshop 1. Session 1.1: Poverty and Identity. Abstract: Low-income groups develop a ‘culture of poverty’ because of their marginalized position. Neighborhood effect studies use this notion as a point of departure. The culture of poverty provides necessary contacts for the informal economy, socializes diverging norms, and reproduces inequality...

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Call for papers: International conference Doing, thinking, feeling home: The mental geography of residential environments, Delft, 14-15 October 2005

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Social and material appropriation of neighborhood space: Collective space and resistance in a Dutch urban community

De Haan, H. (author)

Workshop 3. Session 3.1: Privacy and public life

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Identity and lifestyle in the residential environment (draft version)

Clapham, D. (author)

The paper focuses on the concepts of identity and lifestyle that have been little used to date in housing research. It is argued that identity is forged through social interaction, but this has both an agency and a structural dimension that can be considered together. The concept of categorical identity is important here as it helps to bridge...

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International conference 'Doing, thinking, feeling home: The mental geography of residential environments'

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Measuring the residential environment

Wassenberg, F. (author), Goetgeluk, F. (author)

Workshop 2. Session 2.3: Mapping home Abstract Housing satisfaction is more and more being determined by the quality of the surrounding area, and its appreciation by the inhabitants. Housing is more than the care for just a roof for everybody: the residential environment matters. Otherwise, there are processes of individualization, globalization...

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Mapping urban and social space: Towards a socio-cultural understanding of the built environment

Claessens, F. (author)

Workshop 2. Session 2.1: Planning and everyday life

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The neighbourhood of children beyond playing: A social-pedagogical perspective

De Visscher, S. (author), Bouverne-De Bie, M. (author)

Workshop 3. Session 3.2: Caring and playing Introduction: Many studies and policy practices relating to the neighbourhood of children1 construe the neighbourhood mainly as a play environment. As a result, the neighbourhood of children is predominantly if not exclusively assessed on the opportunities it offers to children for playing and...

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The concept of neighbourhood in contemporary residential environments: An investigation of occupants’ perception

Berk, M.G. (author)

Workshop 2. Session 2.3: Mapping home

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Dwelling from the inside to the outside: Between the private and the public

Jürgenhake, B. (author)

Workshop 3. Session 3.3: Expression and taste Abstract: Dwelling has boundaries, filters from the inside to the outside. The facade, the skin of the dwelling, is a sensitive part of the house. It has many functions to fulfill: the face of the home as a face to the public, the physical filter and the psychological membrane of the home as well....

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Behavioural responses to neighbourhood reputations

Permentier, M. (author), Bolt, G. (author), Van Ham, M. (author)

Workshop 1. Session 1.3: (Counter)acting stigma. Abstract: Urban neighbourhoods remain under the attention of politicians and scientists. Although it has been acknowledged that the lives of most (categories of) people are no longer centred around their area of residence, the idea that the neighbourhood context can have an influence on the life...

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