Housing pathology: A new domain or a new name?

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...

Housing equity withdrawal in Australia

More Australian home owners are using housing equity withdrawal to unlock financial resources to fund living expenses, especially in retirement. Policy is needed to address potential adverse consequences of these strategies.

Evaluation of innovative land tools in sub-Saharan Africa: Three cases from a peri-urban context

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to...

Evaluation of innovative land tools in sub-Saharan Africa: Three cases from a peri-urban context

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to...

Automated Map Generalisation: Meeting today's information demands

Error propagation in the computation of volumes in 3D city models with the Monte Carlo method

This paper describes the analysis of the propagation of positional uncertainty in 3D city models to the uncertainty in the computation of their volumes. Current work related to error propagation in GIS is limited to 2D data and 2D GIS operations, especially of rasters. In this research we have (1) developed two engines, one that generates random...

Building a repository on European colonial architecture and town planning

During the past two years the TU Delft Library has developed a repository to store data about architecture and town planning in the former Dutch colonies. Historical images, books, journals and archives coming from libraries and museums are scanned and stored into the repository. Information about architects, buildings and town plans and...

Feature aware Digital Surface Model analysis and generalization based on the 3D Medial Axix Transform

Modern Digital Surface Models (DSMs) are highly detailed and cover large areas. This brings great advantages for applications such as flood modeling, crisis management and 3D city modeling. Unfor- tunately, and despite recent developments on this subject, current methods are unable to fully take ad- vantage of modern DSMs. First, because of...

Modeling the green building (GB) investment decisions of developers and end-users with transaction costs (TCs) considerations

The paper, through a “regenerative” lens, has focused upon a new conceptual game system involving transaction costs (TCs) for creating a more accessible green buildings (GB) market. Individual stakeholders steadfastly guard their own interests in any investment decision, which seldom considers any positive gains to society. Green buildings,...

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