Radical Housing

Name: Radical Housing
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781859468913
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Designing multi-generational and co-living housing for all

By Caroline Dove

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Radical Housing by Caroline Dove is an essential design guide that examines innovative housing typologies focused on multi-generational living and co-living arrangements. The book delves into the planning, technical, financial, health, and social considerations necessary for creating flexible, affordable homes. Richly illustrated with case studies and plans from across the UK and internationally, it offers practical insights into overcoming legislative and financial challenges while promoting sustainable, adaptable housing solutions that foster supportive community environments.
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This book is ideal for architects, architecture students, community groups, and professionals interested in delivering innovative, affordable housing solutions. It also appeals to those engaged in urban planning, social housing policy, and sustainable design.

Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living.

Description

An essential design guide for architects and others interested in innovative housing typologies

Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and plans from projects across the UK and abroad, this book aims to inform and inspire the delivery of alternative approaches to affordable and flexible housing. It is an essential text for architecture practitioners, students, and community groups.

Offers inspiration and innovative ideas for customer-led housing and deliverable solutions from the UK and abroad.
Practical focus, particularly around deliverability, giving readers an understanding of the planning and legislative framework, and helping them to negotiate a speedier path through the process of obtaining consents.
Demonstrates how alternative housing models can help to deliver the number of affordable homes needed, exploring finance and land availability.
Offers a sustainable vision of the future, since new homes must be flexible and adaptable over time so they can meet the changing needs of families and communities.
Outlines the social benefits to society beyond the provision of homes for those in need and demonstrates through case studies that it is also important to establish supportive, caring and stimulating environments for people to thrive.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781859468913

Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 June 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: RIBA Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Caroline Dove is an architect and Partner of HTA Design LLP, with over 30 years’ experience of collaborating with communities to design sustainable places to live. She leads multi-disciplinary teams responsible for designing and delivering a wide range of community-led regeneration and refurbishment projects, housing for older people, custom-build housing, and local authority housebuilding programmes.