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Contemporary housing systems neither live up to their social nor their ecological aims, resulting in affordability and environmental crises. We explore the potentials for securing access to affordable and adequate housing for all while rapidly reducing energy and resource use and associated greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. For this purpose, we carry out a case study of the housing system in Vienna to scrutinize how social-ecological provision has been enabled or restrained by Viennese housing regulations. We introduce a broad conceptualization of housing that encompasses material objects (housing as noun) and socio-cultural practices (housing as verb) and embed these concepts in a provisioning perspective. The history of Vienna's housing system is outlined with an emphasis on the radical municipal reformism of Red Vienna (1919–1934) and path dependencies from welfare capitalism to neoliberalism. Based on the historical analysis, we highlight barriers hindering social-ecological housing provision today and suggest three sets of measures for greening Red Vienna: (1) Establishing social-ecological obligations to property ownership, prioritizing ecological upgrading, and favoring retrofitting instead of new constructions; (2) introducing lower and upper limits on housing provision to reduce inequalities; and (3) overcoming the focus on individual building sites and widening the scope of housing policies toward securing habitation for all residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary housing systems neither live up to their social nor their ecological aims, resulting in affordability and environmental crises. We explore the potentials for securing access to affordable and adequate housing for all while rapidly reducing energy and resource use and associated greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. For this purpose, we carry out a case study of the housing system in Vienna to scrutinize how social-ecological provision has been enabled or restrained by Viennese housing regulations. We introduce a broad conceptualization of housing that encompasses material objects (housing as noun) and socio-cultural practices (housing as verb) and embed these concepts in a provisioning perspective. The history of Vienna’s housing system is outlined with an emphasis on the radical municipal reformism of Red Vienna (1919–1934) and path dependencies from welfare capitalism to neoliberalism. Based on the historical analysis, we highlight barriers hindering social-ecological housing provision today and suggest three sets of measures for greening Red Vienna: (1) Establishing social-ecological obligations to property ownership, prioritizing ecological upgrading, and favoring retrofitting instead of new constructions; (2) introducing lower and upper limits on housing provision to reduce inequalities; and (3) overcoming the focus on individual building sites and widening the scope of housing policies toward securing habitation for all residents.

Introduction: Crowded spaces, especially during significant events or rituals, pose challenges in terms of safety and management. This study introduces a novel approach to address these challenges by leveraging Virtual Reality Exposure (VRE) as a potential solution. Using the Tawaf ritual around the Kaaba and the specific actof touching the Black Stone as a case study, this research explores how VRE can be employed to alter individual behaviors and perceptions in crowded spaces. Methods: Participants completed questionnaires assessing their behaviors and perceptions before and after exposure to two types of Virtual Reality environments: visual-only Virtual Reality (VR) and multi-sensory Virtual Reality (MVR). Results: Results indicated amarked decrease in participants' eagerness to physically interact with the Black Stone after the VR exposure. However, this eagerness saw a minor resurgence in the MVR setting, suggesting a more profound sense of immersion. Additionally, the MVR environment significantly enhanced the participants' overall sense of presence and emotional intensity compared to the visual-only VR. Discussion: This research underscores the potential of VRE as a broader tool for crowd management in various settings, emphasizing its generalizability and contribution to the field. By harnessing the immersive capabilities of VRE, stakeholders can mitigate risks and enhance the experience in crowded scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article explores the representation of urban space and human habitation in Greek literature, particularly in the aftermath of the financial crisis that began in 2008. The narrative focuses on the city of Athens as it grapples with economic turmoil, the shock of the pandemic, and the ongoing war in Ukraine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As it is known, the remarriage of the surviving spouse causes the extinction of his right of habitation, a just regulation that takes into account the special and personal character of this right. However, we have raised the question of how to assess, in practice, the situation in which the surviving spouse did not remarry, but lives, in a common-law relationship in that house with another person. In this context, with this paper, we aim to give a legal and equitable solution to this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Personal servitudes are property law institutes with roots in Roman Law. Contemporary property law systems in Europe have accepted this institute originating from Roman law, and have adapted it so that it can be incorporated within their national legislations. The paper aims to examine and analyze how personal servitudes have been adapted and incorporated into the national legislation of European countries and how the different trajectories of development of national legislation have affected that incorporation. Drawing from the similarities and differences in the regulation of personal servitudes in different legal systems, the paper also aims to identify the common characteristics of personal servitudes in contemporary property law systems in Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Crowded spaces, especially during significant events or rituals, pose challenges in terms of safety and management. This study introduces a novel approach to address these challenges by leveraging Virtual Reality Exposure (VRE) as a potential solution. Using the Tawaf ritual around the Kaaba and the specific act of touching the Black Stone as a case study, this research explores how VRE can be employed to alter individual behaviors and perceptions in crowded spaces. Methods: Participants completed questionnaires assessing their behaviors and perceptions before and after exposure to two types of Virtual Reality environments: visual-only Virtual Reality (VR) and multi-sensory Virtual Reality (MVR).Results: Results indicated a marked decrease in participants' eagerness to physically interact with the Black Stone after the VR exposure. However, this eagerness saw a minor resurgence in the MVR setting, suggesting a more profound sense of immersion. Additionally, the MVR environment significantly enhanced the participants' overall sense of presence and emotional intensity compared to the visual-only VR.Discussion: This research underscores the potential of VRE as a broader tool for crowd management in various settings, emphasizing its generalizability and contribution to the field. By harnessing the immersive capabilities of VRE, stakeholders can mitigate risks and enhance the experience in crowded scenarios.

The present study elucidates the ichthyofaunal diversity of Kalingapatnam estuary in the North-east coast of Andhra Pradesh, India. A detailed analysis of piscine diversity revealed a total of 97 species of fresh water, estuary and marine fish belonging to 26 orders, 53 families, and 85 genera, collected three landing locations for the first time. In the present investigation, recorded genera out of 85, the homogeneous percentage was observed of Perciformes and Siluriformes had the highest with 11.76%, followed by Acanthuriformes, Cypriniformes 9.41%, Clupeiformes 8.23%, Carangiformes 4.70%, Beloniformes, Canthuriformes, Cichliformes, Spariformes, Tetraodontiformes 3.52%, Carcharhiniformes, Anabantiformes, Centrarchiformes, Gobiiformes, Mugiliformes, Mulliformes, Scombriformes, Synbranchiformes each with 2.35%. Anguilliformes, Cyprinodontiformes, Elopiformes, Gonorynchiformes, Istiophoriformes, Kurtiformes and Osteoglossiformes each with 1.17%. The habitation of fishes was primarily benthic/demersal, with contributing to 40.20%, followed by benthopelagic 28.86%, pelagic and reef-associated fish 15.46% in this estuary. The omnivores have a highest percentage of 50.98%, followed by the carnivorous 25.49%, and the herbivorous18.36%. According to IUCN (2023) status the ichthyofaunal diversity was recorded in the current investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As an emergent tourism sector, driving tourism connects car use and touristic activities intimately. Following the notion of the 'inhabited car', this article explores how and why Chinese tourists inhabit a travelling car for drivers/passengers in the leisure automobility and driving tourism context. Through three different road trips and 'mobile methods', it was found that Chinese tourists inhabit the car in four ways: driving, gazing, listening, and communicating. Through this embodied habitation, the car is turned into a 'touristic inhabitation' space for protecting the tourists generating touristic emotions、social interactions, and tourism meanings. The study contributes to automobility and tourism literature and provides implications for driving tourism development in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Composed between 1716 and 1722, Fr Jean-Baptiste Labat’s Nouveau Voyage aux îles françaises de l’Amérique orchestrates a chronicle dedicated to the life of the habitation in the Antilles at the dawn of the century. Behind the voice of the slaves, depicted as characters lacking in any psychological depth, and the picaresque voice of a chronicler involved in numerous adventures, another voice can be heard : this is the voice of a habitation society, as it establishes itself as an autonomous economic and social unit. It is this curious polyphony, in which the voices of the slaves, the master and the habitation are intermingled, that this article proposes to consider. While Fr Labat normally turns a deaf ear to the slaves’ speech, every now and then he lends a more attentive ear to his slaves and hints at an unexpected additional voice, that of a new society.

Lava tubes are subterranean tunnels that form as a result of lava flows and appear to extend for long distances beneath the surface of a planet. They are a naturally occurring feature of the Moon. For decades these cave systems have piqued the interest of researchers, not just for their geological complexity, but also for their potential as a habitation site when humans return to the Moon. The internal environment of a lunar lava tube promises to be a benign alternative to the harsh lunar surface; it can provide natural protection from radiation, micrometeoroids, and extreme temperature fluctuations. This paper furthers the study of lunar lava tubes by presenting the possibility of pressurizing them with breathable air. Using a 2D ANSYS simulation model, a range of lava tube sizes are subjected to varied magnitudes of internal pressurization. It is ultimately concluded that it is possible to pressurize a small lava tube while maintaining its structural integrity. • Lunar Lava Tube model based on data has been modeled for unpressurized and pressurized situations. • Stability of lava tube structure is ascertained for various roof thicknesses. • Conclusions are drawn regarding potential for such lava tubes as pressurized habitats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to revisit and deepen contributions on the (re)production of space and housing from a Marxist-Lefebvrian and feminist perspective. The contributions and problematizations occur from two movements: 1) in the field of critical social theory, we seek to give centrality to the category of space production, reflecting how space has been consumed and (re)produced by the capitalist-racist-patriarchal system and what the consequences are in women's daily lives; 2) in terms of emancipatory political practice, the daily experiences, struggles and resistance carried out by black women in search of guaranteeing the right to housing, through the reappropriation and construction of a differential, fair and dignified space, as well as the achievements incorporated in the housing and urban policies arising from this movement. From a methodological point of view, it is structured through bibliographic analysis, documentary sources, regulatory frameworks and social indicators disaggregated by gender and color/race, based on census data prepared by IBGE. As a result, it points out that the historical struggles of black women have allowed significant advances in housing and urban policies, however, with the capitalist-patriarchal-racist system intact and promoting constant dismantling of social rights, they are not able to face inequalities of gender, race and class in access to the right to housing and the city. Finally, in the face of successive attacks on the housing and urban sector to the detriment of a neoliberal counter-revolution project, it reinforces the urgency to retrace paths, strengthen the collective struggle in favor of claiming use as a principle and (re)appropriating the space through revolutionary and insurgent practices, so that the dialectic of possibleimpossible is opened. Keywords: space; habitat [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The classification of residential real estate occupied by the citizens of the country has been raised more than once both by the scientific community and by the state. Based on the managerial approach, the article reveals the main methods of differentiation of places of residence and class of housing, used by government department at the federal and regional levels. On the example of the modern megapolis — St. Petersburg — the dynamics of the development of the housing sector, its important social character is shown. Based on historical, sociological and normative methods, the material on specific cases illustrates the heterogeneity of people living in various types of modern housing. It is concluded that it is necessary to take into account the entire system of factors that determine the classification of residential real estate in order to more accurately predict the development of social processes in the housing sector, and effective public administration at the regional level.

Within home economics and household-related education, a major challenge is to grasp complexity, understand it and accept it as a manageable task. Problem-based learning (PBL) offers a concept for understanding more complex questions and problems from everyday life and how they are interwoven with social conditions. Opportunities and limitations are discussed from the perspective of higher education didactics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Literatures and organising show us how, in contemporary racial financial capitalism, housing is formed through dispossessive histories and geographies. Here, we query how these enter into play in the visual regimes through which housing is seen and experienced. For if the visual realm is as much a construct as any other housing matter, finding a grammar to tap into its workings might become handy when its violent outcomes come to the fore. What is reproduced in the visual regimes of housing? What is offered and taken anyway? What might never be seen, and by whom? The article offers a tentative analytical approach to questioning what we call dispossessed exposures: the (en)visioning of homely futures that are deprived, already in the social construct of seeing with the house, the possibility of radical care for and of habitation. These ideas are unpacked through reflection on two films: Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables and Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouihl’s Gagarine. We offer these reasonings as a contribution to ongoing conversations in the renewed field of housing justice scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to make explicit connections between bioregionalism and Karl Polanyi's work, through an avenue, which has been unexplored so far. A combination of his lesser-known work on regional planning and his ecologically informed ideas about habitation on the one hand, and core ideas of bioregionalism on the other, provide a prospective basis for a future beyond global capitalism. The main argument is that, with such a combination "reembedding through reinhabitation" emerges as a substantial strategy for regional planning. I will then consider this strategic idea further in the article as the substance of the politics of regionalism. I will discuss the crucial questions of bioregional formation along these lines and elaborate conclusions regarding their relevance for political strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The provincial government of Jakarta province has massively increased the number of rental apartments in Jakarta to meet the rising housing needs. Consequently, social considerations regarding the design are compromised. Although considered as a prohibited transgression, building appropriation is an act of inhabitation by residents to meet their needs and overcome these social problems. This study aims to understand the influence of habitus on appropriation as an act of inhabitation in rental apartments. For this study, we utilized the case study method in Jatinegara Rental Apartment, where most of the residents had appropriated the housing components to meet their needs for privacy and social interactions simultaneously. The primary data is collected through in-depth interviews with seventy-three respondents then the result is coded and tabularized for the interpretation analysis with the crosstab. This study finds the act of appropriation of these housing components comes from habitus and allows the residents to engage in social interactions without losing their privacy, which blurs the demarcation between private and public spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates human perception and use of Small Green Spaces (SGS) in a dense Western city (Florence, Italy). While there is some work on social dynamics in large urban parks, empirical studies of SGS are fewer. The research adopts an exploratory approach with a mixed methods strategy (observation sessions, 50 in-depth interviews, and 430 questionnaires). The analysis is framed within a tripartite model of interaction between people and space as spontaneous appropriation of space through the body, senses, and mind. The analysis of use patterns, practices, and conflicts in SGS illustrates how continuous use and proximity make SGS persistent scenarios of users' daily life, differently from large city parks. Sociality and restorative opportunities afforded by natural features define users' experiences and SGS appreciation across genders and age groups. The discussion illustrates how the theoretical constructs of functional indetermination and non-normativity explain users' perception of SGS as open-ended settings, spared from the extensive compression of publicness and commodification of other public spaces in contemporary cities. Implications of the study outcomes are discussed in relation to social cohesion in open public spaces and with the declining sense of urbanity in large cities. Some indications on design, planning, and management of SGS are also suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Article is devoted to actual problems of hypothecary crediting in conditions of financial crisis in the Russian Federation. In article major problems of hypothecary crediting are opened, as well as prospects of progress of housing crediting in Russia are considered.

Some aspects of the relationship between the house and the city, defined as typological objects of architectural design and as categories of human habitation, are considered. The context of the city, therefore, acts as a generalizing concept that measures two spaces - physical earthly and experienced by man. The physical space represents buildings and infrastructure elements constructed by man that objectively modify the natural landscape; the experienced space is a phenomenon of a more multidimensional order - subjective and collective at the same time. The house (home), the city (town) and the landscape - together they absorb the whole experience of a practice whose logic of origin can be perceived through the optics of experience not only as reasonable, but also as paradoxical. Accordingly, the aim of the study is to reflect on the extent to which the individual manages to locate in the city not just the appropriate building, but precisely the house(s) - as 'inhabited space'(home). Fixing the patterns of "urban habitability" will allow us to move on to a discussion of design method and experimental typologies in the future.

While the person-environment relationship is one of the structuring frameworks of daily life in general, for disabled people this relationship is a decisive one. ADA is an action research project which assessed the person-environment relationship of people with severe disabilities and subsequently proposed home adaptations to improve their autonomy, well-being and quality of life. The article introduces the framework of ADA and its strategy to personalise home adaptations while considering participants multifaceted profiles. The impact of ADA on the life of its recipients in a context of fragmented disability policies is then discussed. Space appropriation processes and effects on trust in institutions and agency of participants are assessed. A sociologically informed perspective on habitation is adopted to conduct a reliable and multidimensional ex-post evaluation of the effects of home adaptations. The article discusses the strategy and impact of a home adaptation project carried out in a context with insufficient disability policies. Home adaptations affect how disabled people live in their homes in many ways. Home adaptations change what behaviours disabled people can perform, but also how they feel and what their spaces mean to them. Adaptations are more effective when customized on the specific needs of each disabled person. This is challenging and requires experts from different fields. Getting disabled people and their families involved in the assessment of their homes promotes their self-confidence and trust in the process, especially if they had previous disappointing experiences with other disability services and policies. People who had successful adaptations are eager to share their experience. Actively involving them in supporting other participants could have positive effects and should be further investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aims & Backgrounds: The most important consequences of climate change are the occurrence of drought in different parts of the world (especially Iran), which has encountered urban and rural settlements with various crises. One of the ways to deal with this phenomenon is to plan a Disaster (Drought) Risk Reduction plan that is part of a crisis-specific agenda for urban planning and management. The purpose of this study is to identify, measure, and prioritize the effects of drought on habitation in Isfahan; and present strategic planning agendas resulting from compatible and prioritized scenarios derived from the Analysis of Interconnected Decision Area related to reducing the risk of drought crisis. Methodology: In this descriptive-analytical research, at first, by using delphi technique, the effective factors on habitation activity were identified, and in the next step, these impacts were assessed through social scrolling using a residents’ questionnaire in Isfahan with 384 samples by non-random quota sampling. Twenty impact which have higher mean score, extracted and then by entering into the process of the problematic strategic spatial planning process and applying the Analysis of Interconnected Decision Area techniques, compatible and prioritized scenarios of the program are designed. It should be noted that during the above-mentioned step, the scenarios are prioritized based on the results of semi-quantitative risk assessment. Findings: The results indicate that the impacts of “river drying and madies”, “the dissatisfaction and distrust between civil society and decision makers”, “life expectancy transformation”, “air quality change” and “increased physical health vulnerability” are highest risk of habitation in Isfahan. Conclusion: The top scenario among the nine areas of decision-making areas consists of eight areas including “urban design”, “vitality”, “public participation”, “urban management”, “modern technologies”, “physical health” and “lifestyle”.

Abstract Background Identifying and intervening on health disparities requires representative community public health data. For cities with high vacancy and transient populations, traditional methods of population estimation for refining random samples are not feasible. The aim of this project was to develop a novel method for systematic observations to establish community epidemiologic samples. Results We devised a four-step population randomization observation process for Flint, Michigan, USA: (1) Use recent total population data for community areas (i.e., neighborhoods) to establish the proportional sample size for each area, (2) Randomly select street segments of each community area, (3) Deploy raters to conduct observations about habitation for each randomly selected segment, and (4) Complete observations for second and third street segments, depending on vacancy levels. We implemented this systematic observation process on 400 randomly selected street segments. Of these, 130 (32.5%) required assessment of secondary segments due to high vacancy. Among the 130 primary segments, 28 (21.5%) required assessment of tertiary (or more) segments. For 71.5% of the 400 primary street segments, there was consensus among raters on whether the dwelling inhabited or uninhabited. Conclusion Houses observed with this method could have easily been considered uninhabited via other methods. This could cause residents of ambiguous dwellings (likely to be the most marginalized residents with highest levels of unmet health needs) to be underrepresented in the resultant sample.

The settlement area of the Ohrid region extends on the shores of a homonymous lake shared between the Republics of Northern Macedonia and Albania. Despite its mountainous framing, the geographical setting of the Ohrid region provides the broadest accessible link between the Aegean and the Adriatic regions in the southern Balkans and was, vice versa, an eminent pre -condition for the formation of supra -regional networks in the past. Placed on this communication route, which is embodied by the widely known Via Egnatia, the region represented an important hub in the cultural connectivity between the Aegean, the Adriatic see, and the Balkans. As a response to the lacking of systematic investigations, this paper presents a reconstruction of the pre- and protohistoric habitation in the region. Reviewing past archaeological discoveries and recent data collected during the first two field seasons conducted within the frame of the project Frontier Studies, this paper focuses on the settlement organisation and traces its development as well as corresponding phenomena, such as connectivity and response to environmental changes, diachronically from the Neolithic down to Late Antiquity.

La question de l'intimité dans la vie privée et ma méthode d'analyse des espaces m'ont conduite à proposer dans cet article une généalogie de l'habitation en France et un tableau des différents modes de vie urbains. Cet article historique étudie ces pratiques et les sensibilités, non seulement par l'analyse des discours savants ou non, des témoignages, de la littérature, mais aussi par celle des traces matérielles concrètes et de leurs transformations, ainsi que par la succession des plans d'habitations publiés dans les traités d'architectures à différentes périodes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Spartina alterniflora introduced worldwide has impacted local Japanese ecosystems. Then the management methods of the species are seriously required. In 2019, the invasion of the species was reported at Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The vegetation of the species was grown up to 449 m2 for 5 years. However, the relationship between the habitation of the species and environmental factors remains unclear. Therefore, we made a habitat prediction model using GLM (general linear model) to define the environment of the S. alterniflora habitat of Aichi Pref., incorporating data in 2019. That measured population density, location, ignition loss of physical environmental data, pH, NaCl concentration and altitude over the sea level by us. Our analysis showed that the standardization parameter altitude over the sea level was the main effect in the predictive model (estimate 4.158) and had the greatest absolute value. And the Wald value is significantly large (42.426). Secondary the reciprocal relationship expression between the altitude and pH was high value, 1.007. The species likes the habitat that altitude is high and pH is 7.1-7.3. For the GLM, we made the distribution for the species, the reappearance is well done. Then the avoidance of the species expansion, the bank of the tidal area should erase the higher riverbed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study on Influence of environment factor on habitation of Razor Clam (Solen spp.) in the New Mudflat Area of Laem Phak Bia at Phetchaburi Province during May 2012 to April 2013. Field collection of the hard clams were carried out by line transect sampling method, using 10 line of a 100 meters transect (L1-L10). The result showed that the Razor Clam occur in silt loam sediment in the depth of 15 to 30 centimeters which composed of 27% sandy 59% siltand 14% clay. A total density of 14.19 individuals/sq.m. of Razor Clam were obtained in this study. Our survey demonstrates that the highest numberof the Razor Clam was 31.61 individuals/sq.m. in June, 21.48 individuals/sq.m. in the rainy season, 36.39 tonnes per year in the total weight and 511.94 million individuals per year in the total number. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]