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Housing the Future

Housing The Future: Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow offers three perspectives on the problems of housing today with an eye on tomorrow. It brings together world-leading practising architects with academics from seven countries and teams of international students. World leaders in the field of residential design such as UN Habitat Award winner Avi Friedman present built projects whose design criteria and aims they lay out in text. Academics from the UK, the USA, Spain, Germany and elsewhere follow these project descriptions with extended essays from a more theoretical perspective but remain focused on the realities of practice. Finally, ideas on current housing problems from the next generation of designers are brought together in student projects from Europe and North America. With an introduction by Dr Graham Cairns, this book highlights the practice of residential design internationally at a time when affordable housing provision is seen as a critical issue by designers, planners and policy makers alike.

Home at Last

The departure point and underlying theme of this book is the conviction that people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities have the right to a lifestyle which is both meaningful and as independent as possible. It follows the attempts to help two young women with disabilities achieve their dream of a home of their own, supported by twenty-four hour care. Two of the authors are their parents. Home at Last is an indispensable source of information for parents, carers and social workers, offering practical knowledge, guidance and expertise, including details of planning and financing, for setting up a home-support scheme and making it work successfully. It gives an insight into the practical realities of new patterns of living in the community for those with the most profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.