City a human zoo

Home-House-Housing
Types of Housing
Formal Housing & Real State
Development
Informal Settlement & Social Housing

LECTURE 02
The city is not a concrete jungle. It’s a human zoo
Desmond Moris
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HOME
According to Turner
fulfill the basic domestic and functional aspects of family life
“Housing”
is not a product but it is a process
HOUSE
“an institution, not just a structure, created for a complex set of purpose”
Amos Rapaport
 Definition of Housing by WHO (World Health Organization ) :

“ Ansafeenclosed environment in which man finds protection and feels

and secured from hostile forces and can function with
increased comfort and satisfaction as regards to privacy to the
individual and his family. The environment must include all “
necessity , services, facilities, equipments and devises needed for
physical and social well being of the family or the individual.
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fundamental
Basic community
purposefacilities
of housing
includes
includes
-

a.SAFETY
Easy access to people
of the school.
physical, emotional and social
b. Healthy andhealth of the
medical individual in relation to
facilities.
COMMUNAL LIFE
c. Shopping, recreation and cultural institution.
provision of families and community FACILITIES
d. Reasonable travel time to and from the place of work.
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House Housing
Simple More complex, extensive
Housing includes multiple houses or
House is one
accommodations
Housing includes living accommodations,
Houses includes only the living their supporting maintenance and control
accommodation mechanism

Ownership of properties extends up to Exists another type of ‘group’ or ‘semi-

the boundary walls public’ ownership
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House
Built form doesn’t have reference to:
*Livability condition
*Quality of designer
*Visual beauty
*Safety
*Approval of authority
Housing
Built form does have reference to:
*Certain Livability condition
*Designed by Architects
*Soundness of construction
*Safety
*Approval of authority of the Government
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HOUSING is a vast subject

procurement and development of LAND
provisions of INFRASTRUCTURE and SERVICE
allocation or SALE of PLOT
survey for DESIGN and PLANNING
CONSTRUCTION
REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT
FINANCE
maintenance of PUBLIC INTEREST and SAFETY etc.
 Types of Housing
Housing
Formal sector Informal sector
Defined address, employment, bank account, Has no specific employment, address and living
social security and government initiative Standard and no government initiative

Built with money often from private source, bank
Grows through a system
Built with permanent or semi-permanent
materials
Designed by professionals
Example : Rajuk plots, University quarters, etc
Informal sector people stay in roads, slums and
squatters having no physical or other facilities
Grows without any formal system
Building are made of temporary materials
Designed by self initiative
Example : squatters beside the rail line, lake,etc
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Japan
Garden City
Informal Settlement & Social Housing
Informal Settlement & Social Housing
 Shelter :
Shelter is a place where a man can take refuge in emergency or
on temporary basis.

- Only “use rights” , No ownership right. Example: Agora,

Cyclone shelter, winter shelter.

Squatter :
Make-shift shelters on land which they have no right , authority,
or ownership.

Slum :
Inferior type of accommodation on land with ownership rights or
some sort of right of use. Example : Railway colony slum.
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