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Built Environments I (DESST 1006)

e-Research topic 2

Public Housing Satisfaction

The South Australian Housing Trust reported that for the fifth time they had been voted the nation's best public housing authority by tenants. However, The Advertiser 2 December 2003, page 9, reported prospective Housing Trust tenants number in the vicinity of 26,000. Why are South Australian tenants the happiest in the country despite lengthy waits for Housing Trust homes?

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Hockley, Catherine and Wheatley, Kim. "Longer wait as Trust homes sold", Advertiser, 2 December 2003, page 9.

SA Housing Trust. "Best in Public Housing! Again! Fifth time in a row in 2003". Click on News to view the text.

White, Chris. "Solving the big issue of public housing", Advertiser, 21 May 2003, page 18.

"In Brief" includes "Nation's happiest tenants", Australian, 29th December 2000, page 4.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Baker, Emma. Public housing tenant relocation: residential mobility, satisfaction, and the development of a tenant's spatial decision support system. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, 2002.
Available electronically on CD-ROM (09PH B1674) and in print
Joint Store PP38266

Day, P. Land: The Elusive Quest for Social Justice, Taxation Reform and a Sustainable Planetary Environment. Brisbane, Australian Academic Publications, 1995.
Main Collection 333.730994 D274l

Hugo, Graeme. Housing demand in Adelaide. Adelaide, National Key Centre for Research and Teaching in Social Applications of Geographical Information Systems (GISCA)], 2000.
Main Collection 363.50994231 H895h

Kirwan, R. M. Financing urban infrastructure: equity and efficiency considerations. Canberra, Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1991.
Main Collection 363.58099405 A938Hb 4

South Australian Housing Trust. Urban consolidation: a record of achievement in public housing. Adelaide, South Australian Housing Trust, 1992.
Main Collection 711.58 S726u

South Australian Housing Trust. A chronological history of the SA Housing Trust, 1936-1999. Adelaide, South Australian Housing Trust, 2001.
Main Collection 363.5099423 S726c

Orchard, Lionel, "Housing policy: the national impasse and alternatives in South Australia". In Spoer, J. (ed.), Beyond the contract state: ideas for social and economic renewal in South Australia. Kent Town, S. Aust., Wakefield Press, 1999, pages 303-316.
Main Collection 339.5099423 S762b

Musterd, Sako & Wim Ostendorf, (eds) Urban segregation and the welfare state: inequality and exclusion in western cities . New York, Routledge, 1998.
Main Collection 307.76 M991u
See in particular; Chapter 1. Segregation, polarisation and social exclusion in metropolitan areas / Sako Musterd and Wim Ostendorf -- Chapter 2. Social polarisation, economic restructuring and welfare state regimes / Chris Hamnett -- Chapter 14. Welfare state effects on inequality and segregation: concluding remarks / Herman van der Wusten and Sako Musterd.

Hamnett, Chris (ed). Social geography: a reader. London; New York, Arnold, Copublished in the US, Central and South America by J. Wiley, 1996.
Main Collection 307.12 H227s
See in particular ; Chapter 1. From The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project / E. W. Burgess -- Chapter 2. Absolute Rent and the Structuring of Space by Governmental and Financial Institutions / D. Harvey and L. Chatterjee --Chapter 4. From Locality and Social Representation: Space, Discourse and Alternative Definitions of the Rural / K. H. Halfacree -- Chapter 5. "Race" and Sexuality: Challenging the Patriarchal Structuring of Urban Social Space / L. Peake --Chapter 6. From Gender, Class, and Space / G. Pratt and S. Hanson --Chapter 7. From Women and Children Last: The Poverty and Marginalization of One-parent Families / H. P. M. -- Chapter 14. Social Justice, Postmodernism and the City.

Other Articles
Remember that you can use a number of databases to find articles on the topic. The articles listed below are merely a selection, find others through Australia/New Zealand reference centre, ElectricLibrary and LexisNexis. Click here for suggestions for quick ways of effective searching.

"From ghetto to suburb (Moving to Opportunity housing program)", Economist; 7th October 1995.

Burton, Elizabeth. "The Compact City: Just or Just Compact? A Preliminary Analysis", Urban Studies, October 2000, vol. 37, page 1969.
Summary. The aim of the research described in this paper is to examine the validity of the claims that higher-density urban form promotes social equity - that is, promotes benefits for the life-chances of low-income groups.

Casey, Marcus. "The Outsiders", Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 13th May 2000, page 44.

Elliott, Peter. "The city: a fragile tension", Architecture Australia vol. 79, no. 11, 1990. pages 36-39.

Hurrell, Bronwyn, "Trust housing to be cut back; fewer built and less maintenance", Advertiser, 11th January 1999, page 2.

O'Brien, Natalie. "Home truths; our housing shame", Australian, 21st August 2000, page 2.

Penberthy, David. "Howard kills Playford public housing vision", Advertiser, (Adelaide), 5th July 1997, page 21.

Stilwell, F. "Land, inequality and regional policy", Urban Policy and Research, 17(1) (1999) pp17-24.

Wallis, Jillian. "Lessons from Villawood: the importance of spatial organisation in urban housing", Archiitectural theory review: journal of the Department of Architecture, University of Sydney, 2(2) (1997) pages 41-66.
The NSW Department of Housing is planning complete demolition of this public housing project in Sydney, built in 1981.

Woolley, Leigh. "Winning at Waterloo", Architectural review, vol. 191, no. 1145, 1992, pages 43-45.
Summary: 32 unit public housing scheme, Waterloo, Sydney. Architect: Peter Myers.

Websites
South Australian Housing Trust.

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and HANDBOOKS are useful sources for background information.

Encyclopedia of architecture, design, engineering & construction. Wiley, New York, 1990.
Reference collection 720.3 W682e
"Behavior and architecture', vol.3, pages 426-430; 'Multifamily housing', vol.4, pages 484-497. Use the index in v.5 to trace articles on other aspects of housing.

Encyclopedia of housing. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA., 1998.
Reference collection 363.503 V284e
"Residential Satisfaction', pages 484-486; 'Residential Preferences', pages 481-483. Use the index to trace articles on Design, Public Housing, etc.

Ching, F. D. K. Visual dictionary of architecture. Wiley, New York, 1997.
Reference collection 720.3 C539v
Instead of an alphabetical listing, the information is clustered around basic aspects of architecture with words placed in their visual context. Included are fundamental terms relating to architectural design, history and technology.

Fleming, J. Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. 5th ed. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1998.
Reference collection 720.1 F597p
"Urban design", page 590-596.

The following handbooks present guidelines for architectural design over a range of activities, building types, and environments. These follow European or North American precedents, remember to check with Australian codes.

Architect's data. (Neufert) 3rd ed. Oxford, Blackwell Science Publishers, 2000.
Reference collection 721.0212 N482a.3

Metric handbook: planning and design data. 2nd ed. Oxford, Architectural Press, 1999.
Reference collection 721.0212 N532.2

Time-saver standards for architectural design data: the reference of architectural fundamentals. 7th ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Reference collection 721.0212 C157t.7

Time-saver standards for architectural lighting. New York, McGraw Hill, 2000.
Reference collection 621.32 S817t

Time-saver standards for landscape architecture: design and construction data. 2nd ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Reference collection 712.0212 H313t.2

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Use INDEXES and DATABASES to find what articles or papers have been written on your topic.

These databases use Boolean operators, in most cases it is safe to use the words AND or OR (with brackets) but there may be other codes used for truncation, such as an asterisk *. Search notes are provided for each database but if you don't get the results you expect, please check with the Architecture Librarian, Kay Leverett.

The databases listed below include information on social and urban design aspects of public housing.

for Australian conditions see
ARCH - indexes Australian architectural and design journals.   click here for search notes
APA-FT - also known as APAIS, indexes a range of Australian journals in the social sciences, full text provided from 1995 for some 200 journals.   For search notes see ARCH
Australia/New Zealand reference centre- indexes articles in journals and major newspapers from Australia and New Zealand.      click here for search notes
BUILD - from the CSIRO, indexes journals, books and research reports on building and construction in Australia.   For search notes see ARCH
ElectricLibrary - includes full text of major Australian newspapers, some general encyclopedias and journals.     click here for search notes

international databases include
EAI: Expanded Academic Index - covers a wide range of journals. Provides full text for many of the articles. click here for search notes
Avery Index - an international index for architectural and design journals. click here for search notes
GEOBASE - an international index of articles, books and research reports on urban geography. For search techniques see ARCH
LexisNexis - a huge international database; includes full text of Australian newspapers. click here for search notes

This is only a small selection of possible databases, if you don't find what you need here, please come and see me, Kay Leverett, Architecture Librarian, or contact me by phone (8303 4659) or email: kay.leverett@adelaide.edu.au