History Of House Research Articles

Exploring perspectives on healthy housing among low-income prospective residents of a future co-housing “Microvillage” in Geelong, Australia

ABSTRACT Housing unaffordability coupled with a decrease in social housing availability, have contributed to a greater proportion of Australians, including older people and those on low incomes, privately renting. While co-housing has been proposed as a solution to these issues, little is known about the potential ability of co-housing to offer healthy housing. This paper presents a qualitative research study of low-income potential residents’ perspectives on a “Microvillage” in Geelong, a large regional city outside of Melbourne. We conducted two focus groups with potential residents, as well as a series of semi-structured interviews with a sample of older women interested in the Microvillage. Data was analyzed thematically, with the Housing and Health Framework used to guide interpretation. Findings revealed potential residents felt a co-housing community like the proposed Microvillage supported health by offering residents a secure and affordable “home”; a “dwelling” that met diverse needs; a supportive “community” with shared values and interests; and access to amenities in the “immediate environment.” Findings provide further evidence toward the benefits of co-housing, particularly for low-income residents with challenging housing histories, and supports its consideration as a potential solution to Australia’s increasing housing issues.

An awkward contaminant: are mercury concentrations in historically collected fossils a result of storage conditions?

High concentrations of mercury (Hg), reaching astonishing values in two cases, have recently been detected in Middle and Late Triassic fossil reptile bones, housed for over 100 years in several Polish museum collections. Since no correlation between either the life modes of these taxa or their burial environment was observed, the studied contaminations seem to be associated with housing conditions. The specimens were kept for an extended amount of time in boxes, in which they were stored soon after finding. A proximity of mercury-containing materials, like mercury fulminate, and unstandardized conditions of storage and conservation of the remains may result in contamination of porous bone with mercury. A detailed knowledge about the housing history of old museum collections has great importance to their prospective studies.

The deterioration of the Pueblo Bonito Great House in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, USA.

Pueblo Bonito is the iconic pre- Columbian structure in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a World Heritage Site in northwestern New Mexico, USA. The structure, dating to about 850–1150 Current Era, and built of quarried sandstones, wooden timbers and a mud mortar, has been the subject of archaeological investigations for over a century. The present study is based on the examination of historical photographs of Pueblo Bonito dating from 1887 to the 1920s. It is a retrospective assessment to determine if structural damages, depicted on the photographs, could be attributed to identifiable agents that might have been present at the time of Pueblo Bonito occupancy. A likely causal agent of deterioration at Pueblo Bonito was the inability of Ancestral Puebloan engineers to manage the impacts from the annual precipitation, presently measured at about 220 mm. A resulting time-dependent event was rot to wetted roof and ceiling timbers, lintels, and wall support beams which required decades of incubation by wood decay fungi to reduce wood tensile strength to levels leading to roof and wall collapse. Important time- independent events that could occur any time after construction include water action on the mud mortar which resulted in unstable gravity load paths in stone walls, ponding of water in walls which when frozen would lead to the blowout of wall segments, and the occasional flood that disrupted foundations. Pueblo Bonito may have been an occupation site for centuries but the lifetime of individually constructed rooms may have only been decades, resulting in several build- repair- or abandon cycles being part of the history of that Great House.

Museum-making in Bihar: A History of House of History and How Biharis Contributed to Retelling their own History

Museum-making in Bihar: A History of House of History and How Biharis Contributed to Retelling their own History

Publishing House of the Third Wave “Syntaxis” in France (1980–1992)

For the first time, the history of the publishing house of the third wave of Russian emigration “Syntaxis” is reconstructed, a brief outline of the history of the journal of the same name is given. The article provides a historiographic review of the study of the topic. The sources for funding the journal and the publishing house are identified. The activity of the “Syntaxis” printing house and the reasons of its origin are reconstructed. The role of the owners and founders of the publishing house M. V. Rozanova and A. D. Sinyavsky in the activities of the publishing house is shown. Particular attention is paid to the wellknown books by A. D. Sinyavsky. The publishing policy of “Syntaxis” is analysed. The thematic and typological analysis of its products is given. The publishing house has discovered the names of E. Limonov, V. Sorokin and others that are popular with modern Russian readers. Memoirs by A. Z. Steinberg attract the attention of scientists of various profiles. Non-traditional editions of “Syntaxis”are of interest to domestic and foreign bibliophiles and antiquarians. The activities of the publishing house “Maryina Roshcha” – a branch of “Syntaxis” is shown. Special attention is paid to the illustrators of the publishing house.

“Will You Work with Me?”: Visual Worksheets as Facilitators of Inclusive, Collaborative, and Empowering Interviews with Vulnerable Populations

Vulnerable populations are often excluded from research interviews, as they are considered too difficult to reach. If included, they often face barriers that obstruct active participation and collaboration among participants, such as low literacy levels, a lack of confidence, and mistrust. Based on a body of texts that deal with the inclusion of vulnerable participants, I have developed a methodology aimed at promoting substantive social impact on researched communities. I propose visually based worksheets as a tool to give voice to often silenced individuals, to contribute to social change and justice. In this article, I explore the possibilities of visual methods to facilitate interviews and encourage greater levels of participation. With the use of selected visual methods—image elicitation, drawings, diagrams, and card-based games incorporated into graphic worksheets—I demonstrate how to address low levels of participant cooperation and understanding of interview tasks. This article is based on extensive fieldwork in the form of interviews with people living in poverty in the Czech Republic. Through the example of five of the 17 worksheets I designed, I illustrate the motivations and thought processes that stand behind their creation. The worksheets are aimed at the inclusion of vulnerable populations and bringing their voices into the research while focusing on crucial topics such as housing history, debts and obligations, debt repayment, and financial distress.

From the history of the kazakh state publishing house. Akhmet Baytursynov and Smagul Sadvokasov

The article draws attention to the current tasks of the Kazakh government KyrCEC in the field of creating an autonomous state publishing house. The methodological aspect lies in  the historical parallels between the tasks of preserving state identity and territorial integrity at the beginning of the 20th century and the national values ​​that the deputies of the State Duma made inquiries about. The continuity of the stages of Alash and Soviet Kazakhstan is unconditional. It is known that at the stage of statehood in the 1920s–1930s, journalism as a tool of mass communication occupied a special place. In the bibliography of the topic, there are no in-depth studies on the establishment of continuity in the practice of social inquiries, using the example of Kazakhstan. The purpose of the study is to reconstruct the conditions in which publicism of the Alash elite were created on the basis of interdisciplinary methods and sources. The article analyzes the contribution of A. Baitursunov, M. Auezov, A. Dosov, A. Ermekov, K. Satpayev, S. Sadvokasov and other Alash activists on topical issues. The research methodology is based on an interdisciplinary approach, analysis and synthesis of sources based on the principles of dialectics, verification of the reliability of sources. The scientific and practical significance of the study is concentrated on the topic of national-cultural and state identity in the interpretation of the Alash leaders. Their contribution to the promotion of informative messages is invaluable. The systematization of the views of the Alash elite in matters of mass communication will be the basis for building the content and methodology of the modern architecture of the media and book publishing of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Keywords: Kazakhstan; Alash; Kazakh State Publishing House; media design; journalism; Shaimerdenov Kosshygul; Baitursynov Akhmet; Sadvokasov Smagul. &nbsp

The Master's House

Abstract: This essay focuses on the specific location and history of The Great House in Port-of Spain, Trinidad, to open out a Black Atlantic exposé of networks of imperial global domination, Indigenous genocide, and plantation slavery. The essay works through Audre Lorde's essay "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" and Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism to model how Black and Caribbean thinkers enable an antiracist critique of eighteenth-century studies that persists in disavowing its violent colonial histories and legacies.

The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age

The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age

Mapping socio-physical legacies of Emirati villas: contingency and spatial continuity or rift

UAE urban housing and planning history discourses commonly assume a sharp division between the pre-oil (before the 1950s) and the post-oil (since the 1960s) eras. It is a misleading assumption that flattens historical legacies and exempts pre-oil tribal and maritime built landscape from having a bearing on the emergence of more recent ‘iconic’ villas for the Emiratis/UAE citizens. Besides, status quo urban narratives are further dismissive of non-iconic citizen centric modern housing prototypes of the late 1960s. In this context, our approach is to illustrate the intertwined evolution of contingent driven dwelling features, changes as well as continuities across the pre-oil and post-oil eras. By interconnecting history with user-led spatial changes in current Emirati houses, we argue that, while sustainability has become more of a catchphrase and the ‘iconic' villa façade—the marketing brand, the concept, acceptance, and spatial realization are indeed set by historical overlays of local and transnational experimentation, arbitration, and adaptation. Thus, the current design and policy led national housing prototypes would be corrective, regenerative and successful if assembled through an iterative design process that accommodates emerging sustainable frameworks as well as user-driven spatial interventions. This approach sustains the socio-physical legacies of the Emirati houses and their cultural legitimacy in the built-environment.

Joglo Pencu Traditional House of Kudus Indonesia

This study emphasizes two problems: (1) What is the history of the traditional house of Kudus Joglo Pencu and its development; (2) What are the meanings and values in the Joglo Pencu traditional house. This study finds the Islamic meanings, decorations, and architectural arts found in the Kudus traditional house. The approach used in this research is architectural-anthropology. This theory explains the relationship between function, form and meaning in four stages, namely heuristics, interpretation, interpretation, and historiography. The results of this study indicate that the traditional house of Kudus Joglo Pencu existed in 1500 AD with original teak wood through the roles of Sunan Kudus and Kiai Telingsing. The form of this Kudus traditional house architecture is the development of Javanese traditional houses which are influenced by Chinese, European, and Persian cultures. The traditional house of Kudus Joglo Pencu has Islamic values such as on the top of the roof of the king's roof with plant motifs that humans live must take refuge in Allah.

Comparative Analysis of Qajar Historic Houses in Tabriz, Isfahan, Yazd, and Kashan, Regarding their Architectural Forms and Elements

There are a lot of precious beautiful Qajar houses in many cities of Iran indicating the high quality of talents and wisdom of their architects. Using a row of columns in the main façade, emphasizing on symmetry axis in the entrance, and replacing the new ornamental patterns with the ancient elements are some of the architectural qualities of this era. This article attempts to answer the question that what are the similar characteristics of Qajar houses in different cities of Iran. For achieving this aim, the history of Iranian houses especially in the Qajar period is studied in Tabriz, Isfahan, Yazd, and Kashan cities. The methodology of this historic survey is comparative and qualitative using the reliable books of libraries and first-hand resources. This article concludes that the architects in that era harmonized the culture of other countries to improve their own values according to their own culture and climate.

Русское издательство «Третья волна» в эмигрантский период 1976–1990 гг.

For the first time, the history of the nonconformist publishing house «Third Wave» is being reconstructed under the journal of the same name. The role of the famous collector A. D. Glezer. Provides a historiographic review of the study of the topic. Unusual nonconformist books of the «Third Wave» and authors S. D. Dovlatov, V. E. Maksimov, Yu. V. Mamleev, A. P. Platonov, Yu. K. Therapiano and others attract the attention of modern domestic readers. A thematic and typological analysis of the publishing house’s products is given. The article analyses the memoirs published by A. D. Glezer, B. G. Bazhanova, O. Ya. Rabin, M. R. Kheifits and an anthology about N. S. Gumilev. Shows the art history and cultural nature of the orientation of the publishing house “Third Wave”. The participation of famous artists-emigrants V. Dlugi, M. M. Shemyakin, A. L. Khvostenko, Bakhchanyan, G. I. Kopelyan, O. N. Tselkova et al. The role and influence of the publishing house in the culture of the third emigration is analysed. The circulation of books and albums of the Third Wave publishing house is being revealed. The unrealized plans of the publishing house were revealed.

A review of tiny houses in North America: Market demand

The history, status quo, and prospect of tiny houses in North America were reviewed. The market demand for tiny houses in North America was analyzed according to the needs in various market segments, such as shelters for low-income and homeless people, recreational housing for vacationers, and the restoration and reconstruction after disasters. This study also discussed tiny housing communities for retirees, tourism companies offering tiny housing accommodation, and government-sponsored tiny housing projects for post-disaster reconstruction. Throughout years of promotion by tiny house enthusiasts, medium advocators, and construction practitioners, more and more people have come to realize the advantages of the tiny houses made of wood, such as energy conservation, low carbon footprint, and sustainable development. In summary, the market for tiny house in North America is in a stage of rapid development.

Szafa z kochankami. Praktyki przesłaniania, odsłaniania i zasłaniania historii Obór w twórczości Mirona Białoszewskiego

The aim of this article is to capture one of the unveilings of the history of the manor house in Obory, near Warsaw, and to analyse the principle structuring the essence of transformation of this place in Miron Białoszewski’s work. Using the geocritical method, the author examinesthe relationship between characters and things related to this place selected by Białoszewski and the poetics he used. The frequently recurring motif of the wardrobe was juxtaposed with the analys is of inventories andwills belonging to the owner of the manor at the turn of the 17th and18th centuries, which are preserved in The Central Archivesof Historical Records in Warsaw. The main part of the article is devoted to the aestheticsand functions of 18th-century furniture in relation to the context of thecourt culture of that time, which Białoszewski explored poetically. In his works he played out the tension between the covering and uncovering ofthe secrets hidden in the complicated security systems of baroque furniture.This tension accumulates in the spatial nature of Obory: it is a remoteand hidden place. Its location allowed Białoszewski to practice covering, uncovering and recovering the history of the manor. These practices notonly constituted the structuring principle of the writer’spoetics, but they also open up the possibility of following the transformations of places of such semantic complexity as Obory. They allow us to capture the dynamics of changes that often involve inverting their previous meanings, e.g. in the context of agricultural reform, and also help to expose the related conflicts.

Конфуций во «Всемирной литературе». Доклад В.М. Алексеева о китайском философе в 1921 году (по материалам Архива А.М. Горького ИМЛИ РАН)

The article introduces an unknown report of the sinologist V.M. Alekseev on the alleged translation of Confucius, made at the editorial Board of the publishing house “World Literature,” into scientific circulation. The speech preserved in the typewritten record of the meeting of April 1, 1921, represents a prominent event both in the history of the publishing house itself and in the history of Russian Sinology. The presented material shows that the “World Literature” was not only a publishing institution of the first years of Soviet power, but also a major scientific center, where it was possible to gather leading writers and scientists. The attached report by V.M. Alekseev is supplemented by an extended discussion, which clearly illustrates the scientific level of the debates that were conducted in the “World Literature” during the preparation of the majority of both published and conceived books. At the same time, the published report is valuable as an independent research covering the history of the study of Confucius, existing translations, as well as the domestic reception of Chinese philosopher’s teachings.

A Comprehensive Study on Environmental Pollution and Pregnancy Outcomes

Vehicular traffic contributes significantly to the pollution of air and neighborhood noise. Since there is increasing affirmation that ambient air pollution hurts reproductive health, which is less known regarding the relationship between traffic noise and pregnancy outcomes. Many researchers have investigated all the possible adverse effects of ambient air pollution on birth outcomes during the last decade or so. We examined these studies, which were discovered by thoroughly searching the major scientific databases. Overall, research suggests that air pollution and noise pollution significantly impact birth outcomes, while the quality of the deposition varies. Researchers utilized connected administrative health data sources to discover pregnancy outcomes with detailed covariate data (gender, contemporary lifestyle, total no of pregnancies, birth month and year, and so on), earnings and education, and mother housing history. Using the deterministic model (CadnaA) and air pollutants exposure, they assessed noise exposure during pregnancy by assessing temporally adjusted land-use regression. Noise exposure is related to reduced birth weight. We also looked into various processes to prevent air pollution and noise. As a result of the policy change and technical innovation, the government, authorities, and industry have been at the forefront of combating pollution. Pollution levels in and around people's homes and workplaces are typically beyond their control. However, few things may be done to mitigate the impacts of contaminated air.

In the name of housing

Ludwig Hilberseimer in his 1925 book Groszstadtbauten talks about the relation of city form to the form of the smallest single architectural unit; a room within a house. This commentary is further validated by the fact that the residential fabric of any city comprises most that city’s built form, and housing for the common man is a large part of that majority. This essay focuses on history of architecture for the housing of this majority in the city of Mumbai. the tie between Mumbai’s form and its inhabitation. Looking specifically at the architectural form of these projects, they become instructive both through the breadth of their variations, as well as the depth of their spatial and formal engagements. Building on the history of housing in Mumbai since the early-nineteenth century the essay presents the types of housing that the ordinary man inhabited and their immediate spatial ecologies that facilitated a specific manner of compressed living. These types are commentaries on technology, lifestyle, and culture all situated within the particularities of their respective time. These armatures however unique, still seem to gravitate around certain emergent commonalities which could provide a armature for the design of collective housing models in the future.

612. Empowering Patients with Addiction to Self-Administer Parenteral Antibiotics at Home: A Pilot Project

Abstract Background Nearly 20% of people in the United States use drugs each year. People who use drugs (PWUD) are predisposed to complex infections that require long term intravenous (IV) antibiotics. A frequent clinical quandary in PWUD is safe administration of extended IV antibiotics. Current standard of care is IV antibiotic administration in skilled nursing facilities. In this system, PWUD frequently do not finish antibiotic therapy, resulting in avoidable complications of untreated infections and increased healthcare utilization. We present a pilot study of ten patients with a history of addiction who required long-term IV antibiotics to evaluate the feasibility of self administered outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (S-OPAT) for PWUD. Methods Ten patients who had a history of mild addiction and stable housing, social support and transportation were enrolled at Parkland Health and Hospital System to complete S-OPAT. We extracted demographic, drug use, clinical and access to care variables and patients were followed with weekly clinical appointments. Addiction severity was defined using the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) -Modified ASSIST Score. We completed post-intervention surveys to evaluate the impact of the intervention on provider-patient trust. Results A total of 10 patients were enrolled in S-OPAT (Table 1). The patients were 48 years old on average, all were male and seven were Hispanic. All patients had stimulant use disorder and no patients had commercial insurance. Treated infections were bone/ joint and skin/soft tissue in origin. All patients completed their antibiotic course, nearly all appointments were attended (96%) and there were no 30-day hospital readmissions (Table 2). More than two-third of patients experienced improvement in addiction severity with progress in multiple psychosocial factors including housing instability, social support and legal problems (Figure 1; Table 2). Table 1. Demographic, substance use and clinical variables among people who use drugs enrolled in the pilot project for S-OPAT (N=10). Table 2. Clinical, drug use and psychosocial outcomes among people who use drugs and received S-OPAT (N=10). Addiction severity was defined using the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) -Modified ASSIST Score. Figure 1. Progression of addiction severity before and after completion of self-administered outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy pilot among patients with a history of drug use (N=10). Addiction severity was defined using the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) -Modified ASSIST Score. Conclusion We demonstrate that PWUD can successfully complete S-OPAT with simultaneous improvement in addiction severity and psychosocial factors. We hope to create a framework for the patient-centered administration of extended courses of antibiotics for PWUD and to advocate for the expansion of individualized approaches to extended courses of IV antibiotics for PWUD. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures

The Wages of Harlotry—Luise White’s The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (1990–2020)

Abstract In “The Wages of Harlotry,” Kenda Mutongi examines the historiographical significance of Luise White’s The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (1990). She argues that White’s main contribution has been connecting the history of prostitution in Nairobi to histories of family, labor, sexuality, gender, colonial state, housing, urban life, and political economy—that is, White is a pioneer in writing entangled, layered, and intersectional histories that have an enduring influence today despite early skepticism about her work. Drawing partly on scholars’ solicited reminiscences of teaching and reading the book, Mutongi shows that White has been a fierce feminist and a fascinatingly eclectic African historian. To fully understand the influence of White’s book, Mutongi argues, we have to go beyond what we read between its covers and talk with people who lived and worked with White while she was researching and writing the book as well as those who have taught it to different generations of students over the last thirty years.