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ARCHITECTONICS

From Cosmic Theories to Urban Development

Dr. Hossam Aboulfotouh

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ARE-230

Elective Course on

HOUSING

Course description and

Schedule of lectures

HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

TENTH OF RAMADAN CITY

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

Dr. Hossam Aboulfotouh

1- Core objective of the Course:

The elective course on housing enables the students to understand how the housing market works, who are the main producers of houses, what are the physical and non-physical aspects that affect the design of housing projects. It enables the students to be aware about the international dialogues for formulating the housing policies for the less developed countries and being a pro-active and knowledgeable negotiator with international organizations, central government and the local communities for funding, designing and delivering housing project for the urban poor.

2- Relation to other Courses:

Houses are both architectural and physical planning components and therefore, the housing course is related to the courses of architecture design studio, theory of architecture, and physical/urban planning. Besides, housing as a provision and delivery process depends on the students' analytical background that he gained by attending other technical and mathematical courses as well as the basic information of building construction, environmental , and legislative courses.

3- Teaching methodology:

It is based on series of lectures (13 in total), explaining to the students the array of the up-to-date theories, concepts, models, and approaches on housing/houses and its allied technical disciplines. After each lecture the students will be asked to do an application on the highlighted subject, either in term of analytic quiz, research paper or data collection project.

4- Grading system:

Term work: 20%

Mid-Term Exams: 40%

Final-term Exam: 40%

5- Schedule of lectures

Schedule of Lectures
week	Topic
1	Basic definitions and terminologies, e.g., housing, houses, dwelling unit, population, household, tenants, owner, landlord, neighborhood, occupancy rate, crowding, densities, housing demand and supply, etc.
2	Provision and delivery of houses by private and public sectors.
3	Housing demand and supply: basic economic models.
4	Affordability theory/ market values of houses/housing rent/cost estimate/down payment/installments/subsidies.
5	First Mid-Term Exam
6	Types of houses from caves/tents to palaces.
7	Cluster of houses/tenements/Khans/Wekalas/khetas/Harahs,etc.
8	Formal and informal houses and legal/illegal land subdivision; and Housing projects for the urban poor: Site and services projects.
9	Second Mid-Term Exam
10	Basic demographic and socio-economic data for housing projects.
11	Socio-cultural dimensions for the design of housing projects and conserving local identity.
12	Housing policies: national and international; and legal aspects: rent control law, property tax law, etc.
13	Non-conventional housing finance models/ Housing funds by National and International Organizations.

International bibliographies on Urban Housing:

- World Bank reposts/agendas/working-papers: www.worldbank.org

- UN-Habitat reports/agendas/working-papers: www.unhabitat.org

- Reports of Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies: www.ihs.nl

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