Flexible housing: opportunities and limits

Tatjana Schneider; Jeremy Till

doi:10.1017/S1359135505000199

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Flexibility in housing design has social, economic and environmental advantages and yet is currently often ignored. The first of two papers sets out the history of this issue.

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