At Home in New Zealand
| Author | : Barbara Lesley Brookes |
| Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1877242047 |
At Home In New Zealand
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Eco Home
| Author | : Melinda Williams |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2018-09-03 |
| Genre | : Ecological houses |
| ISBN | : 9780143771531 |
Everything you need to know to build, renovate or just live in an eco-friendly and sustainable way. With loads of inspirational photographs of New Zealand homes, this book is packed full of practical and accessible information. It presents the modern home by moving from room to room, to look at structural materials, furnishings and general life hacks to improve your personal green-star rating. As well as the living spaces (kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, office, living area, utility rooms and outdoor areas) it also looks at the wider issues - why make an eco home at all? Also covered are- principles of sustainable building, choosing a property, building a team of professionals, foundations and floors, the structure and the shell. In a compact and colourful package, this book is both entertaining and informative. A must-have for all people with an eco-conscience.
Passive House for New Zealand
| Author | : Jason Quinn (Building scientist) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Architecture and energy conservation |
| ISBN | : 9780473469030 |
"Our homes should be a safe haven. In this succinct, fiercely argued book, building scientist and Passive House designer Jason Quinn reminds us of all the ways New Zealand housing fails. He takes aim at the Building Code and the high cost of building average (or worse) homes. Most of all, this is a book concerned with how to do better. It makes an impassioned argument for much wider use in New Zealand of the Passive House building performance standard. Jason Quinn demolishes myths about Passive House concepts and demonstrates its relevance for New Zealand conditions. The theory is backed up with concrete examples of New Zealand’s first 24 Certified Passive Houses and concludes with the more diverse projects - apartment buildings, offices and tourist accommodation - that are being planned. Of interest to architects and architectural designers - and those among their clients who are interested in how their new home will work and feel, not just how it will look - Passive House for New Zealand is also an important read for anyone involved in the building industry and in making policy on health and housing"--Back cover.
Home Truths
| Author | : Philippa Howden-Chapman |
| Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2015-11-20 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0947492348 |
The poor standard of current housing, and the inability of too many people on low incomes to access decent housing, is causing a cascade of problems that are avoidable. Housing affordability. Unhealthy homes. Wealth inequality. Environmental sustainability. Social mobility. The state of New Zealand housing is central to many major issues confronting this country. In this wide-ranging BWB Text, leading international housing researcher Philippa Howden-Chapman reveals how New Zealand has lost its way on housing. This succinct introduction, drawing on two decades of award-winning research, helps chart a new way ahead for housing that is healthy, inclusive and sustainable.
Generation Rent
| Author | : Shamubeel Eaqub |
| Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2015-06-04 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 090832104X |
The decline of home ownership has struck at the heart of the Kiwi dream – so perhaps it is time to fashion a new one. House prices may boom or bust but the long-term trend is clear: for more New Zealanders than ever, home ownership is out of reach. Incomes simply have not kept pace with skyrocketing property prices. Generation Rent calls into question priorities at the heart of New Zealand’s identity. In this BWB Text, Shamubeel and Selena Eaqub investigate how we ended up here, and what can be done to ensure all New Zealanders – home owners and renters alike – live in affordable and secure housing.
Calling the Station Home
| Author | : Michèle D. Dominy |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780742509528 |
Combining historical, literary and ethnographic approaches, Calling the Station Home draws a fine-grained portrait of New Zealand high-country farm families whose material culture, social arrangements, geographic knowledge, and linguistic practices reveal the ways in which the social production of space and the spatial construction of society are mutually constituted. The book speaks directly to national and international debates about cultural legitimacy, indigenous land claims, and environmental resource management by highlighting settler-descendant expressions of belonging and indigeneity in the white British diaspora.
We Call it Home
| Author | : Ben Schrader |
| Publisher | : Raupo |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Public housing |
| ISBN | : 9780790009964 |
We Call It Home begins in the 19th century, when the private sector failed to provide affordable housing for the poor. This led the Liberal government to build the first state houses in 1905: workers' dwellings. It moves on to examine the state house styles -- the archetypal state house of the first Labour Government is well known, but this wasn't the only kind of state house. Schrader asks why the government seemed so keen on housing nuclear families at the expense of other family groups, and through his interviews finds out who did the chores, what they ate, and what they did together, and charts the changing structure of state house families. Finally, Schrader looks at the changing public perceptions of state housing. In the 1930s securing a state house was viewed as a 'step up', but by the 1970s it had come to be seen as a 'step down'. Why the change? It is the author's hope that We Call It Home " ... will give readers a greater understanding of the ways in which state housing has affected the lives of generations of Kiwis, and of the important role it has played in shaping New Zealand society."
The New New Zealand
| Author | : Paul Spoonley |
| Publisher | : Massey University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2020-08-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0995137870 |
In this timely book, New Zealand's best-known commentator on population trends, Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley, shows how, as New Zealand moves into the 2020s, the demographic dividends of the last 70 years are turning into deficits. Our population patterns have been disrupted. More boomers, fewer children, an ever bigger Auckland, and declining regions are the new normal. We will need new economic models, new ways of living. Spoonley says: "It is not a crisis (even if at times it feels like it), but rather something that needs to be understood and responded to. But I fear that policy-makers and politicians are not up to the challenge. That would be a crisis."
Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK
| Author | : Rosie Cox |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2021-05-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000181804 |
This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context. Drawing on in-depth interviews, examining both DIY projects and projects carried out by professional handymen, Rosie Cox explores how home improvement fits into wider social relationships and structures of inequality. Consideration is given to the importance of such work for gender and national identities, and how these identities are related to material contexts and the forms and fabric of homes. The book also highlights how home improvement can be a rewarding and valuable form of work, as well as an unrewarding and alienating endeavour. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology and human geography.
