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The Affordable Housing Design Advisor is a website completed under contract to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that provides affordable housing tools, a gallery of exemplary projects and a design checklist.
http://www.designadvisor.org (September 26, 2001).

 

Publications

Bayor, Ronald H. 1982. Neighborhoods in urban America. Port Washington, NY: National University Publications.

Brower, Sidney. 1996. Good neighborhoods: a study of in-town & suburban residential environments. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Franck, Karen A. and Ahrentzen, Sherry, eds. 1989. New households, new housing. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Friedman, Avi. 2001. The Grow Home. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Jones, Tom; Pettus AIA, William; & Pyatok, FAIA, Michael. 1995. Good neighbors: affordable family housing. Melbourne, Australia: The Images Publishing Group Pty. Ltd.

Marcus, Clare Cooper and Sarkissian, Wendy with Wilson, Sheena and Perlgut, Donald. 1986. Housing as if people mattered: site design guidelines for medium-density family housing. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Nasar, Jack. 1998. The evaluative image of the city. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Taylor, Lisa. 1990. Housing: symbol, structure, site. New York: Rizzoli.

van Vliet, Willem; Choldin, Harvey; Michelson, William; and Popenoe, David. 1987. Housing and neighborhoods: theoretical and empirical contributions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

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