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Broken : healing people, injecting social infrastructure and rethinking housing design
- Author
- Cummings, John Raymond, Jr., author.
- Title
- Broken : healing people, injecting social infrastructure and rethinking housing design / John Raymond Cummings Jr.
- Format
- E-Book
- Published
- [New Albany, Indiana] : Indiana University ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2023.
- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 108 pages) : illustrations (some color) Thesis M.I.S. Indiana University 2023
- URL
- Access for [All Campuses] - (Available on campus and off campus with authorized logon)
- Other contributors
- Indiana University Southeast. degree granting institution.
- Portion of title
- Healing people, injecting social infrastructure and rethinking housing design
- Notes
- "December 2023." "Master of Interdisciplinary studies, Indiana University Southeast." Advisor: Melanie Hughes. Includes bibliographical references.
- Summary
- Residents in low-income communities are lacking in resources, in the northern central region of Kentucky, people in need of assistance are going without the valuable basic resources they need. The needs of low-income residents leave them in a vulnerable "broken" position. Residents in these communities lack options for training, careers, networking, and opportunities to experience life outside of the norm of the urban, low-income public housing socio-economic circle. If these deficits could be reduced or eliminated the strain on public housing would not be so detrimental to the sustainability of the largely minority and/or low-income neighborhood. Snowball sampling and interviews resulted in professional suggestions in social sciences, public housing, urban planning, engineering, and architecture. These ideas produced a proposed low-income housing strategy. This data informed architectural renderings for a possible cohousing project. The process utilizes the knowledge of forward-thinking views of social services, urban planners, public housing experts, and architects to create renderings and 3D models that serve as examples of how this integrated solution to low-income housing could be effectively implemented in a community. When residents can achieve basic standards of living, they are more able to advance and lead sustainable lives that are fulfilling and productive. Improvement in minority and low-income neighborhoods will increase when safety, knowledge, skills, education, and mentorship are the foundation of lives.
- Subject headings
- Poor families--Housing--Kentucky. Low-income housing--Kentucky. Community development, Urban. Housing and health--Kentucky. Architecture and society. Housing policy--Kentucky.
- Genre heading
- Academic theses.