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https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20140307161637

Current strategies of urban and architectural conversion as a result of increased housing demands

Milica Živković orcid.org/0000-0003-4081-6947 ; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000 Niš, Serbia
Nađa Kurtović-Folić ; Faculty of Technical Sciences, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Goran Jovanović ; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000 Niš, Serbia
Slaviša Kondić ; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000 Niš, Serbia
Mihailo Mitković ; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000 Niš, Serbia

Abstract

In the contemporary world of social and demographic changes that continuously transform and intensify the housing demands, the exploitation of existing building fund for the development of new residential environment could be a sustainable solution to the problem of overcrowding in the cities. Conversion of obsolete buildings that are out of their primary functions to residential facilities is one of the current methods of highly-urbanized areas revitalization. Since the conversion is only one of the possible methods of urban renewal, because more radical measures of building demolition and land conversion are very often applied, it is necessary to analyse the quality and suitability of this approach. The paper points out the advantages of building conversion implementation in the field of housing and explores the general characteristics of the current local and international strategies of conversion and urban regeneration.

Keywords

conversion; housing; obsolescence; sustainability

Hrčak ID:

156856

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156856

Publication date:

27.4.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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