Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
WOMEN AND LOW-INCOME HOUSING TRANSFORMATION IN UGANDA
Design considerations that are essential to attain low-income women convenience with their housing are: its capacity to accommodate women's triple roles, their potential for incremental development and their ability for segmentation into autonomous housing units to allow for their flexible, economic and functional use. In uganda, more than 50% of the urban population reside in informal settlements that are characterized by substandard housing conditions (moHL&ud, 2008). uganda government launched housing projects to regulate those settlements and provide their residents with appropriate housing. in uganda, low-income women were acknowledged as the most marginalized with respect to housing. To demonstrate commitment towards reducing lowincome women marginalization in housing, one of those low-income housing projects, masese Women Housing Project (mWHP) was assigned to target women as its main beneficiaries. Larsson (2001) argues that the gender-neutrality with which housing is perceived as an objective and rational activity that does not need to focus on men and women in particular, caused the provision of design solutions that often side-line woman's perspectives and aspirations to their housing. ironically, in most patriarchal societies such as uganda, while men are held responsible for housing provision, its adjustments to make it a convenient home for its households is usually considered a woman role (Kishindo, 2003). in effect, women become responsible for modifying the design inconveniences that are created by professionals, usually men, who are ignorant of housing design conditions that are favourable to women (Weisman, 1994:89). Other than making women's efforts in appropriating their housing visible, this article aims...
WOMEN AND LOW-INCOME HOUSING TRANSFORMATION IN UGANDA
Design considerations that are essential to attain low-income women convenience with their housing are: its capacity to accommodate women's triple roles, their potential for incremental development and their ability for segmentation into autonomous housing units to allow for their flexible, economic and functional use. In uganda, more than 50% of the urban population reside in informal settlements that are characterized by substandard housing conditions (moHL&ud, 2008). uganda government launched housing projects to regulate those settlements and provide their residents with appropriate housing. in uganda, low-income women were acknowledged as the most marginalized with respect to housing. To demonstrate commitment towards reducing lowincome women marginalization in housing, one of those low-income housing projects, masese Women Housing Project (mWHP) was assigned to target women as its main beneficiaries. Larsson (2001) argues that the gender-neutrality with which housing is perceived as an objective and rational activity that does not need to focus on men and women in particular, caused the provision of design solutions that often side-line woman's perspectives and aspirations to their housing. ironically, in most patriarchal societies such as uganda, while men are held responsible for housing provision, its adjustments to make it a convenient home for its households is usually considered a woman role (Kishindo, 2003). in effect, women become responsible for modifying the design inconveniences that are created by professionals, usually men, who are ignorant of housing design conditions that are favourable to women (Weisman, 1994:89). Other than making women's efforts in appropriating their housing visible, this article aims...
WOMEN AND LOW-INCOME HOUSING TRANSFORMATION IN UGANDA
Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa (Autor:in)
2017
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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