Abstract:
Needs and life cycle have an important impact on housing communities
opposite/matching generations vision, era and concepts. It can be recognized as a
broad term that covers many aspects shaping communities. For example, it generates
collective local images, which might be passed from generation to another for
conductivity.
The scope of housing communities, as being a form, is reshaped and reformed over
ages. Different state policies may result different urban growth patterns. Since
communities sometimes copes and adapts with its people and some times not, the
main objective is to strengthen the relationship between the need and form.
The study aims to understanding: (1) the users' needs, (2) the combination of youth
and elder (household composition) in the social pattern and how this mixture affects
the development of housing communities, (3) housing for low-income versus housing
for high-income and how the variety may lead to growth and regeneration, and (4)
the different scenarios of plots or dwellings housing and how these scenarios can
regenerate the image of housing community over time (case study).
This paper discusses the impact of generation and regeneration on housing
communities with special reference to concrete examples and cases. The methodology
consists of three main parts, first defining key items of life cycle and life needs
occurred within selected communities as a result of surveys and interviews in housing
communities. Second the paper will analyze the interactive relationship between
housing policy, the achievement goals and mobilizing the housing sector to act in the
right track. Third, key changes will be highlighted that affected the communities
according to time, image, regeneration, and the corresponding outcomes. Finally, the
paper concludes a proposal of how housing communities can be regenerated.