Viable housing is more than houses: a report on South Africa's enabling infrastructure

Wall, Kevin

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dc.contributor.other	IAHS World Congress on Housing (33rd : 2005 : Pretoria, South Africa)
dc.contributor.upauthor	Wall, Kevin
dc.date.accessioned	2009-06-12T07:57:03Z
dc.date.available	2009-06-12T07:57:03Z
dc.date.issued	2005-09
dc.description	Authors of papers in the proceedings and CD-ROM ceded copyright to the IAHS and UP. Authors furthermore declare that papers are their original work, not previously published and take responsibility for copyrighted excerpts from other works, included in their papers with due acknowledgment in the written manuscript. Furthermore, that papers describe genuine research or review work, contain no defamatory or unlawful statements and do not infringe the rights of others. The IAHS and UP may assign any or all of its rights and obligations under this agreement.	en
dc.description.abstract	Paper presented at the XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing, 27-30 September 2005,"Transforming Housing Environments through Design", University of Pretoria.	en
dc.description.abstract	Viable housing needs more than just the construction of the houses -- indeed it is about more than just the houses themselves. It is also about providing and then operating and maintaining municipal engineering infrastructure, and also public amenities. However, despite obligations to sustainably manage infrastructure, the competing demands that are made on limited municipal operational budgets (and staff and other resources) severely constrain sustainable management. The paper describes the finding of extensive research over the last three years into the state of South Africa's municipal infrastructure, and into concepts of sustainable management of that infrastructure. Inter alia, it points out the extent to which the viability and habitability of our housing is at risk because of the threats to the infrastructure. It also outlines what is needed in order that the infrastructure be sustainably managed.	en
dc.format.extent	Presentation consists of 8 pages.	en
dc.format.medium	This paper was transformed from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat technology.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Wall, K 2005, 'Viable housing is more than houses: a report on South Africa's enabling infrastructure', paper presented at XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing 2005 - Transforming Housing Environments through Design (HUE), University of Pretoria.	en
dc.identifier.isbn	1-86854-627-6
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/10432
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	IAHS	en
dc.rights	Copyright shared by: International Association for Housing Science, Coral Gables/Miami, Florida 33134, USA University of Pretoria (UP), Hillcrest, Pretoria 0002, South Africa	en
dc.subject	Infrastructure asset management	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Housing -- Congresses	en
dc.subject.lcsh	House construction -- Congresses	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Architecture, Domestic -- Congresses	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Urban economics	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Cities and towns -- South Africa	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Infrastructure (Economics) -- South Africa	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Housing management -- South Africa	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Municipal government -- South Africa	en
dc.title	Viable housing is more than houses: a report on South Africa's enabling infrastructure	en
dc.type	Event	en
dc.type	Presentation	en