Open House International: Volume 30 Issue 2

Editorial

Robert Brown, Michael Theis

The reader might be forgiven for not being familiar with the term Community Asset Management. Indeed, doing a web search for ‘community asset management’ yields a disparate range…

Resource Maps and the Community Asset Management (CAM) Approach

Ripin Kalra

Currently held views and policies commonly suggest that community participation in the development of physical infrastructure is primarily exercised to encourage local ownership…

Community Asset Management A Good Practice in Participatory Local Governance

Wendy Taylor

This article places the concept of community asset management (CAM), the focus of a DFID Knowledge and Research (KAR) project which has been described elsewhere, in the context of…

Best Practices and Community Asset Management Projects as Vehicles for Communicating Development

Catalina Gandelsonas

Drawing on recent research on communication for urban development and on new research on ’Localising the Habitat Agenda’, this article focuses on the communication aspects of…

Community Asset Management: Realizing the Role of Professionals

Geci Karuri, Mwansa Saidi

There has been a range of initiatives in South Africa aimed at determining how community-based approaches such as Community Asset Management (CAM) can be enabled and supported…

Seven Reasons why Cam won't Work

Jo Noero

The author's experience of low-income self-help housing in South Africa provides some cautionary lessons on the difficulties likely to be encountered in attempting to implement…

Regeneration of Public Residential Buildings for Rent in Japan

Kozo Kadowaki, Seiichi Fukao, Tsuyoshi Arahira

In Japan, various government authorities and public housing corporations built a huge number of dwellings for rent to reconstruct war-damaged cities and to accommodate the high…

Flexible Architecture: The Cultural Impact of Responsive Building

Robert Kronenburg

This paper explores the genre of flexible architecture - buildings that are intended to respond to changing situations in their use, operation, or location. This is architecture…

Book Review

George R. Smith

POSSIBLE WAY OUT: FORMALIZING HOUSING INFORMALITY IN EGYPTIAN CITIES