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Title

Victoria Plaza revisited : lessons for the evaluation of housing for the elderly / Frances M. Carp ; editor, Arza Churchman ; contributors, Min Kantrowitz, Gerald D. Weisman, Habib Chaudhury.

Author

Carp, Frances M. (Frances Merchant), 1918-2007.

Publication

Milwaukee, Wis. : Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Ts'erts'man, Arzah.
• Kantrowitz, Min.
• Weisman, Gerald D.
• Chaudhury, Habib.
• University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research.
• University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Institute on Aging and Environment.

Description

v, 71 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.

Summary

• This monograph is based upon a workshop sponsored by the Institute on Aging and Environment at the 1994 EDRA Conference. San Antonio is the home of Victoria Plaza, the first public housing facility specifically designed for and limited to older persons, where Frances Carp conducted a nine year longitudinal study of the effects of the housing on its residents.
• The convening of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Design Research Association in San Antonio in March of 1994, offered the opportunity to use the occasion to mark the significance of the Victoria Plaza study and to reflect on the substantive and methodological lessons that can be learned from it. The monograph includes Frances Carp's reflections on her pioneering experiences with Post Occupancy Evaluations and the lessons applicable today.
• Min Kantrowitz and Gerald Weisman present their comments and conclusions.

Series Statement

• Publications in architecture and urban planning ; rept. R94-7
• Monograph series : Institute on Aging and Environment

Uniform Title

• Institute on Aging and Environment (Series)
• Publications in architecture and urban planning ; rept. R94-7.

Subjects

• Housing > Resident satisfaction
• Older people > Housing > Texas > San Antonio
• Older people > Texas > San Antonio
• Older people > Dwellings

Note

• "Institute on Aging and Environment, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Introduction / Arza Churchman -- 2. Housing Older Persons: The Victoria Plaza Experience / Frances M. Carp -- 3. Time, Age, Research: Comments on Frances M. Carp's "The Victoria Plaza Experience" / Min Kantrowitz -- 4. Learning from Victoria Plaza / Gerald D. Weisman -- 5. Victoria Plaza: Description of the Facility / Habib Chaudhury -- Appendix: Victoria Plaza Apartments, brochure of San Antonio Housing Authority, 1961.

ISBN

0938744887

OCLC

ocm31919676

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Columbia University Libraries