Social responsible design : an examination of some selected approaches with special reference to low income housing in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Housing, one of the basic human needs in an ever-growing problem in both developed and developing countries in the world. Increasing population, urbanization, poor economic growth with changing attitude towards living could be identified as primary causes that created problems in human habitation. There were different approaches to overcome this problem. These approaches very from the participation of community component. While some are fully separate from the community participation, others are purely oriented to community participation. However these approaches are abandoned some time without valid reasoning. The overall need of the contemporary housing is to research on the precedence as stated above, to evolve a more suitable system or a strategy based on the contemporary research and to cater for the housing demand.