Medium-Density Mixed Housing: sustainable design and construction of South African social housing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Medium-density mixed housing (MDMH), social housing (SH) being one component of that, is perceived to have the capacity to contribute to the transformation of fragmented South African cities more than the massive roll-out of government-subsidised "one-house-per-plot typology". It is also perceived that higher densities are more economically and environmentally sustainable. If these perceptions lead to large numbers of MDMH projects being built ...