World population is projected to increase from approximately 5 billion in the year 2000 to 8 billion inhabitants by 2050; primarily in developing countries that are shifting from a rural agrarian to urban information society. Literally, millions of persons are homeless, live in inadequate shelter, or as in the US Manufactured Housing market, live in deficient "manufactured" houses that are detrimental to health and life-safety. In this book, we review the evolution of the Manufactured Housing industry in the 20th century; further, we review architect's mass housing concepts and their...
World population is projected to increase from approximately 5 billion in the year 2000 to 8 billion inhabitants by 2050; primarily in developing coun...