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    Influences on the life-span of urban buildings: an examination of some locational, economic and social factors affecting the existing stock

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    1976
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    Wagner, Richard Donald
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    This thesis undertakes an examination of the factors which influence the life-span of the existing stock of urban buildings. It is divided into three major parts: a theoretical examination of the principal factors, a further investigation of some of the most critical principal factors, and an empirical survey of the relationship between the critical factors and some of the existing stock in Edinburgh.
     
    In Part One, a brief introduction to existing research in this field is first described and a distinction drawn between prolonging the usefulness of the existing stock and intensifying its utilisation is made. The principal factors are then described and categorised and the effects of change of the factors is examined.
     
    Part Two examines more closely the social and economic factors which influence the life-span of the existing stock, as well as examining the fole of the building industry in adapting the stock to meet Chungking demands.
     
    The Third Part of the thesis consists of two related empirical investigations into the changing relationship between the critical factors and some of the existing stock in Edinburgh, as well as examining the validity of a number of theories about urban growth and change in the light of empirical data.
     
    Finally, the thesis develops a few major lines for further investiga¬ tion, not only of interest to this particular undertaking, but also to peripheral ventures as well.
     
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