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A traditional Batak Toba house in North Sumatra. With few exceptions, the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago share a common Austronesian ancestry (originating in Taiwan, c. 6,000 years ago [4]) or Sundaland, a sunken area in Southeast Asia, and the traditional homes of Indonesia share a number of characteristics, such as timber construction and varied and elaborate roof structures. [4]
Rapid population growth, shorter lifetimes for housing stock, and rising construction costs have meant that efforts to limit overcrowding and provide healthy living environments for Indigenous people have been difficult for governments to achieve. Indigenous housing design and research is a specialised field within housing studies.
Taos Pueblo from Taos, New Mexico. Pueblo architecture is a lasting aspect of Indigenous architecture in the American Southwest.The original Pueblo style was based on the Anasazi people, [1] who began building square cliff dwellings around 1150 CE, featuring subterranean chambers and circular ceremonial rooms.
Ethnic neighborhoods tend to have lower average incomes and housing values, as well as more rental housing and more inhabitants that commute without a car. [ 43 ] Most ethnic neighborhoods in the United States disappear within a decade or two, as immigrants gain language abilities, cultural skills, and resources and subsequently move elsewhere.
A traditional house type of the Sakuddei people, [14] on the island of Siberut, part of the Mentawai Islands some 130 kilometres (81 mi) to the west off the coast of Sumatra (Sumatera), Indonesia is also described as a longhouse on stilts. Some five to ten families may live in each, but they are organized differently inside from those on Borneo.
The evolution of the hogan as of the 1930s. A hogan (/ ˈ h oʊ ɡ ɑː n / or / ˈ h oʊ ɡ ən /; from Navajo hooghan) is the primary, traditional dwelling of the Navajo people.Other traditional structures include the summer shelter, the underground home, and the sweat house.
An attap dwelling is traditional housing found in the kampongs of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Named after the attap palm , which provides the wattle for the walls, and the leaves with which their roofs are thatched , [ 1 ] these dwellings can range from huts to substantial houses.
London, a city in the United Kingdom, is a large settlement with a human population of 14 million in its metropolitan area.. In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place.