It is not a direct answer, however I tried to describe the sustainable management in home for elderly in Ljubljana tied with community culture.

Best, Domen.

Conference Paper ELDERLY HOUSING DESIGN FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: CASE LJUBLJANA

You should consult the two attached files that can help you.

thank you all for your contributions but the study focus centre on how can community culture (belief and norms) practices  affects successful and sustainable residential properties development.

The beliefs and norms of a people can influence the choices they make about the type of residential properties they provide or are willing and/or able to rent. However,  cultural patterns are constantly changing. Lifestyle preferences are constantly being modified with advancement in technology and westernization of culture using Africa as a case study. Sustainable residential properties development should therefore seek to respond to the cultural preferences which will be expressed through market demand and supply forces while keeping an eye on the cultural changes that are taking place to ensure that future changing demands are satisfied. 

i would look at this from the ownership perspective. In a homogenous community in terms of culture and norms, it is likely that this community might be tight allowing little external market forces influence. this means that property values will be protected, maintenance of public spaces and communal utilities is more likely. This is also possible in a heterogenous society if they share the same norms such as religion. Sustainable residential property development must protect the existing culture but at the same time, it should be careful not to exclude other groups of people.

Historically, human looked for a safe spot or a station to position itself secure from harms of animals and natural disasters. Comming back to current era, interacted trust to others, climate change- issues, and accesebilitiy for daily- life activities are some of the variables that creat balance issues. Of course, "trust" itself is an umbrella for similarities and differences in cultures and belief systems, in which develops safety and communication matters in any assigned spot.

Study done on vernacular architecture are the best examples showing integration of Residential buildings and culture and socio-economic status. My study on vernacular architecture of north-east India presents this integration. For more info, please visit my publication list. I will advise you to read my article "Bioclimatism and vernacular architecture of north-east India". It present some very interesting findings.

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Manoj

A good question. Social sciences certainly offer an array of techniques to study, and hence to understand, the consequences (what you call 'effects') of local culture on residential development.

I am not sure whether I got your question but, if you do not refer merely to aesthetical influences, I may say that to understand these consequences primarily you have to consider, among many other things, the distribution of social and political power in the local community looking at land distribution and ownership. It is basic to analyze also how much interested are the stakeholders that promote those 'residential properties development' in that specific location, which type of interest do they have in mind, or whether they could take it elsewhere without disturbing their planning. For instance, is it a residential development for investors or for permanent dwellers? Are these investors/dwellers nationals or foreigners? Is it a tourist-oriented development? Which are the expectations of the local community regarding a development based upon real-states? These are just a couple of examples of the questions you may want to answer in the first place to understand the consequences you are focusing on.

Once you got some clue of the answers to those questions, then you may move to the next stage and do some fieldwork on both groups. But then you will face one of a long queue of theoretical obstacles: are you approaching the process from a dialectical or a dialogical perspective? Do you consider the community (or the newcomers) to be a homogenous group?

My research study looks at a similar issue. Coming from an environmental criminology perspective, specialising in the examination of the socio-spatial worlds of rural areas and criminological issues of discrimination. My study concludes that community action towards sustainable development derived from active informal controls processes, or the need to protect local identity.

Take, for example, a rural community. Rural areas are renown fir vie secular architecture . The sameness of buildings promote homogenous norms and values amongst the lifelong residents of the community. However, when external threat is high from wider forces of social change such as creeping urbanisation; the development of more 'polite' architecture (professional planner designed buildings) then the local community are more inclined to take local action.

In the context of my study this fear of the erosion of local character made the lifelong residents, in accordance with The Localism Act (2010), designed a 'Neighbourhood Plan' which clearly set out an agenda regarding preserving the local character - developing housing estates so that they use the local 'red brick' of the area, fir instance. I theorised that these processes of preserving local character can have racist outcomes. For instance, the wanting to per serve traditionalist vernacular architecture promotes ideological controls of 'Englishness' (buildings made from the same local materials = homogenous attitudes of the local environment which have tended to theorised as being 'English' - see Chakraborti and Garland 2004), Because of this, ethnic residents articulated emotional feelings of exclusion by, for example, not connecting with the local landscape.