Part of:

• Fonds: Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds, 1947, 1970-2012
•    Series: Theses, research papers and other publications, 1947-1999
•      Sub-series: Reference and research for publications, late 1940s-1999

People:

• McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)

Title:

Reference and research for publications

Date:

late 1940s-1999

Level of archival description:
Sub-series

Extent and medium:

• 8.91 l.m. of textual records
  
  approx. 2075 photographic material
  
  145 drawings (all reprographic copies)
  
  11 audiocassettes
  
  8 photographs
  
  1 sketchbook

Scope and content:
File related to various documents used as documentation and reference material for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publications and research projects. The material in this file was produced between the late 1940s and 1999. The file contains an important collection of photocopies of book chapters, periodical, published reports, commercial leaflets, photographs and slides on various subjects related to the research field of the Minimum Cost Housing Group, and also a collection of maps of cities planning in India.


The published reports in this series include the following:
- Assessment of construction materials for use in emergency housing carried out on behalf of OXFAM (An) / A.K. Green

- Brazil : sites and services project: staff appraisal report / World Bank

- Cocoon / Hollingshead

- Evaluation report on the village sanitation scheme of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Maharashtra / Programme Evaluation Organisation, Planning Commission Govt. of India

- International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade : end of decade review (as at December 1990) (The) (World Health Organization)

- Lucknow urban development project : an approach document / Lucknow Development Authority

- Preliminary investigations into the use of atomised sprays for handwashing and showering / T.C. Porter and M.E. Rump (Building Research Establishment Note)

- Project completion report: India: Madhya Pradesh Urban Development Project (loan 2329-IN) (World Bank)

- Racing alone: a visionary architect's quest for houses made with earth and fire / Nader Khalili (advertisement brochure for a book, including text of introduction; actual book in CCA collection)

- Reflexiones sobre el tema de la vivienda (CENAC)

- Report on toilet units / J.W. Grainge and J.W. Slupsky

- Technology development for a zero-gravity whole body shower / A.A. Rosener [and 5 others]

- Urban sector survey: Republic of Zambia (World Bank), v. 1-2

- Workshop on implications of the recommendations of National commission on urbanisation on planning practice and education / Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

Reference number:

AP149.S2.SS3

Arrangement:
Materiel in this project series was kept in its original order during processing.

Language of material:

• English.
• Spanish
• French
• Mandarin
• Punjabi

Contains:

• AP149.S2.SS3.001, Documentation on biogas, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.002, Documentation on Bauhaus, 1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.003, Documentation on Sites and Services, ca. 1985
• AP149.S2.SS3.004, Documentation on Sites and Services, ca. 1985
• AP149.S2.SS3.005, Documentation on slums in Indore, India, 1990-1991
• AP149.S2.SS3.006, Documentation on slums in Indore, India, 1990-1991
• AP149.S2.SS3.007, Documentation on sites and services in India, 1984
• AP149.S2.SS3.008, Sketches for sites and services in Vabhipur, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.009, Documentation on Pali, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.010, Documentation on Madras, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.011, Documentation on Madras, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.012, Documentation on Lucknow, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.013, Documenation on Kanpur, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.014, Documentation on Jodhpur, India, ca. 1983
• AP149.S2.SS3.015, Documentation on Jaipur, India, ca. 1971
• AP149.S2.SS3.016, Documentation on Delhi, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.017, Documentation on Delhi, India, 1982-1983
• AP149.S2.SS3.018, Documentation on Delhi, India, 1982-1983
• AP149.S2.SS3.019, Documentation on Chandigarh, India, 1984
• AP149.S2.SS3.020, Documentation on Calcutta, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.021, Documenation on Bombay, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.022, Documenation on Agra, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.023, Documentation on Bhilai, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.024, Documentation on Ahmedabad, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.025, Documentation on Bhopal, India, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.026, Documentation on housing in China, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.027, Documentation on housing in Beijing, China, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.028, Photographs of Indian Architecture, 1980
• AP149.S2.SS3.029, Reference material on energies sources and energy conservation, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.030, Reference material on energies sources and sanitation and water access, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.031, Reference material on sanitation and water access, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.032, Reference material on sanitation and water access and on housing in China, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.033, Reference material on housing in China and in India, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.034, Reference material on housing in India, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.035, Reference material on sanitation and water access, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.036, Reference material on sanitation and water access and construction material, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.037, Reference material on construction material, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.038, Reference material on construction material
• AP149.S2.SS3.039, Reference material on construction material, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.040, Reference material on construction material, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.041, Reference material on housing in India, Africa and Central and South America, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.042, Reference material on housing in Central and South America, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.043, Reference material on housing in Central and South America, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.044, Reference material on post-disaster, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.045, Reference material on post-disaster and self-help, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.046, Reference material on self-help and urban agriculture, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.047, Reference material on urban agriculture, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.048, Reference material on sanitation and water access, 1970s-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.049, Photographs of a greenhouse with solar panels installation, 1970s
• AP149.S2.SS3.050, Photographs of sanitation installation, 1970s
• AP149.S2.SS3.051, Reference slides on energy, 1970s-1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.052, Training packages on sanitation and water access, 1986
• AP149.S2.SS3.053, Reference slides on self-built projects, 1970s-1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.054, Reference material on multi-dwellings building in Montréal, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.055, Reference slides on African Urban Housing, 1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.056, Training packages on sanitation and water access, 1986
• AP149.S2.SS3.057, Reference slides on "Poor Man's Housing in Delhi", 1970s
• AP149.S2.SS3.058, Leaflets and brochures on Rosario, Argentina, 2004-2006
• AP149.S2.SS3.059, Leaflets and brochures on Brasilia, Bresil, 2000s
• AP149.S2.SS3.060, Postcards and brochures on Egypt and Jordan, 1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.061, Leaflets, brochures and maps of countries in Asia, 1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.062, Documentation on Latin American university schools of architecture, 1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.063, Documentation on building material, 1974-1980s
• AP149.S2.SS3.064, Documentation on urban agriculture, 1956-2011
• AP149.S2.SS3.065, Documentation on post-disaster and disaster prevention, 1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.066, Documentation on recuperation and reuse, 1980-1990s
• AP149.S2.SS3.067, Documentation on self-help and sites and services, 1964-1987
• AP149.S2.SS3.068, Documentation on self-help and sites and services, 1977-1989
• AP149.S2.SS3.069, Documentation on urbanisation, 1970-1989
• AP149.S2.SS3.070, Documentation on urbanisation, 1981-2006
• AP149.S2.SS3.071, Documentation on sanitation and water access, 1977-1985
• AP149.S2.SS3.072, Documentation on urbanism, education and socio-economic development, 1961-2008
• AP149.S2.SS3.073, Documentation on low-cost housing and housing needs, 1976-2006
• AP149.S2.SS3.074, Documentation on urban agriculture and food access, 1975-2008
• AP149.S2.SS3.075, Documentation on health, sanitation and water access, 1968-2005
• AP149.S2.SS3.076, Documentation on science and technological development, 1980-2008
• AP149.S2.SS3.077, Documentation on energy, 1974-2004
• AP149.S2.SS3.078, Documentation on construction material, 1955-1976
• AP149.S2.SS3.079, Documentation on canadian First Nations, 1970s
• AP149.S2.SS3.080, Documentation on green housing and reuse, 1979-2008
• AP149.S2.SS3.081, View of minimal housing in a unidentified city for Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication, 1970s
• AP149.S2.SS3.082, Book of press clippings, 1970s
• ARCH273161, The Activities of the United Nations in Housing, Building, and Planning Between 1945-47, n.d.
• ARCH273418, HOUSE FORM IN NEWFOUNDLAND: VERNACULAR TO NEO-VERNACULAR / ROBERT MELLIN, 1987