Subjects Include: Action Planning, Affordable Homes, Architecture, Bio-Climatic Design, Building and Urban Design, Building Design & Planning for Sustainable Development, Building Technology, City & Neighbourhood Management, Culture & Built Form, Ecology, Environmental Issues, Gender Issues, Habitat Agenda, Housing Policy, Information Communication Technology, Finance & Management, Open Building, Prefabrication & Industrialisation, Slum Improvement & Redevelopment, User Participation, Vernacular & Self-Build, Book Reviews. Founded in 1976, Open House International focuses on decision making processes which enable the various disciplines dealing with the built environment to understand the dynamics of development and so contribute more effectively to it. Its general aim is to improve the qualiy of the built environment through encouraging greater sharing of decision making and to develop the necessary institutional frameworks which will support the local initiatives of users in the design and building processes.