{"id":123073,"key":"Domicology","title":"Domicology","latest":{"id":1181363,"timestamp":"2025-08-25T23:38:38Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Abandoned mobile home in field off Wilderness Lane, Hadlow Down - geograph.org.uk - 5627860.jpg|thumb|Abandoned mobile home in field off Wilderness Lane, Hadlow Down]]\n\n[https://domicology.msu.edu/ '''''Domicology'''''] is the study of the economic, social, and environmental characteristics relating to the life cycle of the built environment.\n\nDomicologists:\n\n# Recognize that manmade structures have a life cycle;\n# Examine the life cycle continuum of the built environment and plan, design, construct, and deconstruct in order to maximize the reuse of materials and minimize the negative impacts of a structure's end of useful life;\n# Identify innovative tools, models, policies, practices, and programs that can sustainably address a structural life cycle; and,\n# Conduct research on the technical, economic, and policy challenges present in a structure's life cycle and seek to reduce the negative social, economic, and environmental impacts associated with structural abandonment.\n\nThe term was coined in 2015 by [https://ced.msu.edu/about-cced/staff/rex-lamore '''''Dr. Rex LaMore'''''], Director of the [https://ced.msu.edu/ '''''Michigan State University, Center for Community and Economic Development'''''].\n\n{{Page data\n| sdg = SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities\n}}"}