You can love your home. Join Melissa Michaels, creator of the popular blog The Inspired Room, as she shares humor, lessons learned, and encouraging advice so you can: get motivated with the 31-day Love Your Home challenge; declutter, organize, and decorate your rooms with ease; …
Live tiny without sacrificing the comforts of home with Derek ""Deek"" Diedricksen's lively exploration of 40 small dwellings outfitted with features essential to full-time, year-round living -- complete with floor plans, real experiences, and expert tips from tiny house residen…
This thesis looks at the Bedouin community of the Negev region of Israel, a traditional society within a modern nation-state. The Bedouins, originally pastoral nomads, are subjected to a rapid urbanization process that is the result of government intervention policies on one han…
Home has often been understood as a stable point of origin or a location of belonging, where one understands and is understood. However, the existence of multinational and multilingual homes prompts a reimagining of home as a concept. It cannot be considered a stable location th…
The dissertation investigates household organization for the inhabitants of southern Judah during the Iron Age II (late 8th century B.C.E.). It specifically attempts to broaden our understanding of the social unit which occupies the pillared dwellings so prevalent throughout the…
This dissertation examines representations of Englishness in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing (1950), and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969), and argues that ideas of home/land are central to Englis…
How did the apartment, as a built form, as a setting for everyday domestic life, and as a concept, contribute to forming modern consciousness in Turkey? This dissertation examines the social, cultural, political, economic, and architectural aspects of urban apartments between th…
