This work looks at the links between housing, personal sector wealth and the family in contemporary society.
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Home in the Islands addresses changes in housing in the Pacific, considers how these changes came about, and explores their consequences. Architecture intersects with critical anthropology and geography as contributors examine how social, political, religious, economic, demograp…
Home in the Islands addresses changes in housing in the Pacific, considers how these changes came about, and explores their consequences. Architecture intersects with critical anthropology and geography as contributors examine how social, political, religious, economic, demograp…
Abstract: An historical text on housing concepts and needs discusses current concepts and practical information for homeowners, architects, home and city planners and builders, activists, and public officials for revitalizing the importance of home ownership. The material is arr…
" ... Papers presented at a National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on the Economics of Aging, in Carefree, Arizona, in May 1988" -- p. 1.
Critical perspectives on housing
by Hartman, Chester W., Bratt, Rachel G., Meyerson, Ann
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"The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelin…
"Mary C. Comerio provides detailed case studies of housing losses and rebuilding efforts in six recent urban disasters: Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina, Hurricane Andrew in Florida, the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes in California, and the recent major earthquakes in Me…
Chronicles the development of American suburbs, compares American residential patterns with those of Europe and Japan, and discusses how society's views of the metropolis have changed throughout history. This first full scale history of the development of the American suburb ex…
"This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how 'the good life' in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and arc…
Chronicles the development of American suburbs, compares American residential patterns with those of Europe and Japan, and discusses how society's views of the metropolis have changed throughout history.
"This book, which fills a gap in the materiality of lived relations, examines households within the context of their immediate physical surroundings of home and shows how human interactions are reflected in built forms. Houses are dynamic participants in family life in many ways…
The manner in which we talk about our housing is discussed in this volume, which uses a series of speculations, using philosophical analysis & critique, personal anecdote, film criticism, social & cultural theory, & policy analysis to consider housing as a reflection of our anxi…