The meaning and use of housing : international perspectives, approaches and their applications
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The meaning and use of housing : international perspectives, approaches and their applications
（Ethnoscapes : current challenges in the environmental social sciences, v. 7）
Avebury, c1993
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This study presents a re-evaluation of the use and meaning of residential environments. It integrates methodological and philosophical approaches to assist in the making of comparisons across issues, concerns, disciplines and countries, and links theory, research and practice.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Meaning and use - a basis of understanding, R.G. Studer: meaning and use - a conceptual basis, Guido Francescato
- methodological issues and approaches - a critical analysis, Jon T. Lang. Part 2 The meaning and use of home - its interior, R. Lawrence: the interior use of home - behaviour principles across and within European cultures, Yvonne Bernard, et al
- spatial archetypes and the experience of time - identifying the dimensions of home, Giles Barbey
- the spatial organization of the domestic interior - the Italian home, M. Vittoria Giuliani, et al. Part 3 The meaning and use of home - its design, Ernesto G. Arias: connotative meanings of house styles, Jack L. Nasar
- user group preferences and their intensity - the impacts of residential design, Ernesto G. Arias
- the meaning of the "corredor" in Costa Rica - an integrated methodology for design, Donna Luckey. Part 4 The meaning and use of neighbourhood - spatial attributes and social dynamics, Maria M. Yen: the meaning and use of public space, P. Wim Blauw
- neighbourhood gentrification - dynamics of meaning and use in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Lucia Maria M. Bogus
- the space of citizenship - visually perceived non-spatial dimensions of housing, Thereza Carvalho. Part 5 The meaning and use of housing - the traditional family, B.A. Chokor: the behavioural dynamics of social engineering - lessons for family housing, William Michelson
- housing characteristics, family relations and lifestyle - an empirical study of estonian families, Toomas Niit
- inheritability and attachment - the detached house in Japan, Kunihiro Narumi. Part 6 The meaning and use of housing - unconventional arrangements, Kathryn H. Anthony: a hybrid strategy in a study of shared housing, Carole Despres
- the study of collective housing - a Swedish perspective, Dick Urban Vestbro
- assimilation and accommodation of a housing innovation - a case study approach of the house trailer, Allan Wallis. Part 7 The meaning and use of housing - overlooked populations, K. Franck: the homeless and "doubled-up" households, Elizabeth Huttman
- home is where you start from - childhood memory in adult interpretations of home, Louise Chawla
- the elderly and housing relocation in Sweden - a comparative methodology, Berth Danermark and Mats Ekstrom
- Egyptian norms, women's lives - a new form and content for housing, Moshira El-Rafey and Sharon E. Sutton. Part 8 Conclusion - directions and implications for future developments: getting from what is to what should be - procedural issues, Raymond G. Studer
- a house is not an elephant - centering the marginal, Willen van Vliet.
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