Democratic architecture : practical solutions to today's housing crisis
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Democratic architecture : practical solutions to today's housing crisis
Whitney Library of Design, 1996
Available at 7 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
With the lack of affordable housing and burgeoning homeless population reaching critical heights, this volume takes a look at the situation and offers practical solutions to the problem. MacDonald's proposals for democratic architecture are based on four points: that every human being has a right to an affordable home; that people should be able to manipulate their residential environments, from expanding and dividing spaces to changing facades easily and inexpensively; that in deciding where and how to construct a building every effort should be made to prevent damage to the environment; and lastly, that the design expresses the multiplicity of society, not some ideal of perfection or political ideology. Written in a straightforward style, this work is intended for urban planners, housing officials, students of sociology and American studies - as well as architecture and design professionals.
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