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Living Over the Store : Architecture and Local Urban Life.
The shop/house -- the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings -- appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehens...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- LIVING OVER THE STORE Architecture and Local Urban Life; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction A quintessential urban building; Part I: THE SHOP/HOUSE AS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON; 1 Shophouses of Asia; 2 The shop in the palazzo; 3 Merchants' houses of northern and western Europe; 4 From London to Main Street; Part II: THE FABRIC OF EVERYDAY LIFE; 5 Living and working in the city; 6 The geography of mixed uses; 7 Adaptable buildings and flexible economics; 8 The architecture of hybrid types; Part III: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE MODEST SHOP/HOUSE; 9 The gradual separation of family and business.
- 10 The building culture of the divided city11 Toward a resilient urbanism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.