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Housing, Culture, and Design : a Comparative Perspective /
This book originates in two symposia held during 1985 at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Environmental Design Research Association.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One. Culture As a Political and Economic Structure: Community Culture, Neighborhood Politics, and Housing Policy
- Introduction
- 1. Housing and the Material Basis of Social Reproduction: Political Conflict and the Quality of Life in New York City
- 2. Politics, Culture, and the Built Form: User Reaction to the Privatization of State Housing in South Africa
- 3. Housing and Culture for Native Groups in Canada
- 4. Culture, Policy, and Production: Making Low-Cost Housing in Sri Lanka
- 5. Gentrification: The Redefinition of Urban Neighborhood
- Part Two. Culture as a Cognition: Perception, Pattern, and Spatial Structure of Housing
- Introduction
- 6. Translating Anthropological Concepts into Architectural Practice
- 7. "Cultural Space" as a Needed Research Concept in the Study of Housing Change: The White Pueblos of Andalusia
- 8. The Architecture of Nomadism: Gabra Placemaking and Culture
- 9. Behavior in the House: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Using Behavior-Setting Methodology
- 10. Residents' and Outsiders' Perceptions of the Environment
- Part Three. Culture As a Meaning System: Cultural Meanings Of Home, House, and Family
- Introduction
- 11. House, Home, and Identity in Contemporary American Culture
- 12. Getting Respect in the Kandyan Highlands: The House, the Community, and the Self in a Third World Society
- 13. Architecture as a Medium for Culture: Public Institution and Private House
- 14. Domestic Privacy: Gender, Culture, and Development Issues
- Part Four. Culture as Interpretation: Tradition, Housing Development, and Design
- 15. Dual Aspects of Tradition in Saudi Arabian Urban Housing Development
- 16. Contextual Transformations of Traditional Housing in Kabul, Afghanistan
- 17. Vernacular Architecture as an Expression of Its Social Context in Eressos, Greece
- 18. Cultural Implications of Housing Design Policy in India
- 19. Progressive Development and Cultural Factors in Low-Cost Housing in Bogotá, Colombia
- Contributors
- Index