Self-build homes : social discourse, experiences and directions /

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"Self-Build Homes sets out to consider how understanding the social dimensions of self-build might advance theory, practice and research."--Preface, page v

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Benson, Michaela (Editor), Hamiduddin, Iqbal (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : UCL Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Owner-built houses.
Owner-built houses > Great Britain.
House construction > Social aspects.
Habitations construites par le propriétaire.
Habitations construites par le propriétaire > Grande-Bretagne.
Habitations > Construction > Aspect social.
owner-built houses.
Owner-built houses
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Self-build homes: social values and the lived experience of housing in practice/ Michaela Benson and Iqbal Hamiduddin
  • Part 1: Discourse, rationale, meaning / Community building: self-build and the neighbourhood commons / Iqbal Hamiduddin
  • Models of self-build and collaborative housing in the United Kingdom / Martin Field
  • Eco-homes for all: why the socio-cultural matters in encouraging eco-building / Jenny Pickerill
  • Part 2: Values, lifestyles, imaginaries
  • From cultures of resistance to the new social movements: DIY self-build in West Wales / Elaine Forde
  • Protohome: rethinking home through co-production / Julia Heslop
  • Of flux or finality? On the process and dynamics of a co-housing group in formation / Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and Kathleen Scanlon
  • Part 3: Community and identity
  • Self-building as a practice of homemaking: the affective spaces of unfinished home / Michaela Benson
  • Senior co-housing: restoring sociable community in later life / Jim Hudson
  • Something wonderful in my back yard: the social impetus for group self-building / Emma Heffernan and Pieter de Wilde
  • Building a self: community self-build and the reconstruction of identity / Katherine Collins
  • Part 4: Perspectives from practice
  • Self-build neighbourhoods for living and working: a view from Tübingen, Germany / Andreas Feldtkeller
  • Turning the theory into reality / Ted Stevens
  • Taking self-build out of its 'small and special box': citizens as agents for the political and the social of self-build
  • Stephen Hill.

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