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Housing : symbol, structure, site

Title

Housing : symbol, structure, site / Lisa Taylor, editor.

Publication

[New York, N.Y.] : Cooper-Hewitt Museum : [Distributed by] Rizzoli, [1990]
©1990

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Description

176 p. : ill.; 22 x 28 cm.

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-176).

Contents

Abide/abode -- The history of housing -- An enduring theme -- Housing and culture -- Amenities and comforts -- Houses are for living in -- The contradictions of housing -- Domesticity -- Housing styles -- Domestic architecture -- Residential interiors -- The toxic house -- Federal programs -- How Americans live -- The homeless -- Homelessness -- Reform movements -- Segregation and discrimination -- Design for special needs -- Family patterns -- Self-identity and the home -- Dreams and visions -- Territoriality -- Communal amenities -- The neighborhood -- Revolution in urban development -- Cityscapes -- Planned communities -- Retirement havens -- The suburban house -- Country and city -- Odd and unusual -- New towns -- The law -- Shelter magazines -- Architectural elements -- Builders' guides and plan books -- Transportation -- International building expositions -- Modern masterpieces -- Images of American life -- Residential construction -- Framing up -- Economics of housing -- Industrial villages -- Workplace and residence -- Workers' housing -- Homemakers -- Housing the military -- Egalitarian experiments -- Communal living -- Once upon a time -- Paper houses -- Domestic environments -- Stately mansions -- The client-decorator relationship -- Mail-order residences -- Industrial housing -- Mobile homes -- Scaled down -- Underground living -- Tensile structures -- Symbolic houses -- Industrial servants -- Homemakers -- The third world -- Indigenous architecture -- Housing in less complex societies -- Climate-responsive housing -- Second homes -- Houses in literature -- Gentrification -- Homes away from home -- Natural habitats -- housing in the future -- The future -- Colonies in space -- Selected reading.

ISBN

084781016X
9780847810161

LCCN

88071867

OCLC

ocm18589237
18589237
SCSB-9726391

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library