Housing, Culture, and Design
A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
488 pages
978-1-5128-0428-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Reprint 2016
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English
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Pennsylvania
United States
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College/higher education
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978-1-5128-0428-7 (9781512804287)
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LowSetha M.:
Setha M. Low is Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.ChambersErve:
Erve Chambers is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Setha M. Low is Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.ChambersErve:
Erve Chambers is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Content
- Intro
- 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
