Housing, Culture, and Design : : A Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Setha M. Low, Erve Chambers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bechhoefer, William B.,; Bechtel, Robert B.,; Brower, Sidney,; Chambers, Erve,; Dent, Richard J.,; Doxtater, Dennis,; Duncan, James S.,; Hardie, Graeme J.,; Hart, Timothy,; Hesser, Jana E.,; Howell, Sandra C.,; Hummon, David M.,; Jones, Delmos J.,; Lang, Jon,; Lawrence, Roderick J.,; Low, Setha M.,; McDowell, Kenneth,; Noriega, Mario,; Pavlides, Eleftherios,; Prussin, Labelle,; Restrepo, Ignacio,; Robbins, Edward,; Robinson, Julia W.,; Rogers, Wren,; Rowe, Peter G.,; Tentokali, Vana,; Turner, Joan T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Chambers, Erve,; Low, Setha M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rapoport, Amos.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Part One. Culture As a Political and Economic Structure: Community Culture, Neighborhood Politics, and Housing Policy --; 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 --; 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 --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512804287; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512804287
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Setha M. Low, Erve Chambers.

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.