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Housing Transformations: Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living book cover

1st Edition

Housing Transformations Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living

By Bridget Franklin Copyright 2006
320 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge
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Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining, liberating and illuminating. This groundbreaking book deals with topical issues, which are helpfully divided into two parts.... Read more

List of Figures  Acknowledgements  List of Abbreviations  Introduction  Part 1: Theory, Concept and Practice  1. Towards a Contextual Approach  2. Unsettling Structures: Insecurity and Change in a Globalised Society  3. The Institutional Framework: Powers, Policies and Procedures  4. Agency and Action: Negotiation, Influence and Resistance  5. The Built Form: Design and Discourse  Part 2: Issues, Projects and Processes  6. Revisioning the Village  7. Monuments Made Good  8. Settings of Structured Dependency  9. Constructing City Lifestyles  10. Alternative Modes of Dwelling  Part 3: Conclusion  11. Making Connections  References  Index

Biography

Bridget Franklin is Lecturer in Housing in the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University. She has written and researched extensively on a range of topics in housing studies.

" A serious and important addition to the [housing] literature." - Housing Studies
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