1st Edition

The Common Place The Ordinary Experience of Housing

By Peter King Copyright 2005
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Much of what constitutes our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and familiar, in particular, where we live. While policymakers and academics are constantly seeking transformations in housing, what we seek from our own housing is stability and lack of change. We seek secure roots to our lives rather than step-changes and radical reform. This book considers this ordinary... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Roots and ruts; The unseen frame; Seeing the ordinary; Housing in the background; Memory and exile; Accommodating change; Conclusions; Bibliography; Films; Index.

Biography

King, Peter