1st Edition

Thinking on Housing Words, Memories, Use

By Peter King Copyright 2017
74 Pages
by Routledge

74 Pages
by Routledge

74 Pages
by Routledge

If we do stop to think on housing, what do we see? What is housing and what does it do? These seem deceptively simple questions, but they are often left unanswered. The reason for this is that a lot of discourse on housing is really a concern for policy-making and the critical evaluation of existing policies. Discourse, is not, properly speaking, on housing at all. It is concerned with provision,... Read more

Preface



1. Thinking on housing



2. Housing is



3. Care-full use



4. Misuse



5. The consequences of use



6. What housing does



A note on sources

Biography

Peter King is a writer and thinker on housing issues. He has consistently used philosophical concepts to draw out the meaning of housing. He is the author of 20 books including A Social Philosophy of Housing (2003), Private Dwelling (2004) and The Principles of Housing (2016). Peter is currently Reader in Social Thought at De Montfort University.