Designing a Place Called Home : Reordering the Suburbs

Language: English

Published by Springer, 2012

1468414208 / 9781468414202

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - are often lined with garages in front of houses that are clearly more internalized in design, some even taking on a fortress-like appearance. Today's new homes are technically superior in construction; i.e., they are more energy efficient, weather resistant and maintenance free. However, they also seem to lack the warmth and charm of prewar homes, for which more construction dollars were spent on quality veneers, buUt-in features and other human-scale details. The postwar need for massive amounts of 'affordable' housing for returning GIs helped to encourage buUding practices that could reduce on-site labor and material costs in houses. The accommodation of the automobile, cost-cutting movements and a variety of other trends caused a gradual decline in the human, social and emotional qualities of postwar residential architecture. This book will attempt to look at the issues and choices facing today's residential designers and home buUders and ask: How can we make our new houses and neighborhoods more responsive to humanistic needs, partlcularly in light of constant pressures to keep housing costs down This question will generally be addressed by comparing historical designs to those of today, to see if we might be able to reconsider some 'old-fashioned' ideas in new housing designs.

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Title
Designing a Place Called Home : Reordering the Suburbs
Author
James Wentling
Publisher
Springer
Publication year
2012
Condition
Neu
Binding
Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
1468414208
ISBN 13
9781468414202
Item weight
590 grams
Dimensions
254x178x17 mm

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