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Thinking on Housing - Words, Memories, Use (Hardcover)
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Thinking on Housing - Words, Memories, Use (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy
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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, distribution and access, but this thinking on housing
stops at the front door. It is only concerned with what is actually
external to housing. But for most people, housing already exists
and they have access to it. Housing is not then about policy, but
about how we can use what is a complex object in a manner that
allows us to live well. Housing, for most of us, is about what we
do when the front door is firmly shut and we are free from the
external world. These essays explore this idea of housing as an
object that exists for use. Housing is pictured as an object that
contains activity. These pieces look at what we do with housing
once we have it and so provides a necessary underpinning for any
understanding of why housing is important. A further purpose of
these pieces is to present different ways of thinking and writing
on housing. It is an attempt to show that housing is a suitable
topic for philosophical discourse. It is suggested that we can and
should seek to establish a philosophy of housing, rather than just
relying on the traditional social sciences.
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