Since the Garden of Eden, humanity has been concerned with shelter.
Yet housing means different things to different people. This work
is a comprehensive, historical reference guide that reviews housing
concepts and issues. It introduces the reader to the current body
of literature and seminal work in housing from a multidisciplinary
perspective. The nature of the topic is multifaceted, fragmented,
and demanding of serious study from diverse disciplines-this study
spans the broad domains of housing knowledge in architectural
history and theory; environment and behavior; design process and
methods; and building and environmental technology. The book begins
with a discussion of vernacular housing and American culture and
makes the case that dwellings reflect the people of different
regions, materials, techniques, and design traditions of an earlier
time. The history of American housing is reviewed with biographies
and bibliographies, setting the stage for the environmental and
social science perspective of housing. Residential environments are
then considered in the broad sense of home and housing.
Neighborhood and community are examined with a special focus on
people, behavior, and the physical setting. The arts and popular
media chapter presents American popular housing as image and icon,
focusing on the arts and popular media as channels of visual and
symbolic information or communication. These channels include
painting, prints, pattern books, photography, music, film,
television and video, literature, how-to manuals, and newspapers
and magazines. Taking a macro-level perspective, direct and
indirect programs of public administration and policy for housing
are discussed. Then, the complex systems of financing, and the
prevalance and mechanisms for matching buyers with sellers is
considered in the chapter that considers housing finance,
marketing, economics and management. The chapter on environmental
design, construction process, and technology reviews the
professional disciplines and their perspectives on housing, special
populations and accessibility needs, descriptions of building
trades, terms, materials, construction processes and past
industrial housing experiments, as well as issues of energy
management, computer technology, futuristic housing, air quality
and household hazards. Using current technology to conduct
research, the final chapter breaks from the conventional ways of
locating hard-copy, copyrighted references to a seemingly endless
potential of electronic communication systems such as data tapes;
on-line databases; other electronic databases; electronic mail;
listserves, chat, and on-line communities; libraries; on-line
electronic texts; software; and news and journals including
electronic journals.
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