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Author: Nikhil Rao Publisher: ISBN: 9780816678129 Category : ARCHITECTURE Languages : en Pages : 0
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Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city's fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. In House, but No Garden Nikhil Rao considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It is the first book to explore an organization of the middle-class neighborhood that became ubiquitous in the mid-twentieth-century city and that has spread throughout the subcontinent. Rao examines how the challenge of converting lands from agrarian to urban use created new relations between the state, landholders, and other residents of the city. At the level of dwellings, apartment living in self-contained flats represented a novel form of urban life, one that expressed a compromise between the caste and class identities of suburban residents who are upper caste but belong to the lower-middle or middle class. Living in such a built environment, under the often conflicting imperatives of maintaining the exclusivity of caste and subcaste while assembling residential groupings large enough to be economically viable, led suburban residents to combine caste with class, type of work, and residence to forge new metacaste practices of community identity. As it links the colonial and postcolonial city--both visually and analytically--Rao's work traces the appearance of new spatial and cultural configurations in the middle decades of the twentieth century in Bombay. In doing so, it expands our understanding of how built environments and urban identities are constitutive of one another.
Author: Nikhil Rao Publisher: ISBN: 9780816678129 Category : ARCHITECTURE Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city's fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. In House, but No Garden Nikhil Rao considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It is the first book to explore an organization of the middle-class neighborhood that became ubiquitous in the mid-twentieth-century city and that has spread throughout the subcontinent. Rao examines how the challenge of converting lands from agrarian to urban use created new relations between the state, landholders, and other residents of the city. At the level of dwellings, apartment living in self-contained flats represented a novel form of urban life, one that expressed a compromise between the caste and class identities of suburban residents who are upper caste but belong to the lower-middle or middle class. Living in such a built environment, under the often conflicting imperatives of maintaining the exclusivity of caste and subcaste while assembling residential groupings large enough to be economically viable, led suburban residents to combine caste with class, type of work, and residence to forge new metacaste practices of community identity. As it links the colonial and postcolonial city--both visually and analytically--Rao's work traces the appearance of new spatial and cultural configurations in the middle decades of the twentieth century in Bombay. In doing so, it expands our understanding of how built environments and urban identities are constitutive of one another.
Author: Hazel Easthope Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1786438089 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 157
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The majority of people now live in cities and for many that means apartment living. Apartments are where we spend our time, make our homes, raise our families and invest our money. Apartment living requires that we try to get along with our neighbours and make decisions collectively about the management of our buildings. This book examines how different housing markets, development practices, planning regimes, legal structures and social and cultural norms affect people’s everyday experiences of apartment living.
Author: Veda Taylor Strong Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1452042624 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 126
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I have been an apartment manager for several years. Well, more than eight years anyway. I think this life has been one big wonderful experience. I have learned so much and have met so many wonderful people with their very own personalities that I had to write about them. I believe Will Rogers said it best when he remarked that he had never met a person that he did not like. I do not believe that I have either and this is the truth of the matter. We hear and read about the bad people and how bad they are. We never hear or see much humor or good about the people around us. It is because of the good people that I am writing. Most of the people in my book are based on actual facts and just plain make believe but I hope it gives my readers a better understanding and a few laughs along the way. The managers apartment is on the main floor of a four story building. The general layout of the building is the main floor which consists of our apartment, a laundry room, and maintenance area. The other three floors are apartments filled with the nicest everyday down to earth people and they seem to be very satisfied and happy. We are like one big happy family.
Author: Joe Beath Publisher: Thames & Hudson Australia ISBN: 1922754927 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 299
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Joel Beath and Elizabeth Price explore this question drawing inspiration from a diverse collection of apartment designs, all smaller than 50m2/540ft2. Through the lens of five small-footprint design principles and drawing on architectural images and detailed floor plans, the authors examine how architects and designers are reimagining small space living. Full of inspiration we can each apply to our own spaces, this is a book that offers hope and inspiration for a future of our cities and their citizens in which sustainability and style, comfort and affordability can co-exist. Never Too Small proves living better doesn’t have to mean living larger.
Author: Georges Binder Publisher: Images Publishing Group ISBN: 9781864700947 Category : High-rise apartment buildings Languages : en Pages : 0
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There are many books about tall buildings, but few focus on residential high-rises. Perhaps this is because they are traditionally not as tall as commercial high-rises. This book explores a selection of residential tall buildings from around the world, predominantly from North America and Asia.
Author: Kyle Schuneman Publisher: Potter Style ISBN: 0307952908 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 258
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In The First Apartment Book, Kyle shares brilliant design ideas and thirty simple DIY projects that show how anyone can infuse a first home with personality whether you're renting, moving in with a roommate or significant other for the first time, or are a newly minted owner eager to put your stamp on your place. The First Apartment Book is both a tour of amazing photographs from ten real homes across the country and a hardworking resource of great ideas. Kyle explains how each of the featured apartments achieves the perfect balance between cool design and the homeowner's lifestyle, with a sprinkling of influences from the resident's city thrown in. Kyle scours flea markets for functional pieces with personality and incorporates Pollock-inspired art and touches of taxicab yellow to make a small studio in New York City function as four different yet coherent rooms.o Graffiti-like dip-dye curtains and a skateboard table reflect a Seattle renter's hip sensibility. In Cleveland, Kyle creates a modern preppy space for a plaid-loving local using subdued colors and careful pattern mixing. A couple's salon-style hanging of rock posters in Nashville feels utterly unique, and Kyle's clever ideas for storing to store their musical instruments keep the duo sane. Short on time and long on style, the thirty DIY projects include no-sew pillows, yarn-wrapped picture frames, and a dresser update using a little glue and fabric. Full of bold, vibrant photos and hundreds of big ideas for small spaces, The First Apartment Book proves that no matter what your landlord, your floor plan, or your wallet says, there are no limits on how cool your first apartment can be.
Author: Laura Fenton Publisher: Gibbs Smith ISBN: 1423652541 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 430
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A comprehensive guide to small-space secrets and real-life solutions for living in 1,200 square feet or less. The Little Book of Living Small shows readers how to make the most of limited square footage—with grace and style—and serves as the cheerleader readers need to help themselves feel satisfied and proud of their choice to live with less. In addition to exploring both the motivation behind choosing to live in a small space, as well as the practical, everyday advice for managing a tight footprint, The Little Book of Living Small also includes case studies: 12 style-savvy, small-space dwellers open their doors and share their design secrets. Author Laura Fenton covers a range of homes including studio apartments, one- and two-bedroom houses, a tiny house, a co-living space, and even whole houses. Stylistically these homes range from urban, rural, minimalist, and country, with the unifying thread that they are all real homes of less than 1,200 square feet that offer clever solutions that readers can use in their own homes. Laura Fenton is the lifestyle director at Parents magazine. With more than fifteen years of experience, her work has appeared in major publications including Better Homes & Gardens, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and on leading home websites including Remodelista.com, HGTV.com, ElleDecor.com, HouseBeautiful.com, Refinery29, and elsewhere. Through her writing she has explored the topic of living small for more than a decade. She lives small with her husband, a photographer, and their son in Jackson Heights, Queens, in New York.
Author: Dominique Nabokov Publisher: Abrams Press ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 118
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Introduction by James Fenton Illustrated with 102 full-colour photographs, this sumptuous book presents a fascinating peek inside the living rooms of New York's rich and famous. The effect is satisfyingly voyeuristic and the stillness of the living rooms without their inhabitants is both unsettling and thrilling. Among the 70 living rooms featured are those of Elle McPherson, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, Philip Glass, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Ed Koch, Quentin Crisp and the Rev Al Sharpton.
Author: Felice Cohen Publisher: Dividends Press ISBN: 1500657859 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 142
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Could you live in an apartment with 90 square feet of floor space, the area approximately the same as a Honda Accord? Could you do it for five years? And could you be happy? Felice Cohen could. And she was. A YouTube video of her astonishing use of space went viral with millions of hits. She has heard from people around the globe, many requesting the outlines of her methods. Felice's highly organized approach, gleaned from more than 20 years as a professional organizer, prepared her for the challenge of a tiny space, smack in the middle of Manhattan, where the city itself became her "extra rooms." 90 Lessons for Living Large in 90 90 Square Feet (...or more) is a "want to" guide on how to "live large" in any size space, the message being: eliminate clutter and focus on the things that matter. Whether you live in 90 or 9,000 square feet, this book will be of real practical and immediate value.
Author: Paul B. Preciado Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 1635901138 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 265
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A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. “My trans condition is a new form of uranism,” he writes. “I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system, shouting in front of you. I am a uranist confined inside the limits of technoscientific capitalism.” This book recounts Preciado's transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., but it is not only an account of gender transitioning. Preciado also considers political, cultural, and sexual transition, reflecting on issues that range from the rise of neo-fascism in Europe to the technological appropriation of the uterus, from the harassment of trans children to the role museums might play in the cultural revolution to come. An Apartment on Uranus is a bold, transgressive, and necessary book.
Author: Nikhil Rao
Author: Nikhil Rao
Author: Hazel Easthope
Author: Veda Taylor Strong
Author: Joe Beath
Author: Georges Binder
Author: Kyle Schuneman
Author: Laura Fenton
Author: Dominique Nabokov
Author: Felice Cohen
Author: Paul B. Preciado