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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Detached Dwellings
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Detached America
Author: James A. JacobsPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813937620
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element in the cohesion of a greatly expanded middle class. These dwellings became the basic building blocks of explosive suburban growth during the postwar period, luring families to the metropolitan periphery from both crowded urban centers and the rural hinterlands. Detached America is the first book with a national scope to explore the design and marketing of postwar houses. James A. Jacobs shows how these houses physically document national trends in domestic space and record a remarkably uniform spatial evolution that can be traced throughout the country. Favorable government policies, along with such widely available print media as trade journals, home design magazines, and newspapers, permitted builders to establish a strong national presence and to make a more standardized product available to prospective buyers everywhere. This vast and long-lived collaboration between government and business—fueled by millions of homeowners—established the financial mechanisms, consumer framework, domestic ideologies, and architectural precedents that permanently altered the geographic and demographic landscape of the nation.
Detached Dwellings ... Country and Suburban
Author: American architectPublisher:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Housing in Postwar Canada
Author: John R. MironPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773506145
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Between 1945 and 1981 the Canadian population doubled, while the number of dwellings more than tripled. John Miron shows how changes in demographic structure and housing affordability affected postwar household formation and housing demand. He argues that no single explanation adequately reflects the extent of the impact of the demographic trends and the economic changes.
The Improvement of the Dwellings and Surroundings of the People
Author: Eng ManchesterMissing Middle Housing
Author: Daniel G. ParolekPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642830542
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.
The Improvement of the Dwellings and Surroundings of the People
Author: The Improvement of the Dwellings and Surrondings of the People: the Example of Germany
Author: Manchester. Citizens' Association for the Improvement of the Unwholesome Dwellings and Surroundings of the peoplePublisher:
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Category : Housing rehabilitation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Housing and Urban Development Legislation and Urban Insurance
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on HousingPublisher:
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Category : City planning and redevelopment law
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
Housing and Urban Development Legislation of 1958, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of ..., 90:2-
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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