Housing, Culture, and Design

A Comparative Perspective

Setha M. Low, Erve Chambers, Setha M. Low, Erve Chambers

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780812281200
• eBook ISBN: 9781512804287
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture Criticism

This book originates in two symposia held during 1985 at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Environmental Design Research Association.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part One. Culture As a Political and Economic Structure: Community Culture, Neighborhood Politics, and Housing Policy
• Introduction
• 1. Housing and the Material Basis of Social Reproduction: Political Conflict and the Quality of Life in New York City
• 2. Politics, Culture, and the Built Form: User Reaction to the Privatization of State Housing in South Africa
• 3. Housing and Culture for Native Groups in Canada
• 4. Culture, Policy, and Production: Making Low-Cost Housing in Sri Lanka
• 5. Gentrification: The Redefinition of Urban Neighborhood
• Part Two. Culture as a Cognition: Perception, Pattern, and Spatial Structure of Housing
• Introduction
• 6. Translating Anthropological Concepts into Architectural Practice
• 7. "Cultural Space" as a Needed Research Concept in the Study of Housing Change: The White Pueblos of Andalusia
• 8. The Architecture of Nomadism: Gabra Placemaking and Culture
• 9. Behavior in the House: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Using Behavior-Setting Methodology
• 10. Residents' and Outsiders' Perceptions of the Environment
• Part Three. Culture As a Meaning System: Cultural Meanings Of Home, House, and Family
• Introduction
• 11. House, Home, and Identity in Contemporary American Culture
• 12. Getting Respect in the Kandyan Highlands: The House, the Community, and the Self in a Third World Society
• 13. Architecture as a Medium for Culture: Public Institution and Private House
• 14. Domestic Privacy: Gender, Culture, and Development Issues
• Part Four. Culture as Interpretation: Tradition, Housing Development, and Design
• 15. Dual Aspects of Tradition in Saudi Arabian Urban Housing Development
• 16. Contextual Transformations of Traditional Housing in Kabul, Afghanistan
• 17. Vernacular Architecture as an Expression of Its Social Context in Eressos, Greece
• 18. Cultural Implications of Housing Design Policy in India
• 19. Progressive Development and Cultural Factors in Low-Cost Housing in Bogotá, Colombia
• Contributors
• Index