Author : Nicola Barber
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778735427
Describes where people live-in houses in the suburbs, in apartment buildings, in shanty towns, and more. Detailed photography shows what their homes are made from, what they look like inside, and how buildings can be affected by extreme temperatures, earthquakes, and hurricanes.--From publisher description.
Author : Sian Smith
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1406269131
This book takes a simple look at city homes around the world, highlighting the diversity of homes that people live in. Homes featured include houses in Tokyo, US city apartments, UK terraced houses, and many more. Throughout the book, simple levelled text supports bright and engaging photographs, and the book also includes a picture glossary of difficult and important words, and notes for parents and teachers with advice on how to use the book.
Author : Faith Fowler
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781942011750
Looking at tiny homes as a model for providing low-income housing, Tiny Homes in a Big City chronicles the building of Cass Community Social Services' tiny house community in Detroit, Michigan.
Author : Samuel Stein
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786636387
“This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn’t be more timely or urgent.” —Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world—the president of the United States—made his name as a landlord and developer. Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values and rising rents. Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.
Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1642831336
From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.
Author : Peggy Tully
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616890926
It is said that the history of modern architecture can be observed through the evolution of the single-family home. Over generations, each has hoped to improve on the last, rethinking and reinventing this seemingly simple building type. At certain historic moments in the discourse, new ideas about domesticity have given form to radically different configurations of home and community. Current emphasis on sustainability presents a unique opportunity to design affordable houses that respond to specific economic, social, and environmental challenges. In From the Ground Up editor Peggy Tully presents the results of an international competition to create new models for affordable high-performance green homes in urban residential neighborhoods. Developed for a vacant infill site in Syracuse's Near Westside, these ambitious projects offer an array of innovative designs that provide a new vision for once-vital urban residential neighborhoods and well-designed energy-efficient homes throughout the United States.
Author : Susan Purney-Mark
Publisher : American Quilter's Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Appliqué
ISBN : 9781574327311
From igloos to gingerbread houses and log cabins to Victorian manors, there is something in this quilt neighborhood for everyone. These Canadian authors present playful patterns of all sorts of dwellings, and they show you how to make a quilt or wallhanging featuring your very own home! Twelve wonderful projects offer a variety of techniques, sizes, and skill levels so that anyone, from confident beginner to advanced quiltmaker, can achieve success. Techniques include rotary cutting, template cutting and use, foundation piecing, applique, embroidery, and embellishments. General quiltmaking tips are also included.
Author : Douglas M. Frey
Publisher : Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9780615377216
"Douglas Frey is an architectural historian ... He recounts scholarly details about the houses and their architectural styles, but also offers a portrait of the earlier residents and the ideas and values that shaped their lives. The house histories, and the human stories they tell, are grouped chronologically ... Antebellum Heritage (1838-1851), Victorian Splendor (1867-1895), and Eclectic Revival (1899-1949)." From the bookjacket.
Author : Nicholas Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136752994
A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most
Author : Michael C. Kathrens
Publisher : Bauer and Dean Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780983863229
This important study documents the rich architectural heritage of Kansas City, a booming metropolis between 1880 and 1930. The grand houses built during this time are evidence of the importance of this midwestern metropolis, which once eclipsed cities such as Dallas, Atlanta, and Denver. The forty houses featured within this book were erected by the city's leading plutocrats, including newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, minerals magnate August R. Meyer, lumber baron Robert A. Long, grain merchant Herbert F. Hall., and oilman Ernest C. These men typically hired local architects, many of whom had received their training on the East Coast, but settled in Kansas City. Architects in the book include Henry F. Hoit, Louis S. Curtiss, Horace La Pierre, Edward B. Delk, Edward W. Tanner, and Mary Rockwell Hook--one of the first women to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Almost all of these houses were designed in the European and American revival styles prevelant throughout Western culture during this period, although they are distinguished by a midwestern sensibility. This survey will surprise and delight anyone interested in America's residential architecture during this time.
