| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 149 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Design and the built environment
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Design and the built environment series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index. |
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Includes filmography: page 145. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface: Retracing Our Steps; Acknowledgements: Standing Together; 1 Closed; 2 In and Around Dwelling; 3 From Machines to Mine; 4 The Confinement of Sense; 5 Hiding in the World; 6 Open; Coda: Out and back; Bibliography; Films; Index. |
| Summary |
Using innovative theoretical concepts, this book develops a new approach to looking at dwelling and how we use it. Combining philosophical analysis and literary and film criticism, it puts forward an innovative and insightful new approach to looking at housing and explores issues of exclusion, isolation, anxiety, privacy and the relations between parent and child. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Housing.
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Housing. |
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Housing -- Psychological aspects.
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Housing -- Psychological aspects. |
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Social isolation.
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Social isolation. |
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Social integration.
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Social integration. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: King, Peter, 1960- In dwelling. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008 9780754648703 0754648702 (DLC) 2007034126 (OCoLC)167498965 |
| ISBN |
9780754688105 (electronic book) |
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0754688100 (electronic book) |
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0754648702 (alkaline paper) |
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9780754648703 (alkaline paper) |
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