Living over the store
Subtitle: architecture and local urban life
By: Howard Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415783163; 9780415783170; 9780203609590
Subjects: Shophouses; City and town life
Other titles: Architecture and local urban life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A quintessential urban building; title: The shop/house as a global phenomenon. Shophouses of Asia; title: The shop in the palazzo : Rome, southern Europe and beyond; title: Merchants' houses of northern and western Europe; title: From London to Main Street; title: The fabric of everyday life. Living and working in the city; title: The geography of mixed uses; title: Adaptable buildings and flexible economics; title: The architecture of hybrid types; title: The death and life of the modest shop/house. The gradual separation of family and business; title: The building culture of the divided city; title: Toward a resilient urbanism; title: Conclusion. Hybrid urban practice.