Building a House in Rural Romania Before and After 1989
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781527537095
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; History; Dwellings; Rural Housing; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Social & cultural history
Description: This book offers anthropologists, historians, and sociologists a starting point for research on the diversity that characterizes the Romanian rural architectural landscape in the communist and post-communist eras. It is the first contextual analysis of the legal framework for constructing privately owned houses during the Ceausescu dictatorship, including the changes due to the 1977 earthquake. The research is also intended to provide the social, cultural, and historical premises for the analysis of dwelling construction after the fall of the communist regime. It is also a book about the social.