Suburban Space
Subtitle: The Fabric of Dwelling
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780520233867
Subjects: Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Urban communities; Sociology - General; General; Architecture; Political Science; Suburbs; Architecture / General; Dwellings; History - General; Sociology - Urban; Design and construction; Housing development; Housing, Single family
First sentence: THE FIRST PART OF THIS BOOK QUESTIONS HABITS AND PROPENSITIES TO SEE AND DESIGN HOUSING as bounded sites-to make us aware of our tendencies to see the single-family house as distinct and separate from its setting.
Description: "Renee Y. Chow has made comparative studies of neighborhoods in Cambridge, Charleston, San Francisco, Levittown, and Radburn and housing by Rudolf Schindler and Irving Gill, as well as other residential settings. Her argument for a fabric of dwelling is founded not on generalizations about how people live, but on documented observations of the particular ways in which people organize their daily lives.

This ground-breaking book demonstrates how one of the most disparaged yet common types of housing in the United States can become more environmentally and culturally viable."--BOOK JACKET.