Housing Without Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Housing Without Houses write by Nabeel Hamdi. This book was released on 1995-05-01. Housing Without Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Its methods are targeted to housing production in places where resources are scarce, demand is high, urgency is acute, and where change and uncertainty are a way of life. The book shows that, under these conditions, efficient practice depends on methods that promote rather than hinder local action.
The Housing Bomb
The Housing Bomb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Housing Bomb write by M. Nils Peterson. This book was released on 2013-10-29. The Housing Bomb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How our thirst for more and larger houses is undermining society and what we can do about it. Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Jianguo Liu sound the alarm, explaining how and why our growing addiction to houses has taken the humble American dream and twisted it into an environmental and societal nightmare. Without realizing how much a contemporary home already contributes to environmental destruction, most of us want bigger and bigger houses and dream of the day when we own not just one dwelling but at least the two our neighbor does. We push our children to "get out on their own" long before they need to, creating a second household where previously one existed. We pave and build, demolishing habitat needed by threatened and endangered species, adding to the mounting burden of global climate change, and sucking away resources much better applied to pressing societal needs. “Reduce, reuse, recycle” is seldom evoked in the housing world, where economists predict financial disasters when "new housing starts" decline and the idea of renovating inner city residences is regarded as merely a good cause. Presenting irrefutable evidence, this book cries out for America and the world to intervene by making simple changes in our household energy and water usage and by supporting municipal, state, national, and international policies to counter this devastation and overuse of resources. It offers a way out of the mess we are creating and envisions a future where we all live comfortable, nondestructive lives. The “housing bomb” is ticking, and our choice is clear—change our approach or feel the blast.
Houses Without Names
Houses Without Names - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Houses Without Names write by Thomas C. Hubka. This book was released on 2013. Houses Without Names available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Hubka argues that even "vernacular architecture" scholars tend to embrace a model for understanding home forms that relies on iconic architects and theories about how ideas proceed downward from aesthetic ideals to home construction, even though this model fails to adequately characterize the vast majority actual homes that people live in, particularly in recent times after the widespread growth of suburban America. This controversial book proposes new ways to categorize houses"--
Housing Reclaimed
Housing Reclaimed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Housing Reclaimed write by Jessica Kellner. This book was released on 2011-10-04. Housing Reclaimed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This guide for nonconventional home builders provides inspiration for using salvaged and reclaimed materials to build affordable, environmentally friendly dwellings and offers case studies of projects meeting this challenge, including Phoenix Commotion, Haberae and Builders of Hope. Original
My Life in Houses
My Life in Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Life in Houses write by Margaret Forster. This book was released on 2014-11-06. My Life in Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’ So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.
