Housing, Culture, and Design: A Comparative Perspective

Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part One. Culture As a Political and Economic Structure: Community Culture, Neighborhood Politics, and Housing Policy
Introduction
1. Housing and the Material Basis of Social Reproduction: Political Conflict and the Quality of Life in New York City
2. Politics, Culture, and the Built Form: User Reaction to the Privatization of State Housing in South Africa
3. Housing and Culture for Native Groups in Canada
4. Culture, Policy, and Production: Making Low-Cost Housing in Sri Lanka
5. Gentrification: The Redefinition of Urban Neighborhood
Part Two. Culture as a Cognition: Perception, Pattern, and Spatial Structure of Housing
Introduction
6. Translating Anthropological Concepts into Architectural Practice
7. "Cultural Space" as a Needed Research Concept in the Study of Housing Change: The White Pueblos of Andalusia
8. The Architecture of Nomadism: Gabra Placemaking and Culture
9. Behavior in the House: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Using Behavior-Setting Methodology
10. Residents' and Outsiders' Perceptions of the Environment
Part Three. Culture As a Meaning System: Cultural Meanings Of Home, House, and Family
Introduction
11. House, Home, and Identity in Contemporary American Culture
12. Getting Respect in the Kandyan Highlands: The House, the Community, and the Self in a Third World Society
13. Architecture as a Medium for Culture: Public Institution and Private House
14. Domestic Privacy: Gender, Culture, and Development Issues
Part Four. Culture as Interpretation: Tradition, Housing Development, and Design
15. Dual Aspects of Tradition in Saudi Arabian Urban Housing Development
16. Contextual Transformations of Traditional Housing in Kabul, Afghanistan
17. Vernacular Architecture as an Expression of Its Social Context in Eressos, Greece
18. Cultural Implications of Housing Design Policy in India
19. Progressive Development and Cultural Factors in Low-Cost Housing in Bogotá, Colombia
Contributors
Index