Suburban Space - The Fabric of Dwellings

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-520-23386-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 926 g

Renee Y. Chow offers an alternate vision to the conventional suburban housing that characterizes much of our domestic landscape. Her integrated, original approach to design sees the residential setting as a fabric of interrelated spaces that supports cultural diversity and change, promotes sharing in a setting, and sustains a more intense use of land. With its concise, informative text and abundant illustrations—including photographs and Chow's superbly executed drawings—Suburban Space challenges architects, landscape architects, developers, and planners to reconceptualize suburban housing.

Chow has made comparative studies of neighborhoods in Boston, Charleston, San Francisco, Levittown, 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 groundbreaking book demonstrates how one of the most disparaged yet common types of housing in the United States can become more environmentally and culturally viable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chow, Renee Y.

Chow, Renee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Wohngebäude
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One. Seeing the Suburbs as a Fabric
1. Beginnings of a Production System
2. Persistence of the Box
3. Defining Dwelling
4. Seeing Suburban Dwelling as a Fabric

Part Two. Designing Fabrics for Dwelling
5. Accommodating Choice
6. Sharing in a Setting
7. Unpacking
8. Designing Density

Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Renee Y. Chow is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and a principal of Studio URBIS.