Main entry:

Schoenauer, Norbert, 1923-2001.

Title & Author:

6,000 years of housing / Norbert Schoenauer.

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, ©2000.

Description:

502 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-485) and index.
pt. I. Pre-Urban House. 1. Ephemeral or Transient Dwellings. 2. Episodic or Irregular Temporary Dwellings. 3. Periodic or Regular Temporary Dwellings. 4. Seasonal Dwellings. 5. Semipermanent Dwellings. 6. Permanent Dwellings -- pt. II. Oriental Urban House. 1. Ancient Civilizations. 2. Greeks and The Romans. 3. Traditional Islamic City and its Urban House. 4. Traditional Urban House in India. 5. Traditional Urban House in China. 6. Japanese Urban House in Kyoto -- pt. III. Occidental Urban House. 1. Dark Ages. 2. Middle Ages. 3. Age of the Renaissance. 4. Nineteenth Century. 5. Twentieth-Century Housing (1900-1950). 6. Twentieth-Century Housing (1950-2000).

Summary:

"Part architecture, part history, and part anthropology, this encyclopedic book limns the story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary agricultural societies to the present. Ancient urban dwellings were inward looking, ranged around a courtyard. Until fairly recently, these dwelling types survived in indigenous urban house forms in the Islamic world, India, China, and the Iberian peninsula and Latin America. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, however, outward-looking house forms replaced the ancient form in most of Europe and the New World.
In the Middle Ages houses served both as homes and as places of work, but gradually the domestic and business lives of the inhabitants became separate. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, profound changes in the residential development of the western world occurred: housing became segregated along socioeconomic lines and dwelling types polarized, with low-densisty, single-family houses at one extreme, and tall, high-density, multifamily temements and apartments at the other. Side effects of America's automobile-intensive suburban dream housing include inefficient land use, pollution, and urban decay. 6,000 YEARS of HOUSING chronicles how this came about, and suggests solutions based on a rich variety of historical precedents."--Back cover.

ISBN:

0393730522
9780393730524 (hardback)
9780393731200 (paperback)
0393731200 (paperback)

Subject:

Dwellings History.
Architecture, Domestic History.
Vernacular architecture History.
Habitations Histoire.
Architecture vernaculaire Histoire.
Architecture, Domestic.
Dwellings.
Vernacular architecture.
Domestic architecture History.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Six thousand years of housing

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213106
Call No.: NA7125 .S3 2000
Status: Available