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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Overview Multi-Unit Dwelling Housing Typologies -- Birmingham: Circa 1800 to 1880 Back-to-Backs -- London: Circa 1800 to 1880 London Tenement -- Paris: Circa 1850 to 1870 Haussmann Apartment -- New York: Circa 1880 to 1930 New York Tenement -- Hong Kong: Circa 1840 to 1960 Hong Kong -- Berlin: Circa 1920, 1950 and 1980 Perimeter Block, Linear Block, and Block-Edge -- Amsterdam: Circa 1990 to 2010 Solitaire and Perimeter Block |
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Beijing: Circa 2000 to Present Day Space-Enclosing StructureTokyo: Circa 2000 to Present Day -- Toronto: Circa 2007 to Present Day High-Rise Tower -- Image Credits -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
"This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied. The case studies presented offer an insight into why a certain housing type flourished in a specific city and the variety span across cities in the world where distinct housing types have prevailed. It also pursues how housing types developed, evolved, and helped define the city, looks into how dwellers inhabited their dwellings, and analyses how the housing typologies correlates in a contemporary context. The typologies studied are back-to-backs in Birmingham; tenements in London; Haussmann Apartment in Paris; tenements in New York; tong lau in Hong Kong; perimeter block, linear block, and block-edge in Berlin; perimeter block and solitaire in Amsterdam; space-enclosing structure in Beijing; micro house in Tokyo, and high-rise in Toronto."--Provided by publisher |
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Apartment houses.
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Architecture and society.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
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Apartment houses
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Architecture and society
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315641355 |
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1315641356 |
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