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1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Book Cover ; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The background ; The aims and method ; The essays ; I; II; III; IV; Conclusion; References; Part I ; 1 A convenient place to get rid of inconvenient people: the Victorian lunatic asylum* ; Capitalism and the transformation of society ; 'Lunacy reform' ; Designing the purpose-built asylum ; 'Monasteries of the mad' ; Notes and references ; 2 The modern hospital in England and France: the social and medical uses of architecture ; The hospital and its alternatives |
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The secularization of the hospital The motives for eighteenth-century hospitals: instruments for moral cure ; 'Objects of repulsive awe': the design of English eighteenth-century hospitals ; Doctors in hospitals ; The triumph of professionalism: the pavilion plan ; eth century ...; Notes and references ; 3 Design and reform: the 'separate system' in the nineteenth-century English prison ; The background ; The separate system adopted ; The architecture of separation ; The public image ; The prisons transformed ; Notes and references ; Part II ; 4 The Hindu temple in south India* |
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The ethnoenvironment The Hindu religious tradition ; The temple complex of Madurai ; Changes in the south Indian urban temple ; A modern Hindu temple ; Temple patronage and the power of the deity ; The temple, the neighborhood and the city ; Conclusions; Notes and references ; 5 The apartment house in urban America ; Social segmentation as organizing principle in American life: the cities ; The social map of apartment houses: five basic types of dwelling ; Summary: the popular ideology of who is housed apart ; Notes and references ; Part III |
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6 A time for space and a space for time: the social production of the vacation house Differentiation and specialisation as characteristics of industrial capitalism ; The 'country cottage' ; The emergence of the 'week-end' ; The bungalow and weekend country cottage ; The contemporary vacation house ; Conclusion; Notes and references ; 7 Places of refreshment in the nineteenth-century city ; The provision for eating and drinking in the 1860s ; The development of the restaurant ; The evolution of mass catering 1870-1914, and its impact on the public house ; Conclusion; Notes and references |
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8 Office buildings and organisational change An agenda for research ; A method for this chapter ; Three contrasted cases ; Conclusion; Notes and references ; Part IV ; 9 Vernacular architecture and the cultural determinants of form ; Introduction; Vernacular architecture ; Culture; Culture and vernacular design ; Form; Effects of broadening the sample ; The purposes of the built environment ; Conclusion; References; Contributors; Francis Duffy ; Adrian Forty ; John Hancock ; Anthony King ; Susan Lewandowski ; Amos Rapoport ; Andrew T.Scull ; Robert Thorne ; Heather Tomlinson ; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture and society.
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Architecture -- Environmental aspects.
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Architecture and society
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Architecture -- Environmental aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
King, Anthony D
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| ISBN |
0710202342 |
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9780710202345 |
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0203480759 |
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9780203480755 |
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9786610405367 |
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6610405360 |
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