| Description |
1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Series |
Home Series |
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Home Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- The Brick in Place -- Constructing the Story -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Building House as Home -- Home -- House as Home -- Building Home -- The Housebuilding Industry -- (Mis)understanding Home -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: A History of Bricks in the Building of the English Home -- A History of Brick Homes in England -- Working with Bricks -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Craft and the Graft -- How Homes are Built -- The Brickie -- Skills and Deskilling |
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Gender, Strength, and Bodies in Place -- Bodies Out of Place -- Rough Tough and Dangerous -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Owning Home: Homeownership and the Brick-Built House -- The Ideal Home -- The Home in Government Policy -- Home Ownership for Ontological Security -- Homeownership and the Presentation of Self -- Material Memories -- Home as Commodity: Rewards, Risks, and Restraints -- A 'Site of Authenticity'? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Material Meanings: The Social Life of Brick in Residential Housing -- Material Culture -- Material Meanings -- Strong and Stable |
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A Visual Bias? -- Comfortable and Cosy -- The Gap between Matter and Meaning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: A Sense of Place or a Sense of Space?: How the Brick Maintains a 'Traditional' Vision of English Suburban Housing -- Place -- A Suburban Sense of Place -- Planning a Place -- A Traditional Place? -- Mobile in Place -- Selective Tradition -- Embedded in Place -- A Sense of Space? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Building with Brick: An Assemblage -- The Post-Social Turn -- A Critical Assemblage -- Emerging Assemblages -- The Power Within -- A Flat Ontology -- Redundant Causation |
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Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion: Final Comments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Glossary -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Brick houses -- England
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Suburban homes -- England
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Place (Philosophy) in architecture -- England
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Brick houses
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Place (Philosophy) in architecture
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Suburban homes
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000900750 |
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1000900754 |
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