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The deeper meanings of housing

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The deeper meanings of housing
  • People's attachment to home: the house as a mirror of
    the self
  • Why personal territories are important
  • Grief and loss caused by eviction or forced relocation from housing
Dealing with density
  • Why we have to do something about our attachment to the quarter-acre block?
  • How we can overcome our dislike of higher density housing?
  • Ecological reasons for increasing housing densities
  • Social reasons for increasing housing densities
  • Factors that can make housing at higher densities successful.
Designing dwellings for the future
  • The healthy and sustainable house: the impact of house
    design on emotional and physical wellbeing
  • The not-so-empty nest: why did junior not leave home?
  • Working from home
  • Housing and neighborhoods designed for children
  • Housing designs for households from diverse cultures
  • Alternative housing forms: cohousing, ecovillages
    and intentional communities.
Retirement housing
  • Understanding the baby boomer issue in housing terms: what do the demographics tell us?
  • Who lives in retirement housing?
  • Why are there so many children there during the day?
  • How can we overcome the problems with much of our current retirement housing?
  • What do leading edge and best-practice retirement housing models have in common?
 
   
CREATING GREAT PLACES PEOPLE LOVE
PUBLIC SPACES FOR PEOPLE
WHAT IF CHILDREN MADE THE DECISIONS?
HOUSING FOR REAL PEOPLE
THE NOT-SO-EMPTY NEST
HOUSING FOR ALL CULTURES: CAN WE DO IT?
ECOLOGICAL HOUSING: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN?
WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG WITH MEDIUM DENSITY HOUSING?
THE HOUSE AS A MIRROR OF SELF
WORKING FROM HOME
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Generous support from Karl Langheinrich, Yollana Shore,
Kelvin Walsh, Andrea Cook,
Steph Walton, Anne Gorman,
Jacqui Bridson and Mikey Engstrom
is acknowledged with gratitude.
Photographs by Wendy Sarkissian, Andrea Cook, Nadia Carvalho,
Kelvin Walsh
and Christian Sprogoe.
Illustrations by Andrea Cook
unless otherwise credited.
Illustrations from
Housing as if People Mattered
are by Peter Bosselman and
Elizabeth Drake.
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