Format:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203609590
Content:
The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive account of this common but overlooked building
Note:
Intro -- LIVING OVER THE STORE Architecture and Local Urban Life -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction A quintessential urban building -- Part I: THE SHOP/HOUSE AS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON -- 1 Shophouses of Asia -- 2 The shop in the palazzo -- 3 Merchants' houses of northern and western Europe -- 4 From London to Main Street -- Part II: THE FABRIC OF EVERYDAY LIFE -- 5 Living and working in the city -- 6 The geography of mixed uses -- 7 Adaptable buildings and flexible economics -- 8 The architecture of hybrid types -- Part III: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE MODEST SHOP/HOUSE -- 9 The gradual separation of family and business -- 10 The building culture of the divided city -- 11 Toward a resilient urbanism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Davis, Howard Living over the Store Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415783163
Language:
English
Keywords:
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