Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415336208
,
9780203421406
Series Statement:
Housing, Planning and Design Series
Content:
This book considers the personal and subjective use of housing and the ways in which we express our private selves through and within our dwelling places
Note:
Cover -- Private Dwelling -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: Looking out and looking in -- Writing about housing -- What we are looking at -- Chapter 1: What is dwelling? -- Ambiguity on purpose -- The phenomenology of dwelling -- Private dwelling -- Transformation and tranquillity -- Chapter 2: Privacy: When dwelling closes in on itself -- Policy and subjectivity -- Approaching privacy -- Invasion and intrusion -- Chapter 3: A brick box or a velvet case? -- Enclosing and enframing -- Complacency -- Stability -- Chapter 4: Talking about houses -- Housing discourse and ordinary language -- What do we mean when we say ... dwelling? -- Dwelling, home and meaning -- Convention -- Chapter 5: Ripples: Sharing, learning, reaching out -- Accommodating others -- Plugging in -- Chapter 6: Want it, have it! -- The paradox of dwelling -- What are the limits of desire? -- Desiring dwelling and dwelling in desire -- Consumed by desire -- From desire to anxiety -- Chapter 7: Fear and the comfort of the mundane -- Room to panic -- Anxiety and the mundane -- Mundane comforts -- Chapter 8: Loss -- To animate: the soul of place -- Weighing the loss -- Getting over it -- Love or nothing: Kie.lowski's Three Colours: Blue -- Dwelling animates us -- Losing it all -- Conclusions: The stopping place -- Notes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version King, Peter Private Dwelling Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2004 ISBN 9780415336208
Language:
English
Keywords:
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